Observations on the human condition
Distributed, Autonomous, Codependent Self-Organisation (DACSO) is a natural practice within families and small groups. It reflects how humans sustained themselves for millennia before the introduction of money, which was adopted to scale activities, organise over distances, and interact with strangers. Core Virtues: Patience, Acceptance, and Forgiveness Successful manifestations of DACSO are underpinned by the virtues … Read more
A few days ago, I was invited to join this discussion: Hidayat TV Who Controls Who? (video 38 minutes and 52 seconds)Who Controls who ?What is the Current structure of this World ?Who are “They” & How do they Control Humans & Their Humanity ?What tools & Tactics they are Using to maintain their Hegmony/Supremacy/Control/ … Read more
Recent discussions on Hidayat TV about Israel’s behaviour, involve contrasting schools of thought: The other school of thought is that the US is all powerful and Israel is its tool in the Middle East. Two of the interlocutors in this discussion subscribe to this view and Batool Subeti’s explanation is powerful and compelling: In Critical … Read more
I’ve often said, including during the two interviews posted in the previous article, that an understanding of history, particularly 20th century history, is essential to understand the world today. Jean sent the following video (in two parts) in response to that article. Most of us developed a distorted view of the two world wars through … Read more
In this first video, I had the opportunity to lay out some of the context, as to why the world is the way it is. YOUTH MATTER TOPIC PARADIGM SHIFT IN TODAY’S POLITICAL ECONOMY 2024-10-22 (video 54 minutes 25 seconds) I supplied a list of references before the interview: Hierarchy and Political Economy – Birkbeck Presentation … Read more
I’ve been quiet here for a while because my life has been through a bit of an upheaval since Maggie died in May last year, not least my being reluctantly hospitalised for a week with pneumonia in February. I’m now pretty much recovered and feel ready to re-enter the fray – i.e. able to write … Read more
The Critical Thinking project that started in 2012, set out to answer this question and arrived at answers within the first five years of its work. Hierarchy and Political Economy – Birkbeck Presentation 2016 (video 51 minutes 28 seconds)Presentation of Critical Thinking’s analysis, pointing to three fundamental flaws in the global political economy.The analysis was … Read more
One of the most important questions we can ask in our search for comprehension of issues or events is cui bono? Who benefits? Constant reference to this yardstick throughout our work in Critical Thinking and beyond invariably revealed the same answer: those who control money. The extent to which those families that originated and shaped … Read more
Danny has been supportive of and has contributed to the work of the Critical Thinking project and its successors for some years, not least in providing meeting space, events and screen printing facilities in 2015. When we crossed paths in Eddie’s print studio on Tuesday, I spotted he had a few “Cool!tude” T-shirts. Danny explained … Read more
Well I guess it had to happen. Many of the links from outersite.org to freecriticalthinking.org will not work for the time being but they are available on the WayBackMachine at archive.org. I won’t go into why this has happened other to say that it is something of an “own goal” in as much as we … Read more
Within the last few days, LinkedIn censored (by removal) a post that contained information on Freedom Of Information requests for evidence of the SARS-CoV-2 virus being isolated. No-one has been proven to have died from covid because no relevant post-mortem data has been released. We can be reasonably sure that if there were genuine post-mortem … Read more