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January 2025

Where I've Been, Where I'm Going ... 2025 Edition
A few principles and plans for the future.
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What's Wrong with Voluntaryism, Part 2
Systemic coercion is as much a fact as gravity, and corporations (not just governments) use it every day!
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What's Wrong with Voluntaryism? Part 1.
What is Voluntaryism? Can it solve the problems of civilization?
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Notes on Homelessness, Neoliberal Economics, and Other Things.
Preliminaries to decisions about the future: ours (family level), and our world's (civilization level).
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15 Predictions for 2025
“The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.” —Paul Valéry
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December 2024

Three Existential Threats to Civilization at the End of 2024. (Part 4)
This is the worst and most nightmarish of the three. Reader discretion advised....
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Three Existential Threats to Civilization At the End of 2024 (Part 3)
Public debt collapses economies and could presage the near-future’s next big attempted power grab.
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Three Existential Threats to Civilization at the End of 2024 (Part 2)
Public immiseration and the path to violence; thwarted aspiring elites and dissidents become counter-elites; the danger of the narrative war is state…
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Three Existential Threats to Civilization at the End of 2024 (Part 1)
Not woke ideology, or Democrats. Not Russia, not China. Not climate. These are worse, one by magnitudes.
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November 2024

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