Nelson GuedesApr 42 minReflections on Running for City CouncilI've been seriously considering running for city council, but I've been reluctant for a few reasons. First of all, I'm not very fond of...
Nelson GuedesSep 17, 20214 minWhy Occupy Didn’t SucceedWhat Went Wrong and What We Can Learn from It Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. While the movement...
Nelson GuedesJan 22, 20214 minThe Business of GovernmentWe tend to think of governments and businesses as separate and distinct as if they belong to completely different categories like...
Nelson GuedesJan 19, 20214 minThe True Nature of MatterMatter as a Relative Concentration of Space I have been thinking about this subject for several years and I have been working on a more...
Nelson GuedesApr 2, 20203 minWe Are a SuperorganismCOVID-19 is teaching us we are an inseparable whole I've been having a lot of mixed feelings over this whole pandemic thing. Part of me...
Nelson GuedesSep 20, 20194 minWelcome to the Postnormal EraLet’s see them aliens Today is going to be a big day. As we speak, millions of shitposters are getting together in Nevada to storm Area...
Nelson GuedesAug 27, 20194 minSolving the Dark Energy MysteryGravity and Dark Energy are the Same Thing Since Einstein, we have defined gravity as a warping of the space-time continuum caused by...
Nelson GuedesAug 21, 20195 minUncovering the Global Corporate OligarchyWhere the decisions are really made The Business Roundtable, a group of influential corporate leaders, claims they have suddenly changed...
Nelson GuedesAug 15, 20195 min4 Realizations of Our Place in the CosmosThe Pale Blue Dot photograph of planet Earth, taken on February 14, 1990 by Voyager 1 1. The Earth Doesn’t Belong to Us, We Belong to...
Nelson GuedesJul 31, 20197 minReality Is the Code of a GameForget Simulations, the Earth is a Game We Can Solve (Image: The Matrix) It is a popular idea to think that the universe is a simulation....
Nelson GuedesJun 16, 20194 minThe Underlying Causes of Housing Affordability CrisisSpeculation is thought to be the central cause of unaffordable housing, but in reality, it is merely a symptom. The real cause of the...
Nelson GuedesAug 29, 20185 minThe Insightful Nature of Intuition“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and...
Nelson GuedesDec 4, 20176 minWe Need a Citizen MediaFrom Corporate Social Media to Citizen Owned Media How can we communicate effectively when the media is dominated by corporations and...
Nelson GuedesAug 21, 20176 minThe Complex Evolution of Political GroupsAll groups of people in society are connected by social, economic, political and financial interactions that flow between members of the...
Nelson GuedesMay 23, 20173 minThe Neoconservative DeceptionIt has become quite apparent that the majority of the planet opposes the global corporate order. Due to this consistent opposition, it...
Nelson GuedesMay 20, 20173 minHow the Elite Controls Society Through Networks of Power BrokersMost organizations in society currently use a centralized hierarchical social-economic architecture, including governments, corporations,...
Nelson GuedesNov 14, 20166 minWe Need a New Political SystemWe Need to Create an Emergent Collaborative Democracy Owned and Controlled by Us Why are we still relying on political systems that are...
Nelson GuedesOct 1, 20166 minFaith, Truth and the Transcendence of the Individual SelfA Discussion on Soren Kierkegaard's Existentialism The essence of Kierkegaard’s arguments is that the crowd only exists as a collection...
Nelson GuedesSep 12, 20167 minDeveloping a Collaborative OrganizationSynereo Conference Talk, September 10, 2016 The following is the transcript of the full speech I made at the Synereo Conference, on...
Nelson GuedesAug 2, 20164 min8 Universal Principles That Will Revolutionize CivilizationWhen observing the utterly chaotic and destructive nature of our human civilization, eventually one comes to the realization that those...