Significance

Humans are inherently social creatures, forming societies in order to foster productive cooperation towards shared goals.

Original Content

• The Truth About Capitalism
• We Are Multi-Tribal
• Patterns of Human Cooperation
• Rebuilding Trust in Our Large Institutions
• Why Do We Call It Capitalism?
• The Devastating Tragedy of our Vanishing Middle Class
• Managing Our Identity Stacks
• The Widening Spiral of Modern Society
• Some Hard-Won Wisdom Concerning Cults
• Cooperation, Competition and Coercion
• Core Design Principles for Teams
• Have We Passed The Point of Maximum Useful Tech?
• Reframing our Debates about Capitalism
• An Appreciation for Whenever Kindness Fails
• Diving Back Into Our American Muddle
• Our Societal Disconnect
• An Appreciation for Apollo 11 - 2019 film
• Our American Class System
• Schembechler, Bacon and Leadership
• The System is Working Very Well, Thank You
• Violence at the 94th Academy Awards
• Can the US Become a Truly Egalitarian Society?
• An Appreciation for The Village Green Preservation Society
• The Issues Swirling around Spotify and its Content Providers
• Popping the Hood with the Notenik App
• Undoing Trumpism
• An Appreciation for Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Quotations

• All of us are trim tabs
• The American cult of the individual
• A beast or a god
• Capitalism as a Market Society
• Capitalism works best in societies where there are high levels of trust
• Ceremonies are designed to
• Chaos and Mediocrity
• The chicken experiment
• Civilization was a thin and precarious crust
• Cooperative communication
• Culture can be either mutualistic or predatory
• The economy is too important to leave to the economists
• The eternal struggle between good and evil
• Flexible cooperation with strangers
• Freedom of Judgment
• The freedom to enact other forms of social existence
• Frivolous and fanciful distinctions
• The great primeval contract of eternal society
• The group of people that you would both help feed and help defend
• If you'll just rattle your jewelry
• I'll take the big sordid dirty crooked city
• Individualized lifestyles deeply brutalizing to the human spirit
• Investing in other people's children
• It's the rich class that's winning
• Labor is the Superior of Capital
• The legitimate object of government
• Living in small groups has been baked into our psyches
• Many humans just don't like their families
• Mass Movements and Boredom
• Model II Decision-Making
• Model II Values
• My Life Belongs to the Whole Community
• Nurturance is a master variable
• The only thing that's constant there is other people
• The Opposite of Popularizing Economics
• Paradoxes rationally serve as tribal loyalty tests
• Peace with Justice
• People are finally finding out that the guy next door isn't a bad egg
• Power and Privilege have been amassed
• The Power of Stakeholder Capitalism
• Public morality
• Relationships among groups
• Small groups are a fundamental unit of human social organization
• Social resilience
• The Social Suite
• Societies are not merely statistical aggregations
• The stagnation of American middle-class living standards
• The systematic weaponization of the human Tribe Drive
• True Character
• Very large social units are imaginary
• We are what we pretend to be
• We have the capacity to envision a better future and make it a reality
• The welfare of the whole human race
• We Need a Place to Stand
• We need governments to provide clear pathways
• We vastly underestimate the impact of our immediate environment on our behavior
• What would a new social compact look like?
• When racial or religious lines are drawn by the State
• The yen to work drops in flat economies