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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The “why” is not always more important than the “how” when governance and bureaucracy at a large organisational or international scale is concerned…
It can be of no great surprise to any of us that there has never been any fully complete, self-consistent or comprehensively successful political system…
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Wicked Problems
Idiots will not set us free…
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Ego and Empire
I find myself endlessly amazed that we have not yet grown past the Age of Empire and Ego…
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Uncertainty
Do you ever get the feeling that no one really ever knows what they are doing ?
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Online: Political Polarisation ?
The fault, as it goes, lies not in the stars but in ourselves…
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Economics, Beyond Politics ?
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…
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Isolationism
Manufactured populist caricatures and jingoistic isolationist slogans translate into simplistic policy declarations which represent classically “head-in-the-sand”, short-term, not particularly intelligent and effectively selfish political thinking…
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Culture Vulture: Cannibalising Reality
…where political expediency or sheer information volumes have created an environment in which a notional truth might just as well be selected based upon the extent to which it supports an ideological bias as it may be selected on the grounds of a falsifiable basis in fact…
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Fear Factor: Damocles
The central problem in this professional mismatch of politicians with their roles is that playing the game of being elected or rising to positions of power is fundamentally not the same thing as actually playing the game of governing well…
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Hate Speech: Caveat Emptor
Context: Hate on the Rise After Trump’s Election. It is no surprise, really, that hate crime has surged. As a far-flung observer of these events it has always been apparent (because it has always been the case) that politicians who do not cautiously vet their own words and public statements can let loose all manner […]
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