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		<title>Liberty: The Best Idea in History</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/07/11/liberty-the-best-idea-in-history/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2010/07/11/liberty-the-best-idea-in-history/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jul 2010 20:19:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Rights and Liberties]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The American Experiment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, with your permission, I'd like to pay homage to the speechifying tradition. To keep things <strong>polite</strong>, I'm not going to talk about a particular candidate or party, nor praise a specific policy or polity.  In fact, I promise not to talk about anything controversial at <strong>all</strong>; and will, for the sake of friendliness and universality, limit my discourse to the following non-controversial topics:  science, economic policy, politics and religion. I will tie them with the common thread of liberty.  We'll leave more fractious debates and incendiary topics to others, and stick with these <strong>comfortable</strong> issues.  Now, I suspect you might consider this a full, perhaps <strong>too-full</strong>, agenda for such a beautiful day.  Likewise, I am obliged to be mindful of the plans you may have made-- for this evening, and will keep my comments brief.  But before you decide I've set myself an impossible task, I hasten to remind you that last year the same allotment of time proved sufficient to make good headway regarding The Meaning of Life.   Today's few topics should, <em>by comparison</em>, be much easier to manage.  So please, give me the liberty to speak for a few minutes more.]]></description>
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		<title>The Meaning of Life</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2009/09/06/the-meaning-of-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Sep 2009 18:35:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Text of a speech I gave at the Unitarian Universalist Temple in Hinsdale, IL on August 30, 2009. 
Here's the audio-file: 
<a href='http://netcogito.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/Purpose.mp3'>Purpose</a>
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		<title>Anti Pareto Policy</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/02/11/anti-pareto-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/02/11/anti-pareto-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2007 09:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[controlling the tendency for unrestrained growth exhibited by scale free networks by economic incentives and penalties.]]></description>
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		<title>Binding the Invisible Hand</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/01/31/binding-the-invisible-hand/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/01/31/binding-the-invisible-hand/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Jan 2007 15:34:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Free market economics, Smith's Invisible Hand, Carrying Capacity and the limits to unbridled free market evolution.]]></description>
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		<title>Human Search Filters and the Wisdom of Science</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/01/03/human-search-filters-and-the-wisdom-of-science/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2007/01/03/human-search-filters-and-the-wisdom-of-science/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Jan 2007 07:35:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Intelligence - Natural and Artificial]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Towards a New Liberalism]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Internet is an impartial tool with which we can support our delusions of reality, or conversely build an objective and valid world-view.  The tendency is toward the former, it takes intention and education to pursue the latter course.]]></description>
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		<title>Recipe for State Success</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2006/12/28/recipe-for-state-success/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2006/12/28/recipe-for-state-success/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:26:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecomomics and Thermodynamics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Energetics and Humanity]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Five requirements of a free, innovative, progressive society.]]></description>
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		<title>Junto</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2006/10/15/junto/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2006/10/15/junto/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Oct 2006 19:57:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Local Politics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Join a Junto in Oswego, IL Several friends and I love having discussions regarding philosophy, political science, natural science, sociology and other similarly meaty topics. We emphatically do not all agree, neither do we come from the same starting points nor share identical (or occasionally even similar) views. We do tend to have a common [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trust and Security &#8211; Part 1 First National Bank and Trust</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2006/09/06/trust-and-security-part-1-the-bank-of-the-united-states/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2006/09/06/trust-and-security-part-1-the-bank-of-the-united-states/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Sep 2006 05:07:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Disposition and Relationships]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[The American Experiment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The importance of trust to national stability, interpersonal relationships, international interactions and economic health.

This first part relays an abbreviated history of the Bank of the United States and its relevance to the War of 1812.]]></description>
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		<title>A Time for Partisanship</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2006/08/31/a-time-for-partisanship/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2006/08/31/a-time-for-partisanship/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of the low points in the level of appreciation I have for our Congress came February 12, 1999 when the Senate voted on the impeachment of then President Bill Clinton. The most disturbing thing was neither the proceedings nor the ultimate decision; the most disturbing thing was the distribution of votes. I watched the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Energy and Economics â€“ Part 2:  Knowledge is Power</title>
		<link>http://netcogito.com/blog/2006/08/28/energy-and-economics-%e2%80%93-part-2-knowledge-is-power/</link>
		<comments>http://netcogito.com/blog/2006/08/28/energy-and-economics-%e2%80%93-part-2-knowledge-is-power/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Aug 2006 21:20:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>tscottt</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Ecomomics and Thermodynamics]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Introduction From the first embers of the first fires, to the lasers, rockets and televisions of the modern world, our eyes have been alight with the delights of discovery. Each progress in human culture has been born of accumulating insight and a wiser manipulation of our physical world and interpersonal society. Better machines, better processes, [...]]]></description>
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