~ A-N-IA-GOMRI-HTBAHM(CC)-OTIHD(RQD) ~ A – Nation – Is A – Gathering Of Many Rational Individuals – Held Together By A Heartfelt Mutuality (Concordi Communiione) – On Things It Holds Dear (Rerum Quas Diligit) ~ Augustine ~ City Of God ~ 426

~ WTIUT-MOTDOOT-HFITMITMSM-B-MTPRTBR? ~ Who Then Is Unaware That – Most Of The Doctors Of Our Time – Have Failed In Their Mission In The Most Shameful Manner – By – Making Their Patients Run The Biggest Risks? ~ Paracelsus ~ Liber Paragrahorum ~ 1527

~ FTPOELAOPWBITCBYABTS ~ For The Power Of Enclosing Land And Owning Property Was Brought Into The Creation By Your Ancestors By The Sword ~ Gerrard Winstanley ~ The True Levellers Standard Advanced ~ 1649

~ WMNWHO-HH-A-HH-T? ~ Why May Not We Have Our – Heaven Here – And – Heaven Hereafter – Too? ~ Gerrard Winstanley ~ The True Levellers Standard Advanced ~ 1649

~ S/P/N/B/S ~ Solitary / Poor / Nasty / Brutish / Short ~ Thomas Hobbes ~ Leviathan ~ 1651

~ WMRTT-WAFEMS-B-TPOS-L ~ We Must Renounce The Theory – Which Accounts For Every Moral Sentiment – By – The Principle Of Self-Love ~ David Hume ~ An Enquiry Concerning The Principles Of Morals ~ 1751

~ S-CSATWAAATRTHAIOA-J-OTC-ITMPTUTWE ~ Society – Cannot Subsist Among Those Who Are At All Times Ready To Hurt And Injury One Another – Justice – On The Contrary – Is The Main Pillar That Upholds The Whole Edifice ~ Adam Smith ~ The Theory Of Moral Sentiments ~ 1759

~ V-ITGS-A-V-TGD-OHS ~ Virtue – Is The Great Support – And – Vice – The Great Disturber – Of Human Society ~ Adam Smith ~ The Theory Of Moral Sentiment ~ 1759

~ ATDSM? ~ Among These Dark Satanic Mills? ~ William Blake ~ And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time ~ 1808

~ TIIER-OA-S-OHTBTRAFAOO-PI ~ The Idea Is Essentially Repulsive – Of A – Society – Only Held Together By The Relations And Feelings Arising Out Of – Pecuniary Interests ~ John Stuart Mill ~ Principles Of Political Economy With Some Of Their Applications To Social Philosophy ~ 1848

~ TBTSOP-WAFFH ~ To Be The Slave Of Pedants – What A Fate For Humanity ~ Mikhail Bakunin ~ Statism And Anarchy ~ 1873

~ IEITBLTT-BAHWO-TLOSAD-WHG? ~ If Everything Is To Be Left To The – Blind And Heartless Working Of – The Laws Of Supply And Demand – Why Have Governments? ~ Robert Ingersoll ~ Hard Times And The Way Out ~ 1878

~ SLA-ATIWWMPB-GB-T-BUGF-T-IL-A-MSTCB-THOH-A-THOWPINR ~ So Long As – All The Increased Wealth Which Modern Progress Brings – Goes But – To – Build Up Great Fortunes – To – Increase Luxury – And – Make Sharper The Contrast Between – The House Of Have – And – The House Of Want – Progress Is Not Real – And – Cannot Be Permanent ~ Henry George ~ Progress and Poverty ~ 1879

~ LOTJ ~ Law Of The Jungle ~ Rudyard Kipling ~ Jungle Book ~ 1894

~ CC ~ Conspicuous Consumption ~ Thorstein Veblen ~ The Theory Of The Leisure Class ~ 1899

~ MEOW ~ Moral Equivalent Of War ~ William James ~ The Moral Equivalent Of War ~ [Speech] ~ 1906

~ SC ~ Social Capital ~ Lyda Hanifan ~ The Rural School Community Center ~ [Annals Of The American Academy Of Political And Social Science] ~ 1916

~ TGLLSNTM-TAED-TLCCLO-A-STMAP ~ The Golf Links Lie So Near The Mill – That Almost Every Day – The Laboring Children Can Look Out – And – See The Men At Play ~ Sarah Cleghorn ~ The Golf Links ~ 1917

~ IAES-TP-COWD-IA-CIJ ~ In An Exact Sense – The Present – Crisis Of Western Democracy – Is A – Crisis In Journalism ~ Walter Lippmann ~ Liberty And The News ~ 1920

~ WWNHTCUWHLTRTROO ~ We Will Never Have True Civilization Until We Have Learned To Recognize The Rights Of Others ~ Will Rogers ~ The Illiterate Digest ~ 1924

~ ROG ~ Rules Of Generosity ~ Marcel Mauss ~ The Gift ~ 1925

~ MOO ~ Mechanisms Of Obligation ~ Marcel Mauss ~ The Gift ~ 1925

~ F-E-ISNW-CITO-BAS ~ Fortunately – Everything – Is Still Not Wholly – Categorized In Terms Of – Buying And Selling ~ Marcel Mauss ~ The Gift ~ 1925

~ TWCP-TSUTACATRBITMOTVCOWIWTKTT-A-LOPCUTMTHM ~ They Were Careless People – They Smashed Up Things And Creatures And Then Retreated Back Into Their Money Or Their Vast Carelessness Or Whatever It Was That Kept Them Together – And – Let Other People Clean Up The Mess They Had Made ~ Francis Scot Fitzgerald ~ The Great Gatsby ~ 1925

~ WTAOWINLOHSI-TWBGCITCOM ~ When The Accumulation Of Wealth Is No Longer Of High Social Importance – There Will Be Great Changes In The Code Of Morals ~ John Keynes ~ Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren ~ 1930

~ TMSCOOC-I-TFRFTWWP-A-TT-GDFIWWP ~ The Most Striking Contradiction Of Our Civilization – Is – The Fundamental Reverence For Truth Which We Profess – And – The Thorough-Going Disregard For It Which We Practice ~ Vilhjalmur Stefansson ~ Adventures In Error ~ 1936

~ TPY-TPWLO ~ The People Yes – The People Will Live On ~ Carl Sandburg ~ The People, Yes ~ 1936

~ HON ~ Hierarchy Of Needs ~ Abraham Maslow ~ A Theory Of Human Motivation ~ 1943

~ BT13A19C-OMSUTCITMCBST-TSDSBTSCV ~ Between The 13th And 19th Century – One May Sum Up The Changes In The Moral Climate By Saying That – The Seven Deadly Sins Became The Seven Cardinal Virtues ~ Lewis Mumford ~ The Condition Of Man ~ 1944

~ O-I-A-OL ~ Our – Institutions – Are – Organized Lovelessness – Aldous Huxley ~ The Perennial Philosophy ~ 1945

~ EB-C-LTLO-TC-TMTLO-TC ~ Even Before – Children – Learn The Language Of – The Classroom – They Mimic The Language Of – The Commercial ~ David Riesman ~ The Lonely Crowd ~ 1950

~ TSSWDFBO-TGIODTBLO ~ The Less Satisfaction We Derive From Being Ourselves – The Greater Is Our Desire To Be Like Others ~ Eric Hoffer ~ The True Believer ~ 1951

~ WMNC-D-W-D ~ We Must Not Confuse – Dissent – With – Disloyalty ~ Edward Murrow ~ [Television] ~ 09-03-1954

~ PS ~ Public Sphere ~ Jurgen Habermas ~ The Structural Transformation Of The Public Sphere ~ 1962

~ TRON ~ The Rule Of Nobody ~ Hannah Arendt ~ Eichmann In Jerusalem ~ 1963

~ C-S-R-D-UF ~ Comfortable – Smooth – Reasonable – Democratic – UnFreedom ~ Herbert Marcuse ~ The New Forms Of Control ~ 1964

~ WSO-A-AMM-EUA-AR-AC-O-AC ~ What Starts Out – As – A Mass Movement – Ends Up As – A Racket – A Cult – Or – A Corporation ~ Eric Hoffer ~ The Temper Of Our Times ~ 1967

~ TW-AI-A-NNNO-A-ATST-LT-WMC-P ~ Those Who – Announce Ideas – And – Not Necessarily New Ones – And – At The Same Time – Live Them – We May Call – Prophets ~ Erich Fromm ~ Prophets And Priests ~ 1967

~ MID ~ More Is Different ~ Philip Anderson ~ More Is Different ~ 1972

~ VE-CT-HWIAEO-T ~ Virtually Every – Commercial Transaction – Has Within Itself An Element Of – Trust ~ Kenneth Arrow ~ Gifts And Exchanges ~ 1972

~ IACSTAITKOS:TPOA-A-TPOE ~ In A Consumer Society – There Are Inevitably Two Kinds Of Slaves: The Prisoners Of Addiction – And – The Prisoners Of Envy ~ Ivan Illich ~ Tools For Conviviality ~ 1973

~ WT ~ Weak Ties ~ Mark Granovetter ~ The Strength Of Weak Ties ~ [Paper] ~ 1973

~ T-PEM-IICTBA-SM-ET-HBMPWT-RF ~ The – Purely Economic Man – Is Indeed Close To Being A – Social Moron – Economic Theory – Has Been Much Preoccupied With This – Rational Fool ~ Amartya Sen ~ Rational Fools ~ [Philosophy & Public Affairs] ~ 1977

~ TAON ~ The Age Of Narcissism ~ Christopher Lasch ~ The Culture Of Narcissism ~ 1979

~ NIMBY ~ Not In My Back Yard ~ Emilie Travel Livezey ~ Hazardous Waste ~ Christian Science Monitor ~ 6-11-1980

~ S-WW-ROC-NA-CTMOTC-BRA-MFAWWODK-B-WWHLSF-WCRTUMATTSOL-TOPWEAT ~ Someday – We Will – Regard Our Children – Not As – Creatures To Manipulate Or To Change – But Rather As – Messengers From A World We Once Deeply Knew – But – Which We Have Long Since Forgotten – Who Can Reveal To Us More About The True Secrets Of Life – Than Our Parents Were Ever Able To ~ Alice Miller ~ For Your Own Good ~ 1983

~ W-FS-MIPFPTAAWAIN-A-UFTTAAWAII ~ Well-Functioning Societies – Make It Possible For People To Achieve Agreement When Agreement Is Necessary – And – Unnecessary For Them To Achieve Agreement When Agreement Is Impossible ~ Cass Sunstein ~ Laws Of Fear ~ 2005

~ TTOTUC ~ The Tragedy Of The Unmanaged Commons ~ The Tragedy Of The Unmanaged Commons ~ Garnett Hardin ~ 1991

~ WAF-TR-O-TVOSSTCTF? ~ Which Arose First – The Regulations – Or – The Violation Of Societal Standards That Called Them Forth? ~ Paul Hawken ~ The Ecology Of Commerce ~ 1993

~ TIAH-IJNED ~ The Future Is Already Here – It’s Just Not Evenly Distributed ~ William Gibson ~ Fresh Air ~ [Radio] ~ 31-08-1993

~ TTOTA ~ The Tragedy Of The Anticommons ~ Michael Heller ~ 1998

~ FBOW-WRI-WAFTRI-O-FI-AAAL-TL-TA-WWUTATINRBGR-TI-T-SC ~ For Better Or Worse – We Rely Increasingly – We Are Forced To Rely Increasingly – On – Formal Institutions – And Above All On – The Law – To Accomplish – What We Used To Accomplish Through Informal Networks Reinforced By Generalized Reciprocity – That Is – Through – Social Capital ~ Robert Putnam ~ Bowling Alone ~ 2000

~ WSSEMWPAP? ~ Why Should Society Entrust Me With Power And Prestige? ~ Howard Gardner + Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi + William Damon ~ Good Work ~ 2001

~ TGFSHBEMSSAU ~ The Global Financial System Has Become Even More Short-Sighted And Unstable ~ David Korten ~ When Corporations Rule The World ~ 2001

~ LS-I-LE ~ Life Standards – In – Life Economy ~ John McMurtry ~ Value Wars ~ 2002

~ CWS ~ Celebrity Worship Syndrome ~ Hal Niedzviecki ~ Hello, I’m Special ~ 2004

~ ZOSA ~ Zones Of Social Abandonment ~ Joao Biehl ~ Vita ~ 2005

~ TTOTAOBUWWDNE ~ The Theater Of The Air Often Brings Us What We Do Not Expect ~ William Logan ~ Air ~ 2012

~ TEHR-UAU-FTL ~ The Establishment Has Remained – Unaccountable And Unchallenged – For Too Long ~ Owen Jones ~ The Establishment ~ 2014

~ AWRIITPATWGACAD? ~ And Whose Role Is It To Pay Attention To What Governments And Corporations Are Doing? ~ Yves Engler ~ A Propaganda System ~ 2016

~ EEIETSR ~ Exuberant Experimentation – Is Essential To – Social Resilience ~ Thomas Homer-Dixon ~ The Upside Of Down ~ 2006

~ WO-I/H/S-TT-WSHD-O-NE-EM-PI-A-OCAGA-ID? ~ Will Our – Incaution / Hubris / Stupidity – Transform Things – We Should Hold Dear – Our – Natural Environment – Engineering Marvels – Political Institutions – And – Our Culture And Great Art – Into Dust? ~ Thomas Homer-Dixon ~ The Upside Of Down ~ 2006

~ CO ~ ComplexOrama ~ Alvin Toffler + Heidi Toffler ~ Revolutionary Wealth ~ 2006

~ K-A-H-TSW-AW ~ Knowledge – About – How – The Social World – Actually Works ~ Daniel Goleman ~ Social Intelligence ~ 2006

~ GAND ~ Genes Are Not Destiny ~ Daniel Goleman ~ Social Intelligence ~ 2006

~ HC ~ Healthy Connections ~ Daniel Goleman ~ Social Intelligence ~ 2006

~ PC ~ Positive Contagion ~ Daniel Goleman ~ Social Intelligence ~ 2006

~ HH ~ Healing Healers ~ Daniel Goleman ~ Social Intelligence ~ 2006

~ HR ~ Healing Relationships ~ Daniel Goleman ~ Social Intelligence ~ 2006

~ SC ~ Social Consequence ~ Daniel Goleman ~ Social Intelligence ~ 2006

~ T-ET-TCD-NP-H-FW-TT-HS-IA-TEAS-M-LTATITOR-E-IEFA-CC-OWHMAIACW ~ The – Economic Theories – That Currently Drive – National Polices – Have – Few Ways – To Take – Human Suffering – Into Account – This Economic Attitude Seems – Mindblind – Lacking The Ability To Imagine The Other’s Reality – Empathy – Is Essential For A – Compassionate Capitalism – One Where Human Misery And Its Alleviation Carry Weight ~ Daniel Goleman ~ Social Intelligence ~ 2006

~ PMBWT-B-TWT-PB-IMTFG ~ People May Believe Weird Things – Because – They Want To – Perhaps Because – It Makes Them Fell Good ~ Lewis Wolpert ~ Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast ~ 2006

~ YAY-WATTTILMFTBSS ~ Year After Year – We Are Told That There Is Less Money For The Basics That Sustain Society ~ Cay Johnston ~ Free Lunch ~ 2007

~ WNHATDOEWTITMWSOP-TPRANT-ATINRTBTTAOTNH-JAFMSA ~ We Now Have Almost Three Decades Of Experience With The Idea That Markets Will Solve Our Problems – The Promised Results Are Not There – And There Is No Reason To Believe That They Are Over The Next Horizon – Just A Few More Subsidies Away ~ David Cay Johnston ~ Free Lunch ~ 2007

~ SAC ~ Sharing Anchors Community ~ Clay Shirky ~ Here Comes Everybody ~ 2008

~ PC ~ Peep Culture ~ Hal Niedzviecki ~ The Peep Diaries ~ 2009

~ O-ITRTTOAIYF-H-ITFTTWWOWTO-HIAVWISRU-H-P-A-AEIDOCTO ~ Optimism – Is The Recognition That The Odds Are In Your Favor – Hope – Is The Faith That Things Will Work Out Whatever The Odds – Hope Is A Verb With Its Sleeves Rolled Up – Hopeful – People – Are – Actively Engaged In Defying Or Changing The Odds ~ David Orr ~ Down To The Wire ~ 2009

~ IKONGRFATB-O-A-THF-B-IKALORTB-H ~ I Know Of No Good Reasons For Anyone To Be – Optimistic – About – The Human Future – But – I Know A Lot Of Reasons To Be – Hopeful ~ David Orr ~ Down To The Wire ~ 2009

~ WLIAAIW-FRABKA-A-FSFUU ~ We Live In An Age In Which – Familiar Restraints Are Being Kicked Away – And – Foundations Snatched From Under Us ~ Paul Kingsworth + Dougald Hine ~ Uncivilization ~ 2009

~ BACATI ~ Biology And Culture Are Thoroughly Interactive~ Antonio Damasio ~ Self Comes To Mind ~ 2010

~ TADWTO-C-F-MC-IOOOT-A-NAVGOAT-I-SDTE-IIAI-A-LTMF(ASM)FC ~ There Are Different Ways To Organize – Capitalism – Free-Market Capitalism – Is Only One Of Them — And – Not A Very Good One At That – It – Slows Down The Economy – Increases Inequality And Insecurity – And – Leads To More Frequent (And Sometimes Massive) Financial Crashes ~ Ha-Joon Chang ~ 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism ~ 2010

~ A-CH-NA-CT ~ A – Common Harm – Needs A – Common Tax ~ Paul Collier ~ The Plundered Planet ~ 2010

~ M-PI-FODL-A-COMIPAD ~ Mass-Produced Images – Fill Our Daily Lives – And – Condition Our Most Intimate Perceptions And Desires ~ Henry Giroux ~ The Mouse That Roared ~ 2010

~ TMC-D-C-TNP-B-T-A-SA ~ The Media Culture – Defines – Childhood – The National Past – Beauty – Truth – And – Social Agency ~ Henry Giroux ~ The Mouse That Roared ~ 2010

~ L-TU-MOF-CPDAB-TEOSARA-A-TCOTCI-ATP-AB-I-TS-OP-B-A-C-ADOT-CO ~ Long-Term Unemployment – Millions Of Foreclosures – Crippling Personal Debts And Bankruptcies – The Evaporation Of Savings And Retirement Accounts – And – The Crumbling Of The Country’s Infrastructure – Are Taking Place – As Billions – In – Taxpayer Subsidies – Obscene Profits – Bonuses – And – Compensation – Are Doled Out To – Corporate Overlords ~ Chris Hedges ~ Death Of The Liberal Class ~ 2010

~ T-S-S-P-IO-O-U-TIONOTSQ ~ The – Specious – Supposedly – Professional – Insistence On – Objectivity – Ultimately – The Importance Of Not Offending The Status Quo ~ Chris Hedges ~ Death Of The Liberal Class ~ 2010

~ WRHBFIWMFR-TWCTICU ~ We Remain Hypnotized By Flickering Images We Mistake For Reality – Those Who Control The Images Control Us ~ Chris Hedges ~ Death Of The Liberal Class ~ 2010

~ YANAG ~ You Are Not A Gadget ~ Jaron Lanier ~ You Are Not A Gadget ~ 2010

~ WSRO-G-O-T ~ We Should Reconsider Our – Growth-Only – Thinking ~ Tomas Sedlacek ~ Economics Of Good And Evil ~ 2011

~ IWABDTITCADC-ATAIT-WGE-THNCOTCPA ~ It Was A Bit Dishonest To Insist That Countries Adopt Democratic Constitutions – And Then Also Insists That – Whoever Gets Elected – They Have No Control Over Their Country Policies Anyway ~ David Graeber ~ Debt ~ 2011

~ SRHTOC ~ Social Relations Have Their Own Currency ~ Yochai Benkler ~ The Penguin And The Leviathan ~ 2011

~ D-RCTSTFOAPOV-B-I-WMAMEI-OOB ~ Democracy – Requires Citizens To See Things From One Another’s Point Of View – But – Instead – We’re More And More Enclosed In – Our Own Bubbles ~ Li Pariser ~ The Filter Bubble ~ 2011

~ TROTNGSR-A-TFOEE ~ The Rise Of The New Global Super-Rich – And – The Fall Of Everyone Else ~ Chrystia Freeland ~ Plutocrats ~ 2012

~ TTOBEI-I-TOTGHOSI-IBNITPPTAT ~ The Tragedy Of Bad Economic Ideas – Is – That Once They Grab Hold Of Society’s Imagination – It Becomes Nearly Impossible To Persuade People To Abandon Them ~ Thomas Palley ~ From Financial Crisis To Stagnation ~ 2012

~ TDC ~ Trickle-Down Cruelty ~ Henry Giroux ~ Twilight Of The Social ~ 2012

~ ITWCLCTM ~ Imprinting Things With Corporate Logos Changes Their Meaning ~ Michael Sandel ~ What Money Can’t Buy ~ 2012

~ WC ~ Warrior Cop ~ Radley Balko ~ Rise Of The Warrior Cop ~ 2013

~ DIBS? ~ Does It Benefit Society? ~ Julia Angwin ~ Dragnet Nation ~ 2014

~ NO-LU-CS-STDAAAT-W-C/P/H-A-R/S/A-CBDA-F ~ No One Who – Lives Under – Constant Surveillance – Subject To Detention Anywhere At Any Time Whose – Conversations / Proclivities / Habits – Are – Recorded / Stored / Analyzed – Can Be Described As – Free ~ Chris Hedges ~ Wages Of Rebellion ~ 2015

~ TD-WIASWALICE-FNIOOM ~ The Desperate – Whose Identities And Self-Worth Are Lost In Collapsing Economies – Fashion New Identities Out Of Myth ~ Chris Hedges ~ Wages Of Rebellion ~ 2015

~ PAWTBR-JNTFR ~ People Are Willing To Be Rebels – Just Not The First Rebel ~ Dean Burnett ~ The Idiot Brain ~ 2016

~ CICOCONCFOS ~ Commercial Incentives Can Often Crowd Out Non-Commercial Forms Of Sharing ~ Tom Slee ~ What’s Yours Is Mine ~ 2016

~ WHPTTLGADTRH ~ We Have Passed Through The Looking Glass And Down The Rabbit Hole ~ Kurt Andersen ~ Fantasyland ~ 2017

~ NWD ~ New World Disorder ~ Gary Lachman ~ Dark Star Rising ~ 2018

~ D-R-LSA ~ Decentralization – Reduces Large Structural Asymmetries ~ Nassim Taleb ~ Skin In The Game ~ 2018

~ P-T-PD ~ P-T-PD ~ Post-Truth – Political Discourse ~ Dale Beran ~ It Came From Something Awful ~ 2019

~ OGAOCT ~ Our Golden Age Of Conspiracy Theory ~ David Wallace-Wells ~ The Uninhabitable Earth ~ 2019