Archive - Active Measures

The Orientation That Shapes Everything

Where We Begin Determines Where We End.

Jul 21 • Robert Cuttino

April 2026

In God's Economy: We might benefit if we don't optimize for ownership, cash and short-term ROI

We might advance the Kingdom most by considering complex contracts!

Apr 15 • Robert Cuttino

March 2026

God's Economy: Free of Special Interests

A case study of how the (economic) tail can wag the dog(ma).

Mar 20 • Robert Cuttino

God’s Economy: Productivity vs. Personalization

Fruitfulness means impersonal participation in God’s creative order.

Mar 7 • Robert Cuttino

December 2025

Policy Pirated: The Tech-Bro Vision for America

Why Our Future Is Being Written by Men Who Think They’re Tony Stark

Dec 20, 2025 • Robert Cuttino

A Pharisaical Crisis

The Sorriness Behind Our Fruitlessness

Dec 12, 2025 • Robert Cuttino

Taking Stock of Conditions (cont.)

Condition: An extractive disposition of some toward Truth.

Dec 6, 2025 • Robert Cuttino

November 2025

Taking Stock of Conditions

Key Condition: Aptitude Failure

Nov 26, 2025 • Robert Cuttino

October 2025

Active Measures: a Manual for the New Age

In an unsteady democracy, under a surveillance state, within techno-serfdom— what is character to do?

Oct 8, 2025 • Robert Cuttino

Installment 7 of 7: When All Good Was Gone

Oct 6, 2025 • Robert Cuttino

September 2025

Installment 6 — The Dogma of Enough

Sep 19, 2025 • Robert Cuttino

Installment 5 — The Death of Institutions; the reDefinition of "Progress"

Sep 13, 2025 • Robert Cuttino

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