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UNIVERSITY OF LIFE COMPLETED
June 22, 2016
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To everyone who has shown an interest in my writing over the years, I am pleased to announce that I have added many new articles to my University of Life website. The site now - finally - contains all the material from my book Freedom From Form, in which over ten years of work I analyzed why it is so difficult to achieve social progress - why history keeps repeating itself. The new material has been added to Part 3 of the website, Social Sources of Form, and includes:
NATIONS AND GOVERNMENT
The birth of nations
The purposes of government
Government characteristics and funding
The role of the military
The police
Lawyers and diplomats
The forms of government - dictatorship
New democracies
Mature democracies
The evolution of democracy
National sovereignty and supranationals
Political activism
ECONOMICS AND DEVELOPMENT
Economics 101
Communism and socialism
Capitalism, and progress
Nonproductive economic sectors
The failure of development
Economic evolution, and the coming adjustment
CORPORATIONS
Introduction to corporations
Premises of corporate behavior
Corporations and democracy
Corporate executives
Being a corporate employee
Corporations and the community
Corporations and their customers
Corporations and humanity
Golftopia
CORPORATE ACTIVISM
Evolution of corporate behavior
Corporate activism targets
Legal approaches
Corporate regulation
Internal corporate reform
Consumer activism
Ethical consumption
Corporate executives, and the limits of activism
MEDIA AND ADVERTISING
The goals of modern media
Media manipulation, and censorship
Freedom of the press?
The new reality
Media brainwashing
Advertising - the worst of the worst
MEDIA AND ADVERTISING ACTIVISM
Media activism fundamentals
Print media and music
Film and TV
The internet
Advertising activism
SOCIAL CONTROVERSIES
Introduction, civil rights, discrimination
Poverty, war
Drugs, criminals
Abortion, suicide, euthanasia
Animal rights, nuclear weapons and power
Genetic engineering, eugenics, great wealth inequalities