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Post-truth politics is not just an expression of disregard for truth or an origin of false beliefs; it can also undercut our own faith in our capacity to distinguish between truth and falsehood...In this regard, it is similar to gaslighting.

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How to Bring More Permanent Good into Our Lives and the World Eric Hutchins In their efforts to create ideal communities, the ancient Greeks asked three basic questions: What is real; of the real, what is good; and how do we make more of the good? Generally [...]

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Delving into the systemic roots of capitalism contributing to the metacrisis, economic anthropologist Jason Hickel advocates for a revolutionary shift towards Democratic Ecosocialism, proposing the democratization of finance and production; universal access to essential services; and re-prioritizing well-being and ecology as the primary aims of the political economy.

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Farmers in urban civilizations have always been subject to powers beyond them. Indeed, there is ample evidence that urban civilizations were invariably built on the conquest and subjection of farming cultures. Our current food industry grew out of the defeat of farmers’ efforts in the late nineteenth century to win fair prices for their production.

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