Thoughtlets
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Thoughtlets .i.
Self-help books are written by people offering guidance and advice to others, so in which sense are self-help books SELF help? Continue reading
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Myopia.
Sometimes we’re so pre-occupied by nurturing grudges with our enemies, we fail to notice opportunities for friendships. Continue reading
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Struggle.
For many, getting through the day is like being a mole on asphalt. Continue reading
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Tragedy of the Commons. Hardin
If you’ve never read Garrett Hardin’s “Tragedy of the Commons” (1968), let me recommend it as worth having under your belt. (6 pages) https://www.hendrix.edu/uploadedFiles/Admission/GarrettHardinArticle.pdf Roughly, Hardin describes how rational individuals acting in their own self interests will deplete a shared resource at the expense of a collective’s interests. Hence a hurdle to collective action problems, Continue reading
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Hobbes on Consensus
If ‘x’ is true, then ‘x’ is true independently of whether one man [sic] or all men believe ‘x’ is true. But no one man’s reason, or the reason of any one number of men makes the certainty, no more than an account is therefore well cast up, because a great many men have unanimously Continue reading
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