Oh, dear. I got the exact opposite impression about Tuchman's mirror
when I read that book. I thought the 1300s were a time of coming
out of a stagnant social order into the modern age, with a kick from
the black death.
What happened with the famines and epidemics was that Europe's
I am wondering how many people within range of this have read
Jared Diamond's Collapse; how civilizations choose to succeed or
fail. There are plenty of examples of how societies chose to
survive. Usually it was by eliminating class structures and going
to a peasant, egalitarian
Check out these sites.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unifon
http://www.unifon.org/htm/unifon%20alphabet.htm
Then, ask me why we continue to use such a ridiculous system of
writing English. As the article says, no other language except
french and english are impaired by this idea some
Following up on my “why we call it Citizen’s Income” piece and
reactions to it and other ideas people have put across; I don’t
have any specific problem with anything anyone is saying. But I do
not think much is going to come of these discussions.
It is as I said; the people
There has never been a social policy without a social movement
capable of imposing it - Pierre Bourdieu, acclaimed French sociologist
‘Citizen’s Income Toronto’ was founded in 2007 to make a start at
building a new social movement. The idea of ending poverty by simply
ending it, by
