The policy body as a branch of government would frame policy options and define long-term policy directions and orientation. This would involve setting priorities and deciding trade-offs, which then leads to making policy choices. open.substack.com/pub/macropsych…

‘Islam with German values’ was a call for mutual adaptation: Muslims reforming faith to fit democratic German values and wider European values. open.substack.com/pub/macropsych…

Godwin's law: an online discussion that goes on long enough has high probability of reaching a comparison involving Hitler or the Nazis. This is an informal observation about online discourse coined in the early days of internet forums. It suggests a recurring pattern in

In a modern society, the ability to call for help should be as dependable as the air we breathe. substack.com/@macropsychic/… Ensuring robust, reliable telecommunications access for everyone is not optional — it is a moral and societal obligation that demands immediate and sustained

Seizing Venezuelan Oil Tankers Isn’t Piracy — It’s Law Enforcement substack.com/profile/152321… Piracy is taking what doesn’t belong to you. Enforcement is taking back what a court has already said is owed.

open.substack.com/pub/macropsych… Sarkar’s emphasis is moral–structural: ownership becomes illegitimate when it enables hoarding, domination and rent extraction rather than serving collective welfare. The legal concept of property was not under attack. His concern was economic arrangements

AI pseudo-culture. When a technology normalizes the sexual violation of others at scale, it ceases to be innovation and becomes a machinery of patriarchy and coercion that corrodes human dignity and the moral foundations of public life. substack.com/@macropsychic/…

When organisations respond to legitimate concerns with institutional pressure (or normative coercion / ideological pressure) rather than practical solutions, workplaces become brittle. Staff stop speaking honestly, managers reach for slogans, and a culture of compliance replaces

In 1910, the richest 0.00001 percent of Americans owned wealth equivalent to 4 percent of U.S. national income. In 2020 and onwards, that number has risen to 12 percent. The wealth and power of oligarchs far exceed their Gilded Age peak. substack.com/@macropsychic/… The attached

This is one of the best books on cooperatives ever written. newsociety.com/book/humanizin… It takes a wide view of what is a cooperative enterprise and is basically about the cooperative spirit in socio-economics.

The USSR (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, 1922–1991) was a colonial project, even though the Soviet state defined itself as an anti-imperialist and anti-colonial power. substack.com/profile/152321…

Earth Jurisprudence: Its Foundations and Importance Key concepts that everyone should know: Earth laws, relationist ethos, rights of nature, ecocide, and their development open.substack.com/pub/macropsych…

A Community of Memory Is a Community of Power On 25 January 2026, at Vilnius’ Rossa Cemetery in Lithuania, four figures stood in quiet alignment: Lithuania’s President Gitanas Nausėda, Poland’s President Andrzej Duda, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, and Belarusian