If you don’t know, in the Catholic tradition Hope is a theological virtue and it’s worth quoting Pope Francis in a letter issued this February, preparing for the 2025 Jubilee Year: “We must fan the flame of hope that has been given us, and help everyone to gain new strength and certainty by looking to […]
I need to acknowledge my debt to Terry Eagleton for his two books Radical Sacrifice and Hope without Optimism in acting as the initial inspiration for this post and that of tomorrow. I’ve been recommending both books on and off for some years now in the context of both climate change and Covid. Terry has written over […]
I spent most of yesterday’s post using the apprentice/craft hall set of practices to illustrate the unique ability of humans to create social mechanisms that transfer and enhance knowledge transfer between generations and also communities. I’m using knowledge there in a general sense that includes practice as well as theoretical knowledge. Today I want to […]
So I’ve now flagged up religion and narrative as distinct aspects of human systems, and note they are both collective in nature something that with the overall function of reducing energy costs will be a theme throughout this series. Humans like most animals to varying degrees operate best in groups, social interaction is a part […]
The importance of narrative in understanding human systems has been a large part of my work for over twenty-five years. In the Twelvetide series of 2020, I looked at the history of our use of narrative and some of the current applications. You can find the first of those posts here. I don’t plan to repeat […]
For the first substantive post in this series, I wanted to pick up one of the more controversial elements of human systems namely the pervasive nature of religious ideas/ideology; which is not the same thing as a formal religion. There are arguments in evolutionary psychology (I’ll try and find the paper and reference it later) […]
The emerging plan for this year’s series was to look at the various unique aspects of human complex systems: a working title would be humans are not ants. As I started drafting the opening blog yesterday I decided it was time to summarise the various Christmas, now Twelvetide, blog series I have been writing since 2009. […]
So its time to conclude this series on the nature and management of ritual and habits. I’ll confess at times I thought I might not. I took on the subject as a means of exploring something which I knew was important but which I could only see through a glass, darkly (1 Cor 13:12 KJV). I […]
I promised in the last post that I would look at practice theory which could easily lead into a discussion of habitus (Bourdieu) and Daisen (Heidegger) worthy of a thesis in its own right. Other people have made stronger links to the wider field of naturalising sense-making with SenseMaker® being described as a practical implementation of […]
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