What it is about negative psychological or emotional states and narratives which seems to be so very much more contagious than the positive ones; what is the barb on the hook of negative narrative which just “sticks” in consciousness so successfully and resonates so broadly across social networks and cultures ?
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Uncertainty
Even a mature narrative of impermanence and endemic metamorphosis can sometimes be little more than an existential security blanket…
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Reciprocity
We live through each other or not at all.
The world feels a little like some complex tapestry in which we are constantly weaving design in at one end while the other end unravels…
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Simplicity
The attainment of political power is the sole end of pure political gamesmanship and the possession of appropriate aptitude or competency perhaps long ago became a secondary consideration…
Who among us is prepared to give up their most closely held beliefs, their own cultural and historically-contextual meanings for adaptive truth and a better world ?
We suffocate ourselves in the symbols and signs, stories and concepts that we think represent life but in so doing we actually distract ourselves from the simplest fact of just living…
The overall underwhelming response to climate change across the globe embodies two streams of behaviour. There exists a resonance between them but they are still relatively distinct categories. The political expediency required to cater for, or survive in, short-term democratic tenures in major carbon emissions-heavy economies. A failure of imagination. On the topic of a […]
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Lost in Translation
I often write as reflection to other’s thoughts and words, as comments or critical remarks upon other ideas. This tends to lead me more into my own meanings and worlds wrought of words. This is a high-wire act of balancing on a fragile thread of meaning strung between the intended meaning of the original message, […]
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On the Uses of Myth
An ideological investment in heroic figures at least partially represents the externalisation or projection of an ideal self, tainted by the biased interpretations of enlightened self-interest or other potential narrative corruption…
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Dreams, Cultures, Identities
Dreams are narratives in which the clear logical and temporal boundaries required to function in the world dissolve, where the images are all the time already present in the mind and there intermingle and reconcatenate into new and potentially novel configurations and metamorphoses. Myths and archetypes are…
From postcard Kardashian to podcast Kardashev: a veritable smorgasbord of digital choice unfurls itself before us. From the ridiculous to the sublime (and back again), so much noise, so much emptiness, so much colour and so many hues of bland grey. Feeling somewhat adrift upon this ocean of information, we are lost for effective words […]
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