I was asked to join Press TV’s Spotlight programme to discuss the arbitrary threat of 25% tariffs being imposed on those who trade with Iran, thereby exposing the US administration’s bad faith in the recent nuclear weapons negotiations.
Press TV Spotlight-US Threats Against Iran (video 24 minutes 51 seconds)
As I often say in interviews, there is a much wider context to these issues and events. The wider context is revealed through a process of co-creative learning. Who rules, how and why?
BEYOND CRITICAL THINKING PART 1 INTRODUCED BY CLIVE MENZIES – How We Live (video 56 minutes 50 seconds)
BEYOND CRITICAL THINKING PART 2 INTRODUCED BY CLIVE MENZIES How We Live (video 1 hour 13 minutes 5 seconds)
These two videos summarise the content of this paper published in December 2019:
How We Live
Abstract
Purpose: Challenging outdated and erroneous assumptions that govern most people’s world views. To reveal the world as it is, rather than how “authority” would have us believe it to be.
Design/methodology/approach: This paper is the product of non-hierarchical, self-organised, co-creative learning; exploring the world from multiple perspectives.
Findings: Institutions which govern our lives are inherently corrupt, having been created, infiltrated and co-opted for the purpose of our subjugation and enslavement. The currently political economy farms humans and harvests the wealth they create for the benefit of a small number of individuals and their families. Farming of humans has a long history and we are approaching the apogee of centralised power which plans the total submission of humanity to its will and population reduction to optimise land and resources for the exclusive use of the “farmers”.
Research limitations/implications: Ideological and institutional blindness have obscured the reality of our existence.
Practical implications: We are shackled by our beliefs and misconceptions; when we understand the reality of our condition, we have the means to change that reality because we are the power or fuel of the political economy.
Social implications: Armed with a shared understanding of reality, we can shed our deference to “authority” and cease to abdicate responsibility for ourselves and each other to unreliable representatives and corrupt hierarchies. Self-organisation trumps “command and control” which is easily subverted for selfish ends.
Originality/value: Orthodox academia and media present a false picture of reality by design, based on abstracted data/information and erroneous assumptions. Co-creative learning reveals the nature of reality by looking at events and issues from multiple perspectives, exposing how everything is connected; little happens in the world by accident. There is a plan and Critical Thinking’s research and analysis reveals it.
Click Here for the full paper: https://archive.org/details/howwelivereferenced/mode/1up