What, Why & How do we Know ?
Excellent edition of Start The Week this morning guided by Andrew Marr, in stark contrast to John Humphrys’ incompetence interviewing his victims on the Today programme immediately before. Let’s hope we can forget Humphrys and talk about the balanced Religion vs Politics discussion between Stanley Hauerwas, Mary Warnock, Ray Tallis and John Gummer. Note Start … Continue reading “Chalk and Cheese”
Unlearning (or relearning) communication habits through the experience of social media is the topic of this brief observation from Euan Semple. (I happen to agree – I believe that is a major effect of the overload of communications we all seem to participate in these days – basic social rules are really tied to the … Continue reading “Unlearning”
Just a quickie. I’m reading Hitchens “God is not Great”. I admitted earlier, when I heard him talking, that I had understimated Hitchens in all the God vs Science hysteria. Will the intelligent world ever live down guilt by association with Dawkins !? Thank god for Dennett, Harris and Hitchens (and the Archbishop). Only a couple … Continue reading “The Real Culprit is not GINGer”
Having (mostly) read Diamond’s Collapse recently, and noticing the various G8 stories (Japan today, China, India, etc ongoing as well as US, Russia and the rest of us in the same boat) about climate change controls, carbon emissions targets, agreements, and the like, I can’t help feeling the No.1 global sustainability issue is population – … Continue reading “Population”
Thanks to Sam for the link to this Telegraph piece by Charles Moore. It took exceptional brilliance not to see a crash coming … Just more skilled incomptetence and 20/20 SOMist hindsight, and of course the “regulation” subject is a matter of “rational” management and governance.
This is a (near) verbatim copy of a MOQ Discuss forum post of mine from a month or so ago. I caused some offence last year when I dissed Zeitgeist (2007) without having seen this Zeitgeist Addendum (2008). I have since seen this version too. It is pretty comprehensive and on the money 😉 as you say. I still … Continue reading “Zeitgeist Update”
Interesting debate to be had about where the open source game will fit the wider business of commerce and governance. [Talking of which … is it possible to be inexpensive without being cheap … do you in fact get what you pay for ?]
A main thread of my work is that what passes for sense, knowledge and rationality in communication and decision-making with any “what should we do” qualitative, ethical or moral element, is essentially memetic. A western meme that dominates western society and western dominated worlds; a meme that focusses on quantifiable values and discrete objects than … Continue reading “ECT – A Fine Meme”