You’ve probably heard these two words and like a lot of people might struggle to differentiate between them, so I’d like to offer you a reasonably quick ( and relevant I think ) analogy between the various flavours of authoritarian capitalism, and the Open Empire Foundation vision. Continue reading “Thought for the Day: Ethics vs. Morality”
Social behaviour modification & censorship
author’s note
I found an old screen-capture image I’d taken from Facebook a few years ago, and it inspired me to write this post, which discusses how an alternate economic framework, based on consequences rather than property, would deal with such things as censorship, societal values, and moderation of behaviour.
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New post categories
author’s note
The categories didn’t import properly from the old website, so it will take me a while to recategorise all the posts, along with the rewriting of old articles.
Along with these changes, I’ve decided to modify the categories to make it easier for you to find what you’re looking for … the categories are as follows: Continue reading “New post categories”
Why would people work if they get everything free?
introduction to the question
A friend of mine on Facebook just posted:
People just want a place to chill and sleep, food and to have a good time, but we have created this maze of insanity and control writing fictions on papers channeling most of our energy and efforts into creating even more of it. ~ Andrew Osagie
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Another reason to love The Matrix
I’m a huge fan of cinema, and sometimes there’s a movie I can keep watching and never get tired of it … The Matrix is one of these.
In the first movie, Neo pulls a book off his shelf, in which he hides the contraband he sells. The book is titled: Simulacra and Simulation – and the following is an excerpt taken from its Wikipedia page of that book ( which I’m now thinking I’d like to read in full ): Continue reading “Another reason to love The Matrix”
“Job Creator” – title of the wealthy but otherwise talentless.
Thought for the Day: #JobCreators
If you’re the kind of person who uses this title “job creator” about yourself, then you’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel of talentlessness … because let’s face it, anyone with any real skills – a mechanic, painter, architect, musician, or whatever – may very well create jobs as a by-product of what they do, but that’s just it … it’s a by-product, and nothing really worth mentioning; they’re not going to say “I’m a job-creator”, they’re going to say “I paint frescos”, or “I fix prestige motor engines”, or “I perform neurosurgery”.
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Update: March 13, 2017 #3 – top and first level menu pages finished
I may have some edits to do that I have missed, and these will certainly be further updated over time … but for now, I am happy with all the top and first level main menu items on the blog.open-empire.org subdomain. Continue reading “Update: March 13, 2017 #3 – top and first level menu pages finished”
Update: March 13, 2017 #2 – blog homepage rewritten, and main menu restructured
Ok. The home page of the blog.open-empire.org subdomain is now rewritten, so that it gives a navigation overview of the menu items to tell you what you’ll find on each page.
[ PLEASE NOTE ] the menu items it’s referring to haven’t been rewritten yet, but I’ve described what will be on them once they’re done ( some of it is there already ).
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Update: March 13, 2017 – main root domain pages finished
All the pages from the main menu links on the root domain site ( meaning open-empire.org – not this blog.open-empire.org subdomain site ) are settled for now … although I do want to come up with a replacement image for a couple of placeholders, but there’s no urgency for that. Continue reading “Update: March 13, 2017 – main root domain pages finished”
Update: March 12, 2017 – footers, new home, more tags & more!
Quite a few things achieved in the last 24 hours:
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