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The Loss of Democracy in America
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. For many years, I thought with all the patriotic bluster of…
Sep 20
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Back on the Missouri
In April, after wintering in the middle of North Dakota, right before the river turns and heads due west, the intrepid Lewis and Clark expedition headed…
Sep 15
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Heisenberg Agonistes: Progress
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. Long ago, I quit reading philosophy – credit or blame…
Sep 12
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A Funny Story About Fossil Fuels, Economics, and Politics
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. Back long ago, when I was doing energy work, I worked with…
Sep 6
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R.I.P Labor
Link Wray, Shawnee American, creator of one of rock and roll’s great sounds, one of the coolest cats to ever prowl a stage. What we consider labor, and…
Sep 4
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August 2023
Land Reform
The journals of Lewis and Clark regale with one of the great tales of American history. As with all American history, it’s filled with contradictions…
Aug 30
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Give the People What They Want
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. I don't talk much these days about what passes for politics…
Aug 24
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Mother Sinead
Death has a way of focusing the mind, especially if it’s someone who for no good reason slipped long ago from your conscious. The last couple weeks…
Aug 23
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Wiener & Shannon: Toward a Politics of Information (III)
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. (Continued from II) Wiener correctly foresaw information…
Aug 20
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Wiener, Shannon, & the Politics of Information (II)
Thank you for reading Life in the 21st Century. Please share this post. (Continued from I) Wiener sets our contemporary technological revolution in an…
Aug 19
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Wiener & Shannon: Toward a Politics of Information (I)
A couple decades ago, the term Information Age was bandied about to define our new technological era, not so much anymore. Maybe, unlikely as it…
Aug 17
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The More Things Change
Life in the 21st Century is a reader-supported publication. Please become a paid subscriber. What's amusing, you need a good stomach, is in the last…
Aug 8
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