Anthony Judge: Systemic Coherence of the UN’s 17 SDGs as a Global Dream

Cultural Intelligence

Systemic Coherence of the UN's 17 SDGs as a Global Dream
Rather than merely an arbitrary outcome of political horse-trading

Sections:
Transcending the apparent incoherence of the Sustainable Development Goals
Radical recursivity of cognitive implications of topology and geometry
Role of 17 2D tiling patterns in ordering SDGs?
Role of the 17-fold “wallpaper group” in ordering SDGs?
Cognitive operations potentially analogous to generation of tiling patterns
Higher dimensional coherence of SDGs implied by a set of 17 4-dimensional polyhedra?
Interrelationship of 17 SDGs modelled by 17 regular polyhedra in 4D
Archetypal cognitive confusion with strategic implications?
Distinguishing a domain of hyperreality as the appropriate SDG context?
Coherence of hyperreality through aesthetic intuition and embodied cognition?

Caitlin Johnstone: Capitalism Is A Misanthropic, Dystopian Religion

Cultural Intelligence

Capitalism Is A Misanthropic, Dystopian Religion

Capitalism is a misanthropic, dystopian religion. By “capitalism” I mean this or any other possible system wherein mass-scale human behavior is driven by the pursuit of capital. By “religion” I mean organized collective faith-based belief system.

In times past the dominant religions had names like “Christianity” or “Islam”, which were used to promote doctrines that shaped societies, dominated civilizations, and built entire empires. Theocratic institutions labored on behalf of the powerful to bend entire continents to their will, using narratives about beneficent invisible deities as cover. Nowadays the dominant religion is called capitalism, and the theocratic institutions are called governments, and the beneficent deity is called the invisible hand of the market.

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Matthew Ehret: For Victory Day: It’s Time to Think About Finally Winning WWII

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For Victory Day: It’s Time to Think About Finally Winning WWII

76 years ago Germany surrendered to allied forces finally ending the ravages of the Second World War.

Today, as the world celebrates the anniversary of this victory, why not think very seriously about finally winning that war once and for all?

If you’re confused by this statement, then you might want to sit down and take a deep breath before reading on. Within the next 12 minutes, you will likely discover a disturbing fact which may frighten you a little bit: The allies never actually won World War II…

Now please don’t get me wrong. I am eternally thankful for the immortal souls who gave their lives to put down the fascist machine during those bleak years… but the fact is that a certain something wasn’t resolved on the 9th of May, 1945 which has a lot to do with the slow re-emergence of a new form of fascism during the second half of the 20th century and the renewed danger of a global bankers’ dictatorship which the world faces again today.

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Matthew Ehret: Walter Gordon’s Cultural Engineering, Global Governance and Anarchism in Canada

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Walter Gordon’s Cultural Engineering, Global Governance and Anarchism in Canada
It is the purpose of this brief study to shed light upon a character that has played a powerful role in creating the current dynamic shaping the monetarist, ecological and anarchistic tendencies now activated among the land of “strong and free”. The name of this character is Walter Gordon.
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STEPHEN E. ARNOLD: The Addiction Analogy: The Cancellation of Influencer Rand Fishkin

Cultural Intelligence, Journalism/Free-Press/Censorship

The Addiction Analogy: The Cancellation of Influencer Rand Fishkin

Another short item. I read a series of tweets which you may be able to view at this link. The main idea is that an influencer was to give a talk about marketing. The unnamed organizer did not like Influencer Fishkin’s content. And what was that content? Information and observations critical of the outstanding commercial enterprises Facebook and Google. The apparent points of irritation were Influencer Fishkin’s statements to the effect that the two estimable outfits (Facebook and Google) were not “friendly, in-your-corner partners.” Interesting, but for me that was only part of the story.

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