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The longest line

Published in December 16th, 2024
Posted by in Philosophy
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Following WWII there was much psychological research into how otherwise ordinary people could commit such atrocities. The most famous experiment is probably the Milgram experiment in which people who told to administrate electric shocks to another person by an authority figure in a white lab coat. So imagine this: You are told that you are […]

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A duty to work

Published in December 16th, 2024
Posted by in Philosophy
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Occasionally, albeit rarely, I get a comment that one has a duty to work insofar one able-bodied vis-a-vis able-brained. This is a fairly complex comment which suggests either socialist or collectivist beliefs, that is, everybody has a duty to work and a right to eat in the sense that first and foremost people have a […]

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What permaculture and ERE have in common

Published in December 15th, 2024
Posted by in Early Retirement, Philosophy
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ERE has been compared to permaculture, but it is not really derived from permaculture. In fact I have only read two books on permaculture and until recently I had a black thumb and no experience at all with growing things. Of course what the two share is that they’re both based on systems thinking, which […]

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