Imagine a world where human beings could not talk. Maybe your mind immediately entered the world of Triffids and suddenly the entire human race cannot see? Maybe you began to worry about how you would watch television or listen to the radio? Maybe your faith in the ability of Facebook and the Internet to save mankind was suddenly kindled anew?…
The flow and ebb of time around cultures and ideas continues unabated, even in the face of more pressing ‘real world’ living imperatives. It has always been this way. And yet, what would be a workable alternative? If you were the great Benign Dictator, with the entire world as your fiefdom, how would you run it? History is an never ending…
What is the “i”? If we search for ‘i’, we will do so with the mental framework built on our social framework – a pre-configured filter through which we assess all sensory input. Even a single image involves an immense stack of preconceptions and inumerable forms of bias. Simple points like colours can hold different significance depending upon your environmental and…
Broad discussion on community costs, services and taxes is often polarised into two distinct schools of thought. “Property is theft” (Proudhon) “Private ownership is fundamental to individual freedom” (comment seen posted on a website forum) Perhaps it is time to bring some thinking to the table that is not too strongly aligned with either? What sort of society would…
There is a lot of controversy over a proposal to build a “mosque” in New York city near the site of the September 2001 New York Trade Centre bombing. If ever there was an argument fraught with opportunity for narrow-minded and partisan thinking then this is it. It involves religion, nationalist pride and hubris, international power plays, sound-bite argument and opinions…