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Horizon at End Times

Carson McWhirter – HET Ep.34

Join Carson McWhirter and friends in Sacramento for a good and hearty chat on the law, the economic madness, and the changes to come in the world that we can only project from our current time. Grab Carson’s music at carsonmcwhirter.bandcamp.com.

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Horizon at End Times

Rus Archer Ep.33

Rus Archer returns to Horizon at End Times and we talk about economics and existence as economic humans. Having recently returned from an extensive period of travel, he, like many, face the state of music and being a musician with a different attitude. Perhaps the constant striving of becoming is unnecessary to live a creative […]

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Philosophy Political Economy

Everybody Deserves Gentrification

Housing isn’t any kind of crisis right now, it’s wealth disparity Your house, your tent in the city, your apartment in the sky, your manor and estate on the hill, your cottage and farm in the country — or whatever place you call home — is treated like a commodity, a raw material for the new digital […]

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Philosophy Political Economy

On Being in Economics

Featured Image by Jax Ko A Philosophical Foundation for the Critique of Capitalism Everything in the world that is bought and sold using currency can be defined by its market in the economy. Every aspect of life is commodified for the marketplace, from drinking water to wiping our ass. How we sleep, what we eat, […]

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America Political Economy

The Cognitive Dissonance of Midterms 2014

Midterms 2014 point to America’s cognitive dissonance. We statistically hate congress more than Obama, yet the congress that has been selected leads right back to the policies that we voted against this year. In three states, voters simultaneously unseated democratic senators and pushed forward democrat labor policy: a minimum wage raise. Arkansas, Alaska, and South […]