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Slavery and Other Inequities
Slavery seems to have become a hot topic recently. A lot of Americans seem to be deeply ashamed to discover that it was practised in much of the United States until about 1865. Why the belated shame? Why now? Are … Continue reading
War
Smoking is an idle time activity. Idle Theory was an inkling I had one sunny spring morning in 1975. I’d recently started building heat flow models at university, and was wondering how to judge whether one heating system was better … Continue reading
The Atomised Society of the Coronavirus Pandemic
The new coronavirus epidemic is having a noteworthy effect: more and more people in cities like Wuhan are simply staying at home. In part this is because the civil authorities are telling them to stay home, and even locking them … Continue reading
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Tagged Coronavirus, epidemiology, idle theory, isolation, medicine, Politics
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The Control Freaks Benefit Only Themselves
Continuing with control freaks, a little Idle Theory: In Idle Theory people are seen as part busy, part idle. And someone who lives a 33% idle life, has one third of their life as time in which they are free … Continue reading
Government Over-Regulation
I grew up in a world where cars didn’t have seat belts, and drivers drank and drove, and you could smoke pretty much everywhere, except in church. We’re living in an increasingly regulated world. Back in my days in architecture, … Continue reading
Impatient Progressives
I’m not a Progressive. And I don’t think I’ve ever been a Progressive. I’ve never had any plans to improve the world. I think that before you can improve anything, you first have to understand it. And if you are … Continue reading
The Dream of Eden
Yesterday I ordered a book that I read many years ago, but now think I need to read again: The Pursuit of the Millennium by Norman Cohn, first published in about 1975. Cohn once summarized his work by explaining that … Continue reading
Fascism
50 years ago, as a 20-year-old architectural student, I got interested in energy conservation, and the idea what was then called “autonomous housing”, which was the idea of building houses that used very little expensive coal/oil/gas energy to heat them. … Continue reading
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Tagged agw, eu, fashion, Ice Age, idle theory, Politics, smoking ban
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The Possessed
From time to time I get possessed by ideas. And throughout 2018 I’ve been possessed by a new idea. It’s an idea about ice ages. And my idea was that when, as periodically happens, the Earth gets covered in ice, … Continue reading
Affairs Of State
My Idle Theory of politics is that, in busy societies, most people are simply too busy to interest themselves in affairs of state. They will be for the most part happy to delegate the authority to make decisions in these … Continue reading
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