The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Intellectual Roots of Techno-Primitivism BY  JEFFREY A. TUCKER     T he assault on enterprise of the last few years – meaning not the biggest politically connected businesses but smaller ones reflecting vibrant commercial life – has taken very strange forms. Ever since the   New York Times   said   the way forward was to “go Medieval,” the elites have been attempting just that. But this medievalism has not come at the expense of Big Data, Pharma, Ag, or Media. It mainly hits products and services that impact our freedom to buy, trade, travel, associate, and otherwise manage our own lives.  What began in lockdowns mutated into a thousand forms. That continues with daily new outrages. Maybe it’s not random.  We are also still trying to figure out what happened. Consider clothing control in the form of mask mandates. It turns out that they were just getting going. FOIA requests have  revealed  emails from November 2020 in wh...

The author goes with  "The Community Economy Needs Its Own Money"! The solutions will come not from those profiting from inequality and scarcity but from relocalizing "money" and production to create degrowth community economies. We think we understand "money"--we don't. We think the current versions of "money" are the final versions--they aren't. Understanding "money" requires some heavy-lifting, but it's important, so let's dig in. The most accurate description of "money" (in quotes because it's not what we think it is) is Art Berman's shorthand: Energy is the economy. Money is a call on energy, the capacity to do work. Debt is a lien on future energy. We think that creating more "money" can solve all problems. It can't. Creating more "money" only adds another crisis to the fundamental crisis, a scarcity of affordsable energy and resources. In my new book,...