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The Pursuit of Happiness

May 2, 2018 Homo Stupidus

It is well-known that Americans revere the three legal documents on which their country was founded – the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and

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Happiness is not the Same as Utility: Maximizing One’s Utility is not the Best Model

April 6, 2018 Homo Stupidus

In several other essays, I have severely criticized the founding of what is erroneously called the Nobel Economics Prize, since Alfred Nobel never founded a

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Why Should the First Person to Do Something Matter? How New Media Influence Our Idea of Celebrity and the Things We Want to Do

March 9, 2018 Homo Stupidus

Contrary to what many people believe, it is not true that all people, in all times and places, have wanted to be famous. The desire

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Television is a Brain-Control Device: The Buddha was Right about Human Desire

March 5, 2018 Homo Stupidus

Ever since it was invented, televisions have rapidly multiplied and spread over the Earth, entering into more and more human habitations, wherever there is electricity

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  • Act I: Philosophical Misadventures
  • Act II: Free-Market Folly: Why Economics is not a Science
  • Act III: The Glorious Miracle of Life
  • Act IV: Our Relationship with God
  • Act V: The Only Way Forward is the Way Back
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