There may be more-or-less hard-wired psychological reasons why we are unable to successfully navigate our shared problem-spaces…
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Gullibility and Ignorance
With or without reasons, we tend to fly on autopilot and by instinct alone…
Look before you leap…
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…
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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