There is an interesting dialogue in Seed Magazine on the subject of deceit between two controversial figures, namely Chomsky and Trivers. Politically its position is not disguised in that it is fundamentally hostile to the current US administration. Now despite my own political views, even I can see that while criticising people for selective use […]
In the light of my Australia Day experiences it was interesting to see a BBC news item on the need to teach Britishness. Now I remember being taught this in primary school and in Chapel. We were taught that the British had civilised the world (civilised here in used in the sense of Linklater’s Private […]
In 1676 Newton, in a private letter to Robert Hooke said If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. Stephen Jay Gould in his last book The Hedgehog, The Fox and the Magister’s Pox sees this as the apotheosis of Bacon’s earlier aphorism Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi which loosely […]
One of the many interesting things about narrative work is that the more experience you get and more reading you do the more connections you make. In this case, my experience of gathering and listening to stories, and the concept of fractals. In any organisation, society, clan or family there are stories that you have […]
I had intended to post this on Martin Luther King day, but entered the wrong bring forward date in the diary which all goes to show the danger of relying overmuch on computers. I could leave it for next year but then it might go missing again! So here it is. I had been doing […]
I am currently reading Patrick Keeney’s interesting book Liberalism, Communitarianism and Education . It is an attack on theories, Utilitarian or Kantian that focus on the primacy of individual rights. In effect it argues for the need for society to realise that it has legitimate ends of social interaction that exist without dependency on individual […]
This delightful sketch comes from indexed, a blog which is worth a daily feed. Having spent a lot of time in airports recently the sheer number of shelves devoted to simple guru based recipes is scary. Everything is made simplistic (not simple), reduced to basic steps (normally seven), with off-the-shelf recipes and claims for success […]
In contrast with their One World partners BA, Qantas were a model of service between London and Sydney over the weekend. Failures of the entertainment system were treated with good humour and an obvious concern to fix the problem. This morning (its early Monday in Sydney) the hotel managed to miss by wake up call […]
I should have been writing this from Zurich, but thanks to BA I delivered an address by telephone from home, drove to Heathrow and back twice for no purpose and suffered 1.5 hours of mobile phone costs listening to music and advertising with promises that an agent would be with me shortly. Now I have […]
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