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Our Phony Economy:

With families the logic is the same. By the standard of the GDP, the worst families in America are those that actually function as families - that cook their own meals, take walks after dinner, and talk together instead of just farming the kids out to the commercial culture. Cooking at home, talking [...]

Oh Wendell Berry, will you marry me?
From Harper’s Magazine, Wendell Berry’s Faustian Economics

The general reaction to the apparent end of the era of cheap fossil fuel, as to other readily foreseeable curtailments, has been to delay any sort of reckoning. The strategies of delay, so far, have been a sort of willed oblivion, or visions [...]

Just wanted to drop a pointer to another great article in Harpers by Jeff Sharlet.
Through A Glass Darkly
I always appreciate and agree with what Sharlet reports about evangelical Christianity, but there’s something about his tone that is infuriating.
Probably it’s sentences like this:

His followers must be dupes, or saps, or fools, their faith illiterate, insane, or [...]

It’s been noted for a while that not only does Walmart act in a monopolistic way, but it also applies the same logic to it’s suppliers. What I never knew is that there is a term for this, called monopsony. Which is a case where there is only one Buyer facing many suppliers.
Being [...]

A pretty interesting article from Harpers on the possibility of the US military taking over the US. Within two paragraphs they agree that it is virtually impossible and then go on to have a very interesting discussion of the US Military.
One thing they talk about that I had never considered before is summed in [...]