Collective Conscious

zun­guzungu: But the most impor­tant point, I think, is this: when we left the Oak­land Pub­lic Library, the last speaker’s last words (after mak­ing as clear as pos­si­ble to the crowd that we were march­ing to lib­er­ate Oscar Grant plaza from massed riot cops, and telling peo­ple who couldn’t be down for that to stay …

Polit­i­cal Ani­mal: This morn­ing, news con­sumers woke up to news that the Con­gres­sional Bud­get Office has found that the “top 1 per­cent of earn­ers more than dou­bled their share of the nation’s income over the last three decades,” while incomes have stag­nated for the work­ing classes. Much of this, the CBO found, is the result of con­ser­v­a­tive …

Why did evo­lu­tion give us sex­ual repro­duc­tion? Why does evo­lu­tion give us coop­er­a­tion? These ques­tions bug me today because the stan­dard expla­na­tions don’t make sense, don’t cover the whole ground in my mind. Coop­er­a­tion first. It seems strange that we would, as highly evolved beings etc., be absolutely unable to act with ratio­nal self-​​​​interest in even …