Category: "Worldview"
The "System" Is Showing Its Limits
It is somewhat ironic that having been in the USA at the time of the EU referendum and, therefore, fielding questions from many Americans about "why" the vote went the way it did I should this morning wake to the news that they now have their very own version of the same type of result. The similarities between the build ups to the two elections and the way in which it eventually played out are eerily similar - albeit driven by two completely different agendas.
Categories: Systems Thinking, Complexity, Decision Making, Worldview, ----------
On This Day
Claudius met an untimely end; The whirlpool galaxy is discovered; The cornerstone of the "White House" is laid; The Greenwich meridian is set as 0 degrees; Paddington Bear makes his debut. The advent of the world wide web - and specifically wikipedia - enables us to get details of what happened "on this day" in history.
Unexpected Links
A "like" by one of my LInkedIn connections highlighted an "interesting" coming together of an assortment of things that (probably) is only "interesting" (or perhaps significant) to me. The reason that it has made its way into the blog is not so much because of the article itself but because it is such a good illustration of things "coming together" in a specific way, for a specific person.
Grey Areas Everywhere
In two posts last month around the time of the Olympic Games I wrote about the difficulties that are presented when it is necessary to impose some set of rules and regulations to prevent 'cheating' - specifically with regard to so-called "performance enhancement".
Categories: Philosophical, Sport, Complexity, Worldview, ----------
A Bit of Speculation
My eye was caught by an article on the BBC website - as much as by the fact that it seemed to be reporting "old news" as by the headline itself. However, having navigated to the page I discovered that it was, indeed, a good piece - if slightly spoiled by being rather one-sided.
Categories: Philosophical, Systems Thinking, Complexity, Worldview, Books, ----------
A Lesson Learned (on being stuck)
I've started on my newest online creation - partially inspired by the making memories series of posts here - to create a bit of a "life history" - a treasure trove of memories (probably real and imagined if you have read some of my previous writing on the subject) - a pot-pourri of little highlights (and possibly some lowlights) of my life.
Categories: Welcome, Philosophical, Cognition, Worldview, Books, ----------
Naturally Enhanced Performance
Just a few days after I was pontificating on the difficulties of defining what it meant to be a "drug free" athlete the headlines at the Olympics have once again swung towards someone who has an "unfair advantage" through no fault of her own.
Categories: Sport, Complexity, Worldview, ----------
Everything Changes
Although I have written many words in this blog (and elsewhere) that express my ideas on assorted subjects it would still be fair to say that my underlying mantra on what it all means is "I don't know" - which perhaps is just as well as it reinforces the purposes of the blog. All of my ideas/thoughts/beliefs are - as far as I am concerned - interim ones which might be superceded tomorrow - or next week - or few years from now - or perhaps even before I finish writing this sentence.
Categories: Philosophical, Complexity, Cognition, Worldview, ----------
More On Making Memories
My musings on making memories was triggered by a reminder of just how limited our life span is. The inevitability of death is something that everyone must acknowledge, our time is most definitely running out from the moment we are born. Its OK - this isn't intended to be a morbid post to the blog - simply a working through of some thoughts related to a heightened awareness of our own mortality.
Categories: Philosophical, Worldview, Health, ----------
Where Does Performance Enhancement End?
One of the things that you can guarantee when it comes to "big" championships like the Olympics is that there will be a few headline hogging drug cheats exposed. At this particular edition of the Games the issue has been made even more high profile (if that is possible) by the recent revelations regarding the fidelity of the testing process in Russia.
Categories: News, Sport, Complexity, Worldview, ----------
