by sustainablesociety | Jan 15, 2019 | Politics
On wavers of flags and shrouds. (Photo by Matt Briney on Unsplash) It feels as if this ‘blessed plot, this realm’, this encrusted blood soaked earth, is being shaken from beneath my feet. Those who are doing the undermining, appear to me as wide eyed frothing mouthed...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 9, 2019 | Health, Philosophy, Social Science, Sociology
Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society Sociology, Health and the Fractured Society: A critical realist account. Graham Scambler, (2018) Routledge. London. I have been following Graham’s work for quite some time now. I have used some of his ideas in my own...
by sustainablesociety | Nov 29, 2018 | Health, Politics
The Sustainability of the NHS The neoliberal ideology of health care provision. ‘The problem with the NHS is not one of resources. Rather it is the system remains centrally run, state monopoly designed over half a century ago” (Direct Democracy p74). Amid the junior...
by sustainablesociety | Nov 10, 2018 | Politics
Tomorrow I will be wearing these medals given to my Grandfather, Thomas Goodman. They only came to light a few years ago. I wear them for his memory, but not to support the Imperial folly that was the 1914-18 murder. The memory invoked by the black and white imagery...
by sustainablesociety | Oct 27, 2018 | Health, Social Science
Insecure ‘Overachievers’ (Photo by rawpixel on Unsplash) This is Capitalism podcast. 4th October 2018. BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p06my356 “Highlighting the epidemic of exceptionally capable professionals driven by a profound belief in their own inadequacy....
by sustainablesociety | Sep 8, 2018 | Politics
Why “I am literally a communist, you idiot.”* What is a communist? The Danger of Fascism. Technology. ‘Unpalatable Truths’ Private Property and Bourgeois Property. There must be an alternative…. To be a communist… Appendix 1 Class. Appendix 2 Marx and Philosophy –...
by sustainablesociety | Aug 31, 2018 | Politics
Douglas Murray in ‘The Suicide of Europe’ argues that European civilisation based on Greek philosophy, the Judeo-Christian tradition and of the Enlightenment is ‘staring into the abyss’ and is doing so because of its own actions, why? Mass Migration from Africa and...
by sustainablesociety | Jun 20, 2018 | Politics
Photo by Ye Jinghan on Unsplash We might expect dictatorships and countries with poor human rights records to flout human rights conventions, but we hold ourselves in the UK and the United States to higher standards due to claims about moral superiority and as...
by sustainablesociety | May 26, 2018 | Climate Change
Photo by Maid Milinkic on Unsplash The following outline of climate breakdown as a wicked problem (Rittel and Weber 1973) is based on a reading of Reinar Grundmann’s (2016) ‘Focus on Climate change and the social sciences’. The work of Jurgen Habermas (1984, 1987)...
by sustainablesociety | May 24, 2018 | Climate Change, Health, Politics
Photo by Ricardo Gomez Angel on Unsplash Sustainability – what can we in health services do? This appears to be a common question, perhaps indicating that the debate has moved on from questioning the scientific basis for both climate change and the data around...
