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This is great. Thx Peter Wang 🦋 salon.com/2025/05/10/why…

I talked with Adam Lake about Reboot America, a project aimed at reforming American democracy. jimruttshow.com/adam-lake/ We discussed existential threats facing humanity, the two-party corporate duopoly, a Princeton study on policy preferences, first-past-the-post voting

"I think we need a big tent movement that isn't centered around any particular ideology, but centered around the democratic process and delivering for the American people what we actually want, which happens to be hundreds of policies that a supermajority of citizens want that

I talked with Ryan Blosser about the ideas in his book *Mulberries in the Rain: Growing Permaculture Plants for Food and Friendship,* co-authored with Trevor Pearsall. jimruttshow.com/ryan-blosser/ We discussed the motivation behind writing a permaculture book, the human sector

"So, sectors in permaculture are really simply energies that impact a design site. And one of Trevor's permaculture teachers, Dave Jacke, has a great quote. And that great quote is, 'Ninety-eight percent of the permaculture projects that fail, fail due to poor design in the human

Curious thought: "social construction of our perceived reality" is more or less true, as is "grand narratives may be useful but they aren't true" yet both perspectives are near the base of our current epidemic of insane socio-political thinking.

meme of the week:

Lately I've been thinking that the world since 1925 or so might best called the Bernay's Epoch when Freud's son-in-law Edward Bernays laid out the theory and methods for capitalism to intentionally reprogram people to be more optimally manipulated by capitalism.

I tried out Meta AI today with my traditional first probe question "who is Jim Rutt" as a relatively obscure person but one who has a fair bit about them scattered here and there across the nets it's a good test. Worst reply from a model in a long time: "Jim Rutt is a former

How are we doing? "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do

The 2026 elections may be the Final Exam on the American Experiment. Are we really ready to flush away 235 years of very imperfect but generally improving Enlightenment liberalism for a return to the world of Big Men and feudalism?