by sustainablesociety | Nov 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
“As matters now stand, every issue is hopelessly entangled in a snarl of emotions, stereotypes and irrelevant memories and associations.” (John Dewey) I sit down with friends and we discuss matters of various triviality and seriousness. A common theme often makes its...
by sustainablesociety | Sep 26, 2020 | Uncategorized
When you’ve settled yourself into the seat at the cinema, and cursed that you have sat next to a big box of crunched popcorn and a giant tub of noisily slurped Cola held by someone with the eating etiquette of a half starved hyena, you know that what you are...
by sustainablesociety | Jun 6, 2020 | Health, Politics
What has the now global, dominant economic variants of capitalism to do with health outcomes? It has to do with the system of private property, alienation and the continuing struggle for existence, which capitalism seemed to have solved in the rich level 4 countries....
by sustainablesociety | Jun 2, 2020 | Politics
I can’t breathe For the weight of history bears down, And suffocates my hopes, I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe, For the boot on my human face stamps down Crushing a vision of the future, I can’t breathe. I can’t breathe For the white hooded sheets, the red flagged,...
by sustainablesociety | May 31, 2020 | Random Thoughts
Dialectics, Dynamism and David Bowie “I heard telephones, opera house, favourite melodies I saw boys, toys, electric irons and T.V.’s My brain hurt like a warehouse, it had no room to spare I had to cram so many things to store everything in there And all the...
by sustainablesociety | Apr 28, 2020 | Politics
Photo by visuals on Unsplash In 2020, some of the world’s largest economies are led by men who have adopted the speech patterns of the ‘Agitator’. These men use the emotional states of the population to further their own, and their allies, political...
by sustainablesociety | Feb 10, 2020 | Climate Change
This short collection of essays, written between 2011 and 2019, seeks to discuss the concept of sustainability and its relationship to society and health. They can be read individually in any order. I argue that an understanding of what ‘health’ is, needs to change...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 19, 2020 | Politics
Introduction “I came to realize that ideologies had a narrative structure – that they were stories, in a word – and that the emotional stability of individuals depended upon the integrity of their stories. I came to realize that stories had a religious substructure...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 13, 2020 | Uncategorized
I like a pint. On occasion, I may be found in ‘The Sloop’ in St Ives, or the ‘Pilchard Press’ in the same seaside town. I like a pasty. A proper Cornish pasty stuffed with succulent steak wrapped in short crusty pasty oozing with gravy. I am...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 10, 2020 | Philosophy
Essay by Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592). Many years before Irvin Yalom in 2008 wrote ‘Staring into the Sun’ but after The Buddha’s reflections on the transience of life, Michel De Montaigne confronted head on the inevitability of mortality in an attempt to facilitate...
