Winning Slowly

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  • 7.05: Chattanooga, China, and Subsidiarity

    Localism is great! …but it is no panacea.

    Show Notes

    We look at everything from American racial history to the differences between Chattanooga’s and China’s “local” internets.

    Stephen gesticulating wildly!
    Links
    • The New Sewer Socialists, Evan Malmgren, Logic

    • An alternate ending to the tragedy of the commons, Nadia Eghbal, on Elinor Ostrom’s Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action

    • Ostrom noticed there are many situations where common resources are allocated efficiently, without intervention from the market or state. She explores, through a series of case studies, why this occurred, and under what conditions we could recreate these situations.

      Music
      • Bali” by Ryan Dugré
      • “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho.
      • Sponsors

        Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors:

        • Daniel Ellcey
        • Jake Grant
        • Jeremy W. Sherman
        • Marnix Klooster
        • Nathaniel Blaney
        • Spencer Smith
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          36 min
        • 7.03: Ari Wallach

          An interview with the founder of Longpath about his vision for the future and trans-generational ethics.

          Show Notes

          We chat with Ari Wallach of Longpath about his vision for the future and the importance of trans-generational ethics. (There’s obviously a lot we both find valuable and disagree with here… keep your ears open for reflection on some of those differences in the future!)

          Corrigenda

          Buckminster Fuller didn’t invent the trimtab—but he did invent the metaphor of the social aspects of trimtab!

          Links
          • Forget short-termism: it’s time to think longpath
          • Our longpath future
          • “Faithful extension” – Evolution and the Fall, Cavanaugh and Smith, and Chris’ review of the same
          • Ari’s TED talk: 3 Ways to Plan for the Very Long Term
          • epigenetics and mitochondrial DNA
          • Auburn Theological Seminary (notably, a seminary with wildly different theology from our own!)
          • Theodor Adorno
          • Max Horkheimer
          • Jürgen Habermas
          • Karl Marx
          • Frankfurt School
          • Freud
          • Friedrich_Nietzsche and “God is dead”
          • UC Berkley
          • Buckminster Fuller
          • Peter Schwartz and Stewart Brand, and their Global Business Network
          • Peter Gabriel and Brian Eno
          • transhumanism and singularitism, the religions of SV
          • Moore’s Law
          • analogy to “interventions” from epidemiology – e.g. hand-washing
          • neuroplasticity
          • blockchain, monorails, jetpacks
          • trim tab
          • “stay woke”
          • Hermann Hesse
          • Soto Zen tradition
          • yurts
          • yeshiva model
          • WeWork
          • telos
          • Exodus narrative
          • longpath.gather
          • Future Congress
          • Music
            • ”First Do No Harm” by Kazyak
            • “Winning Slowly Theme” by Chris Krycho.
            • Sponsors

              Many thanks to the people who help us make this show possible by their financial support! This month’s sponsors:

              • Daniel Ellcey
              • Jake Grant
              • Jeremy W. Sherman
              • Marnix Klooster
              • Nathaniel Blaney
              • Spencer Smith
              • If you’d like to support the show, you can make a pledge at Patreon or give directly via Square Cash.

                Respond

                We love to hear your thoughts. Hit us up via Twitter, Facebook, or email!

                49 min

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