Since the earliest days of our evolution on the savanna, our visual and aural senses have been attuned to ignore content.
Category: Philosophy
Shape of Things to Come
A striking feature of Wells’ book is the way in which he prefigured ‘cancel culture’ in the thinking of his fictional social scientist.
Skepticism and Wonder
In the vast ignorance of a society absent of sceptical enquiry, evil festers and spreads, like the coming of night, and all foul things come forth.
The Problem of Over Correction
While many will cheer and even demand over correction, given the ‘historical injustice,’ many questions remain unanswered.
The Over Consumption of Doubt
For the ancients, doubting was the end of a lifelong quest for truth. For moderns, it has become the beginning rather than end of speculation.
Media Archipelago
Pushing back on unorthodox views has given rise to ‘wrongspeak,’ ‘the things we believe to be true but cannot say,’ creating a Media Archipelago.
The Perfect Moment
Though it is not clear if this is the poet or the urn speaking, what is clear is that the passage seeks to transcend visual value.
‘Oh, the humanity!’
The past, which comes flooding in, transports us to a moment which is both frozen in time and animated by our thinking. ‘Oh, the humanity!’
‘I’ and ‘Me’
In ‘No one is to blame for misbehaviour’, I made reference to George Herbert Mead’s ‘I’ and ‘Me.’ But what did he mean by them and what are their implications for the practice of management?
No One Is To Blame For Misbehaviour
Variability in people leads to variability in the anticipated behaviour. In this context there is always a degree of unpredictability in behaviour.