Conspiracy of Dreamers
Subtitle: Capitalism at the Service of Humanity
Publisher: Magnolia Lane Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stevenson Ranch, USA
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 360
ISBN-13: 9780985986919
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Preface	i; title: Introduction	1; title: Something’s Happening Here	11; title: Two-Dimensional Space	17; title: Thinking about Thinking	19; title: A New Operating System	24; title: Word Problems	28; title: Speaking Metaphorically	31; title: A Road Map	37; title: 1 - You Are Here	39; title: Paradox of the Destruction of the Fittest	39; title: Signs of Discontent	44; title: A Peace Wave?	48; title: 2 – Capitalism as a Force of Nature	55; title: What is Capitalism?	58; title: A Sea of Starfish	61; title: Vestigial Structures	64; title: Pathological Mutation	67; title: Reptilian Capitalism	70; title: Diagnosing our Malaise	72; title: 3 - Conspiracy of 1776	85; title: The Foundation of Liberty	86; title: Freedom From	88; title: Decoding a Cipher	91; title: The Art of Associating	93; title: Some Dreams are Nightmares	100; title: Liberty Endangered	103; title: Social Studies	109; title: 4 – Surf or Sink	113; title: Transcending the Illusion	113; title: Change Your Mind, Change Your World	116; title: The Mind Shift Meme	121; title: Lessons from our Cousins	125; title: Looking East	127; title: Drill Here	129; title: 5 – Attaining Happiness	133; title: A View from the Top	135; title: Scaling the Pyramid	138; title: To Have or To Be	140; title: Homo Economicus (or the having mode writ large)	146; title: Striving for Better, Not More	152; title: 6 – The Philosopher’s Stone	157; title: Modern Alchemy	158; title: Systems Science – A Primer	161; title: Synergy	165; title: The Magic of Emergence	169; title: Phase Transition	173; title: Mobius Flip	174; title: An Unfolding Pattern	177; title: A Supersaturated Solution	180; title: 7 - Metamorphosis	185; title: Life at the Edge of Chaos	187; title: Civilization as Emergence	190; title: Starfish and Spiders Revisited	192; title: Downward Causation	195; title: Precision Bias	199; title: Physics Envy	205; title: Silly Putty	208; title: Magic of Butterflies	211; title: 8 – The Art of Steering	215; title: For Profiting Humanity Enterprises	216; title: Real Karma	228; title: Making Sense of Dollars	231; title: A True Cost Index	237; title: 9 – Ripple Effects	259; title: An Eco-nomics Paradigm	259; title: Our Funneling Society	261; title: Taming the Leviathan	276; title: Automation Dystopia	277; title: Kindness Changes Us	280; title: Unleashing our Potential		283; title: 10 – Twenty-First Century Dreamers	285; title: Root Expansion	286; title: Reaching for the Sun	291; title: Celebrating at the Top of the Pyramid	304; title: Hippie Redemption	309; title: 11 – An Invitation to Dance	313; title: Epilogue	323; title: Acknowledgments	325; title: Endnotes	327