Practical Thoughts

Dear Reader, Well,  some would say that it's been good while the Capitalist age  lasted! It seems to be clear that this era is over as its faults and lack of adaptability  are becoming more and more revealed.  Not that Communism - as implemented over the years - is the right answer either, and nor is anarchy. As the political writer Jim Wallis said, "The right gets it wrong and the left doesn't quite get it". So, is there such a thing as a true solution?  In traditional Socialism, however, resources would be distributed equally by the government to create a classless society.  Interestingly,   the view of Marx (as against what Communism became) was that after a few generations of people living under the benefits of a socialist system focused on cooperation and sharing, people would learn to work for equality rather than for personal greed and profit. The problem was that Marx did not factor in a quality that was needed to bring about the succ...

Dear Reader, Way back in the mid-1970s, circumstances in my life suddenly - and shockingly - came to a full stop. At age 30, I needed to find some answers to certain questions about life and soon decided to quit my lucrative job in software development in order to do that while mulling my time doing some voluntary community work for a month or two. I loved books, but until then they were mostly of the fictional kind. At this point, I paid visits to leading book shops (no Amazon then!) and was drawn to a plethora of books about our changing world - particularly about environmental studies but also about psychology and the sciences in general, and philosophy.  But some of the scientifically-orientated writers I came across were starting to look at the world through new spectacles and they fascinated me. Having been bored to death by the 'hard fact' scientific approach when I was at school, I loved these new books and their authors - particularly John Michell, but also another one...