Our world has a lot of problems, but one stands out – because it is the root of so many others. I would go so far as to say, it is the root of virtually all problems in the modern, western, peaceful world. Problems t…
Category: the problems
Game theory, politics and morality: the prisoner’s dilemma
Life is complex. Life is multidimensional. One person alone can be a lot to comprehend. Combine many people together, and often enough, you end up with a clusterf*** of complexity of life. Moral philosophy takes an hopeless stand: the variations and sheer multitude of situations, the overwhelming number of eventualities are too much to deal…
A philosophical analysis of economic/political competition
Let me start bluntly, wading into deepest water directly: we pride ourselves to have emancipated from war in our western civilizations – from waging war, killing each other. But take a good hard look at how our economy, that is, capitalism works: by competition. We compete for resources, objects, money. That in turn means –…
History never stops
In 1999, Francis Fukuyama famously proclaimed “the end of history”: through a synergy of peace, democracy and capitalism, a strong sociological fabric was created, that mankind had never experienced before. An explosion of a global middle class, with constantly rising quality of life, followed in the decades after World War II. Many thought that this…
the world financial crisis of 2007 and why it will happen again
To understand why the banking crisis of 2007 happened and to know why it could happen anytime again (and in all likeliness, given enough time, will happen again), we need to dive into a few basic issues of economics. Like what is money, what is the economy based on in general, finishing with the comparison…
Amerika, Deutschland und die NSA – Staatentypologien in einer Debatte
In Europa, und Deutschland im Speziellen kann die Aufregung noch so groß sein über die Überwachungsallmacht der NSA – Amerika kümmert dies wenig. Wohlgemerkt ist auch in Amerika eine deftige Debatte entbrannt nach den Enthüllungen der letzten Monate. Aber dabei echauffiert sich Amerika nicht über das grenzenlose Datensammeln und das unwohle Gefühl, ständig überwacht zu…