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I wouldn't be so fast to knock Capitalism is the Crisis. Chris Hedges is absolutely worth taking a good listen / read of. My apologies if your particular worldview happens to get shaken.

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Either way, the list is clearly heavily biased. At least put Free To Choose on there as well.

You're free to choose to add that to your own list, of course.

Oh, turns out that is on YouTube. I watched bits of that in my econ classes, might be useful to watch it again now that I've concluded much of what I was taught was in fact bunk.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3N2sNnGwa4

I think it's important to understand both Hedges and Friedman. IMO, the more you look at it, the more profound the divide there is. I think we think we know what we mean by these things, but the older I get, the less sure I am of that.

Care to expand on "what we mean by these things"?

If not here, then elsewhere. Hrm ...

I've got a sort of bloggy subreddit at http://reddit.com/r/dredmorbius How about a new post:

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/1v052g/what_we_...

It should be Government is the Crisis, but let's not shake up your worldview.

If I were writing titles, it would be something less elegant. "The Dissipative, Self-Organizing System in Entropic Crisis", or "The Population-Growth-Energy-Complexity Nexus".

Though I've been leaning toward "The Best of All Possible Worlds". You've got to think about that one a bit.

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