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“Whereas traditional reductionism sought to find the commonality underlying diversity in reference to a shared substance, such as material atoms, contemporary systems theory seeks to find common features in terms of shared aspects of organization.”

Book:The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time

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The Systems View of the World: A Holistic Vision for Our Time

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Ervin Laszlo

Ervin Laszlo is a renowned philosopher born on May 12, 1932. His research spans across systems theory, philosophy, futurology, and interdisciplinary studies. Laszlo is known for his work on complex systems and his profound insights into the future of the world. more

“So the next time you peer into the open window of a Web browser, you might ask yourself: where does "the network" end? Does it cease with the virtual worlds, images, and minds of the Internet, or with the silicon-electronic matrix of computing devices, or with the electrical grid that powers the show with energies extracted from waterflow and toxic atom? Perhaps the network extends further—to the Jacquard looms and American war machines that loosened the historical dynamic that eventually stuck a magic toxic tablet in your hands, to the billionfold packet-switching meshwork of human neurons that shape and submit to information space, to the capital flows that animate the quick hands of young Filipinas who wire up semiconductors for dollars a day. As you contemplate these widening networks, they may alter the granularity and elasticity of the self that senses them, as well as changing the resilience and tenderness of the threads binding that self to the mutant edge of matter and history. I suspect there is no end to such links, and that this immanent infinity, with its impossible ethical call, makes up the real World Wide Web.”

Technology Systems Theory Philosophy Of Technology

Author:Erik Davis

“No politician or party favours waste and inefficiency, and every government tries to reduce both--but tax cuts on the promise of ending the gravy train almost never find enough gravy. Of course efficiency matters, waste must be attacked, and of course it matters how both taxes and spending are organized, but despite the highly publicized incidents of misspending that seem to dominate the pages of our mainstream media and disproportionately shape our perceptions, the numbers about waste never add up, and the consequences of tax cuts on public goods and services are always worse than promised.”

Taxes Tax Cuts Gravy Train

Book:Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word: A Different Take on Taxes in Canada

Source: Tax Is Not a Four-Letter Word: A Different Take on Taxes in Canada

“Neoliberalism is not just about tax cuts. It relies on a suite of mechanisms to manifest its 'free market' of optimum conditions for business.”

Business Free Market Tax Cuts Neoliberalism

Book:On Fairness

Source: On Fairness

“Take a typical three-hundred-million-dollar CMO. It would be divided into three tranches, or slices of a hundred million dollars each. Investors in each tranche received interest payments. But the owners of the first tranche received all principal repayments from all three hundred million dollars of mortgage bonds held in trust. Not until first tranche holders were entirely paid off did second tranche investors receive any prepayments. Not until both first and second tranche investors had been entirely paid off did the holder of a third tranche certificate receive prepayments.”