R World (Ron Davison muses aloud)
13 July 2026
AI Representation
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Lindsay Graham dead. Mitch McConnell brain dead. Makes you wonder how long before districts will be perpetually represented by the AI avatar...
11 July 2026
The Limit of Institutional Imagination
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What invention is to products and technology, entrepreneurship is to institutions. One of the limits to an entrepreneurial economy will be ...
10 July 2026
Hacking Consciousness Is Easier Than Hacking Voting Machines
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Our perceptions are more subject to manipulation than our votes. Voting machines are physically protected by strict security protocols and l...
05 July 2026
The Fifth of July!
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Happy Fifth of July! The first day of the next 250 years.
04 July 2026
It Was Indeed
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It was the least we could do, he said. And, indeed, it was, the very least they could do.
New Politics for the Next Economy - What Comes After the First 250 Years of America?
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America has reinvented itself four times. I think we're on the fifth. Two hundred and fifty years in, that seemed like the right thing t...
03 July 2026
A Gerontocracy If You Can Keep It, Er, Keep Them Alive
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The country is 250 years old. How old is that? Well, not that old. The three oldest members of congress have a combined age of 267 years, so...
02 July 2026
The Democratic - or Post-Hero - Mindset
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"The democratic mindset is one that is post-adolescent and properly recognizes the impossibility of heroes. There are no heroes. There ...
01 July 2026
Lab Partner
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It was the most curious thing that had happened to him in months. Out of the blue, he had been assigned a lab partner. This, in his sixties...
Cults, Culture and How They Cut or Connect
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Culture generally connects you to other people, makes your world bigger. Cults cut you off from other people, make your world smaller.
The Bad News and Good News
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The bad news? The San Diego Padres trail the Chicago Cubs 23 to 3. The good news? It's the top of the 9th and they can still make a come...
30 June 2026
Unhappy Voters in the UK and US
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Keir Starmer served 23 months as the UK's Prime Minister and next month it seems almost certain that former Greater Manchester Mayor And...
My Schadenfreuden Therapist
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"You dropped your therapist because he was Freudian?" "No. More like schadenfreuden. He seemed too happy to hear about my unh...
Supreme Court Upholds Fourteenth Amendment
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The thirteenth amendment ended slavery. The fourteenth amendment gave the children of slaves citizenship. Today the Supreme Court ruled - 6...
28 June 2026
It's All Made Up - Inventing Modern Products and Institutions
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There seems to be a dawning realization that our social inventions - institutions, norms, culture, processes - are invented just as our prod...
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