John Locke: A Civil Society of Human Understanding
This is very strange, I am at McDonalds on the free wireless and there is a television in front of me. I am watching a scene in the movie where all these people are being hanged, they are in medieval England. The official person is saying the right to habeus corpus suspended, right to a… Continue reading
World Peace: Statue of Liberty or Vengeance is Mine?
This morning I felt despair when I recalled the photograph of Barrack Obama, Hillary Clinton and various military people and Advisors watching the assassination of Osama Bin Laden and others live. The activity must have seemed like a violent video game, yet this is real life or indeed death.
I can’t understand why the US… Continue reading
Time to Connect Together in a Global Village
COMMUNICATION
A global village,
A stark contradiction in terms,
The small becomes so large,
The jury is adjourned.
As we imagine the superhighway,
As the thinkers start to dream,
A new social order will develop,
As the technology floats downstream.
All humanity is a family,
Although we seem remote,
We must connect together,
If we… Continue reading
From Government Budgets to Sustainable Social Policy Community Forum
The Australian Budget came down last night. I had a quick look over it without going into the detail, as I am not interested in the details but am feeling for another way of looking at Government budgets with a new future in mind. So I will just write a stream of consciousness here, without… Continue reading
Joseph Stiglitz: The Top 1% need the Bottom 99%
The article below focuses on the top 1% and it evokes for me an experience working as a Research Analyst at the home of one of the Managing Directors of the company. I was coding survey verbatim responses into categories with his wife. I asked the wife just out of curiosity whether she felt those… Continue reading
We The People Will Create The Change
This poem was written in the middle of the night. I sent it to every Parliamentarian in the Australian Federal Parliament, during Howard years (Bush/Blair years). I took a risk to make myself visible, but it was heartfelt. I did not expect them to act on it or to respond to it. It was myself… Continue reading