We are still collectively attempting to build economic perpetual-motion engines of constant growth when the tools for building resilient emergent complexities into a potentially organic financial ecosystem already exist within our shared scientific and technical, conceptual vocabularies…
That an opinion has been expressed may be a fact but that the opinion necessarily represents a fact (or truth) does not logically follow…
This was a brief poem I wrote in 2001. The overall feeling is of loneliness and observing emptiness in others…
Decisions, both good and bad, are indelibly inked in time and like the bell which having been rung can not be un-struck, we just have to learn to live with them…
What can an education system starved of funds really do in the realms of blue-sky thinking and grand academic omphaloskepsis ?
The longer-term and more expensive consequences of wielding political ideology as an economic solution are rarely acknowledged…
There is so much discussion of mindfulness, what of mind-emptiness ? Lao-Tzu knew the eminent usefulness of that which is not there. Something which is nothing can in fact be absolutely anything…
To me – there is no meaning but that which we make. The burden of self-determination is not as soothing as faith must be and for this reason, in my agnostic isolation, I can not fully avoid a mild envy at the joys and certainties your faith provides you. Even if I do not share it (faith), I deeply respect it… Sisyphus’ burden is not that of the Believer…
…the more that entrenched camps set themselves up against one another in an unending battle to get one over on the opposition, the less we actually coordinate and focus on the root causes of the problems which divide us in the first place…
Any political system or theory which does not place the environment and environmental concerns at the center of their ideological matrix is displaying a short-sighted, selfish immaturity beyond measure…
If you can not sufficiently defend your own actions and assertions in the public arena without resorting to infantile name-calling in lieu of constructing comprehensive, intelligent defence of your ideological assertions and political positions – you are probably not qualified for the job…
A meme is, more or less, simply a unit of information – a quantum of cultural communication. This is information stored, compressed, perhaps encoded or encrypted in some way. This information is encoded in such a manner that it can be unpacked or decrypted in useful ways. This generation of meaning clearly already exists within […]
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