Subject: The Collective Action Problem
Date:
UPDATE
HOLY BOOKS
Read these again with new eyes and not religious ones. Begin with the Book of Moses; for the New Testament, begin with Mark, then the other 3 Gospels prior to reading the Quran.
PHILOSOPHY
PERSECUTION
Some authors purposefully hide their meaning “between the lines” to avoid the censors yet reach slow and careful readers, or boys who love to think. Like Jesus did with his disciples before he was executed.
COLLECTIVE ACTION
No one has solved the collective action problem, i.e., how did society come to be when human cooperation was once restricted to cooperation between close relatives? IMPORTANT: read about this problem.
Resources
heresy (n.)
"doctrine or opinion at variance with established standards" (or, as Johnson defines it,
"an opinion of private men different from that of the catholick and orthodox church"),
c. 1200, from Old French heresie, eresie "heresy," and by extension "sodomy, immorality" (12c.),
from Latin hæresis, "school of thought, philosophical sect." The Latin word is from
Greek hairesis "a taking or choosing for oneself, a choice, a means of taking; a deliberate plan, purpose;
philosophical sect, school," from haireisthai "take, seize," middle voice of hairein "to choose,"
a word of unknown origin, perhaps cognate with Hittite šaru "booty," Welsh herw "booty;"
but Beekes offers "no etymology."