Society
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The key to fixing our cities, to creating Strong Towns, is to treat them like complex, emergent systems capable of iterative change.
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Not only is a land value tax economically efficient, it offers a development pattern and taxation philosophy that nurtures vibrant communities.
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Society has become so politically-saturated that we’re now overdoing democracy. Here are a few reasons why it undermines our institutions.
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Individuals don’t make history but there are the “best of us” people, like Grant, who withstand the crushing pressures of their times.
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Hate groups have undertaken modern marketing practices to more effectively recruit—dressing up their message in more universal language.
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Bernie Sanders traffics in populist rhetoric, making muddled thinking about good intentions more important than sound policy.
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Transparency might appear to be a morally upright aim but it is just another way of controlling human beings and hereby, rather paradoxically, undermines morality.
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Consider an alternative political system which retains the same institutions of representative democracy but apportions power according to knowledge or competence.