Considering “The General Theory” of Lord Keynes V.2C There is an assumption in Classical Economics (CE) that savings today means consumption tomorrow, which ultimately means savings are economically significant and that it’s safe to assume they will contribute to a return to “market equilibrium” eventually. Keynes disagreed, arguing that we…

On Narrative History, Smith, Foote, Cushman, Proust, Faulkner, and Percy Thanks to George Santayana, it is said that those who don’t learn from history are failed to repeat it, a quote historians are quick to remind their history students (perhaps implying that they are possessors of some of the most…

Considering “The General Theory” of Lord Keynes V.2A …Cadell Last’s work on “Metasystem Transition Theory” in my opinion strongly speaks to a dialectic between creativity and energy as foundational to human civilization and its evolution. ‘Both energy and information as phenomena appear to fundamentally influence human system structure and also…

Framing Depiction Whether through painting, writing, speaking, etc., description is always an act of thinking of perception or itself, and hence description is inseparable from the first-person: psychology, philosophy, phenomenology, self-deception, and all the other workings of the human mind (that humans themselves often hardly understand). Description always reflects thinking…

The Epistemological, Intellectual, and Creative Primacy of Speech According to Jonathan Rauch …How might we sum up Deirdre McCloskey’s case? ‘[H]istroically unique economic growth on the order of a factor of ten or sixteen or higher, and its political and spiritual correlates, depended on ideas more than economics. …

Nature/Revelation, Revelating, and Failing Well If I say, “God cannot be known,” I have made a claim about God that I can only make if I know God; if I say, “God cannot be talked about,” I have talked about God; if I say, “The finite has no connection with…

On Louis Dumont and the Debate with Nicholas B. Dirks …As we learn from Louis Dumont, there is reason to think that people naturally think in hierarchies, and since they cannot easily rank what cannot easily be understood, it is natural, especially in regard to what is considered a practical…

On philosophy and the question of “use.” It can be hard to tell if philosophy is “useful,” because there seem to be ways in which ideas matter, but at the same time it can be hard to say how ideas are useful. Often, metaphorically, I think we associate the question…

It is not the case that only falsifiable ideas can be true, but that means we are vulnerable to manipulation, conspiracies, and the like — we need a new tool. Free speech is a space in which people can manipulate, hurt, insult, trick, and worse: if Iago, found in Othello…