Greed explained: J. Paul Getty, Aristotle and the Maximum Power Principle
The quest for an ample supply of energy is, in fact, at the heart of human greed.
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Our Words Are Our Weapons
In ancient China, the arrival of a new dynasty was accompanied by “the rectification of names,” a ceremony in which the sloppiness and erosion of meaning that had taken place under the previous dynasty were cleared up and language and its subjects correlated again. It was like a debt jubilee, only for meaning rather than money.