utilitarianism – Warp and Woof

Scarcity and Abundance

Everybody is talking about scarcity vs. abundance — the key to the whole discussion is not economics, but politics, and asking the right questions.

Meaning and Ideology

Ideologies may capture us for social reasons — they give us community — then we outgrow them. Is it time to try something new, and still meaningful?

Please Help Me, I Don’t Understand Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics deals with the “big” issues of economic policy, but isn’t it all just built on a house of cards? Too abstract to have real meaning?

Do We Care If We Are Alone?

Avi Loeb’s best-selling book, Extraterrestrial, asks the question: Do we care about our origins? And, explores some of the ethics of space travel. It’s about discovery! Remember Carl Sagan?