Yesterday (October 3, 2025), Heidi and I visited the Hoover–Minthorn House in Newberg, Oregon. The house, built in 1881 by Jesse Edwards, the Quaker founder of Newberg, stands behind a white picket fence, its clapboard walls repainted in pale yellow. Murray Rothbard had already set my prejudice against Hoover, so the visit was a sardonicContinue reading “Herbert Hoover and Moral Engineering”
Tag Archives: Buckminster Fuller
The Demographic Shadow
In my 2022 post on Soylent Green, I traced how the film’s revelation, “Soylent Green is people,” dramatically literalized overpopulation as self‑consumption, a horror that lingers because it feels both absurd and, from an ecological perspective, plausible. That image was a cultural zygote: mutating into other forms of demographic dread across decades. In 2025, weContinue reading “The Demographic Shadow”
Strategic Relocation
UPDATE (March 2020) the Covid 19 Pandemic caught us all flat-footed, exposing how little individual and institutional preparedness actually existed. UPDATE (January 2021) FEMA creates a National Risk Index, finally quantifying the obvious: nearly every county carries some form of existential exposure. How Plagues Have Changed History[1] _________________________ Many years ago after reviewing Buckminster Fuller‘sContinue reading “Strategic Relocation”
Protective Arts 