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I’ve just started watching Food Inc. and it inspired the following article to help explain how Open Empire deals with lifestyle choices like diet (but in the greater context of the act of killing itself, and thus a follow on from the previous blog article) … because the present system is almost completely agnostic (not to mention hypocritical and selectively blind) about killing other species, but people within it are financially motivated to encourage you to make choices with negative ecological, ethical and social consequences … yet no one takes responsibility for those consequences, and the ongoing burden is something nature cannot handle … not to mention that it involves unspeakable levels of cruelty to other sentient species whom are out distant cousins. Continue reading “Food Inc., veganism, and Open Empire”

The shortest possible AND most probable of success pathway to elimination of conflict, is the pathway in which scarcity of resources is minimised. Conflict perhaps cannot be eliminated entirely, but it is universally tied to the availability of internal and external resources, where internal resources include such things as self knowledge, love, psychological maturity and emotional well-being. Continue reading “Eliminating conflict”

Those of you who see me post on religious topics may notice that I refuse to use a capital G in that word, and that I always put it in quotes … and there’s a couple of reasons for this:

1. It’s a bullshit concept;
2. You can never get a straight answer from a believer about what they mean by it, because whatever answer they give, if seriously challenged, will be immediately changed so that (in their minds) you can never defeat their shifting goal posts … which is inherently dishonest & unworthy of respect.

Continue reading “The Ultimate Social Blackmail, aka “god””

I’ve had many people ask or comment about this, so I thought I’d write an article covering my reasons.

In life many people want to identify “goodies & baddies” and I’m guilty of this myself … but what we do with that identification doesn’t necessarily always help, many of our responses are either ineffectual or even downright harmful. Continue reading “Why the contentious usage of “empire” ( in Open Empire ) ?”

A few weeks ago, I wrote (as I occasionally do) to another random group I encountered. I do this in the hope that one day I’ll be pleasantly surprised by the response; a very low bar of expectation, yet one that continues to fail to be met. In this particular case, it was an Australian Meetup group of blockchain enthusiasts, and today I got the reply from that message. Continue reading “Why “putting a price on nature” will fail …”

When we use the word “value” in an economic sense, there’s typically 2 context in which we’ll be using the word:

1. This <item> has this $<amount> “value”, or;
2. This $<discount> or $<price> is great “value”.

… but these are both perceived values, and thus they differ from person to person; they’re nothing inherent about the nature of the item, they’re just artificially & arbitrarily attached numbers connected to pretty much nothing whatsoever. Continue reading “Perceived vs. inherent “value””

I’ve experienced something repeatedly, I’m hoping some of you can relate, and others will take note … particularly those in the position to change things. This thing, is poor customer service, and it is notorious in the IT sector particularly but not exclusively … So I’m going to explain an example which to me typifies the problem. Continue reading “What is the deal with all the crap customer service?”