It’s been a couple of months since the last post, and a lot has happened in that time, both in global and local arenas. Let’s start globally with the US election, which is happening right now. This is not the place to dissect the campaign and its protagonists – that has been, and will be for • Read More »
The Future of Work and Leisure Thanks to my son Kris for Krystallising this one. It connects with a couple of previous posts in obtuse ways that will become obvious in good time. And there’s a solution that may just be the salvation of humanity, if that’s not too grandiose a claim. The catalyst was • Read More »
The Big, Big, Big, Big, Picture – Part 2 So here’s where’s I lay my personal philosophical cards on the table, which may, or may not, inform the reader’s view of the foregoing and subsequent blog posts. But here goes: The search for the beginning, and end, of the universe as we know it is • Read More »
These Meanderings were intended to be about how all the little details of the world are fundamentally interconnected. Somehow it has morphed into explorations of interconnected historical situations, how they impact today, and how they may influence tomorrow – all bigger-picture stuff. I want to go back, eventually, to plan A but, having taken this • Read More »
A thought struck after the last post (and I don’t mean the haunting bugle refrain). The four invasive protagonists directly mentioned – Alexander the Great, the Roman Empire, Genghis Khan, and the Ottoman Empire – had one thing in common, and it’s something they share with others of similarly invasive persuasion. They’re all men. As • Read More »
War. There’s been a bit of it about. Actually, there’s been whole lot less of it about over the last century or so, believe it or not. Conflict on an international scale is arguably at an all-time low. But, unfortunately, those conflicts are producing more deaths, due to an “inexorable intensification of violence”, according to • Read More »
We went to see a movie last night – Goldstone. Recommended. It struck a chord in relation to this blog, because it has links to the past two major themes: Environment, and Economics. But it came most sharply into focus around another of the circles on the Meanderings mind map. Culture. Without giving up too • Read More »
It’s neither a science, nor an art. Economics is its own form of black voodoo magic, often with less chance of success than a witch-doctor’s blood sacrifice of a young virgin has of appeasing the thunder gods. There’s that particularly pith saying that “economists were invented to make weather forecasters look good”. Merriam-Webster defines economic • Read More »
We only have one environment. It’s where we live. It’s beautiful, it’s fragile, and it’s finite. That first adjective may be subjective, but the others are fact. Let’s start with finite. Have you ever sat in a large passenger aircraft and looked down on the Swiss Alps or the Himalaya? (The Australian “Alps” hardly even • Read More »
Okay! I’ve been threatening myself to do this for a long time, so here it comes! The original idea was to write a book about my understanding of Douglas Adams’ now-proverbial “Life, the Universe, and Everything”. It was to take the shape of a collection of “essays”, interlinked and cross-referenced by topic. Note that “essays” • Read More »