Category: "Philosophical"
Thickening up Facebook
Its a common complaint and a justified one in my opinion that Facebook has too much "junk" and not enough content. I have been challenged over recent days over what I could do about that and this is my first attempt at formulating those thoughts.
Categories: Philosophical, Fun, Systems Thinking, Knowledge Management, Web, Friends, Complexity, Learning, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
Facts Not Fear
This is a first for this blog - a version of a "re-tweet". The following open letter was written by an Infectious Diseases Specialist in response to the relatively uninformed response by many to the Covid-19 pandemic. I have republished it here because it is bang on topic of "feeding my ignorance" and it reinforces the sort of message I was trying to convey in my previous writing on the subject.
Categories: Philosophical, Worldview, Health, ----------
Democracy Is Great...
...but flawed! After writing my previous post I had a bit of a "lightbulb moment" regarding the democratic system. I am not saying for one minute that I have in any way solved the problem - but perhaps my lightbulb will shed a little luminance on it.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Complexity, Decision Making, Worldview, ----------
More Than Politics
Its almost a year since my last post - and slightly strange that the trigger should be (nearly) the same. There have been a number of things that, perhaps, could have been written about in that time - maybe a few that should have been - but my thoughts never got written down. This does not mean that there is only one thread going through my mind these days - although the fact that the previous post was on a very similar topic may make it look like that.
Categories: News, Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Complexity, Decision Making, Worldview, ----------
Usandthemism
Maybe its not a real word - but it is perhaps a description of a 'disease' that seems to be increasingly threatening our stability all around the world. This, perhaps, is nothing new - whether it was sectarianism in Ireland or racism in the USA or apartheid in South Africa or countless other instances throughout history the disease of usandthemism has never worked out well. Perhaps it is all in our imagination, but it seems to be thriving in the current climate with plenty of people/groups happy to open themselves up to infection.
Categories: News, Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Complexity, Worldview, ----------
From Little Acorns
It is only a few posts back that I asked (rather tongue-in-cheek) what was the purpose of spiders. Last night I watched a programme that - whilst not answering that question - did illuminate rather well the whole interconnectedness theme that permeates many of my posts in this blog. What is more, it also went beyond the focus that I tend to have - i.e. the way in which we are connected to others - to illustrate that this interconnectedness is really widespread across species.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Complexity, Worldview, ----------
It's Not Just Me
This blog is predicated on the fact that there is a huge amount of 'stuff' that I don''t know - the quotation from Einstein sort of sums it up and I find it proven almost daily. Even so it is always comforting when there is some sort of independent corroboration in the form of someone else saying similar things - even if that does rather smack of confirmation bias.
Categories: Philosophical, Learning, Worldview, ----------
What Are Spiders For?
Can I just start this by saying that nowhere in this post will you find a definitive and precise answer to the question posed in the title. The poor spiders are chosen for investigation not because they are particularly relevant, nor because they have a great and mysterious purpose, but rather because there is one that has been web building outside our kitchen window for weeks and every time I do the washing up I am staring at it!!
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Complexity, ----------
To Forget
There have been plenty of posts in this blog about our selective memory - the way we remember some things but not others - the way we find it difficult to distinguish between reality and fiction when looking back at past events - the way we tend to exaggerate, one way or another, those memories that we retain - the way that something someone else says or does will trigger a memory, sometimes even triggering a memory that is fictitious.
Categories: Philosophical, Worldview, ----------
To Forgive
This post is the result of my thinking being triggered by a very specific piece of "news" (its not really news since the actual event happened many years ago - but has only recently become public knowledge). I was very unsure of how to react to this particular story - so this blog is me thinking it through.
Categories: Philosophical, Worldview, ----------
