Hannah Arendt Was Right.

And She Hadn’t Even Seen the Internet. My latest field note about conditioning sparked more conversation than I expected. One thread kept coming back to the same place: Hannah Arendt, and her lifelong question of why ordinary people stop thinking. Hannah Arendt spent her life trying to understand how ordinary people become capable of extraordinary […]

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When Companies Become More Powerful Than States …

… And Nobody Asks the Question The West won the Cold War. Communism was defeated. Capitalism prevailed. That was the story we told ourselves in 1989 — and for a while, it felt true. Open markets, free trade, democracy and prosperity spreading hand in hand. Francis Fukuyama even declared it the end of history – […]

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