Jan
31
2018
(from my book Our Terrible/Wonderful Future)
We have become so skilled at resolving cognitive dissonance by telling ourselves fabrications and myths of one kind and another, our society as a whole, perhaps more than any other before, has become a willing...
Jan
25
2018
Strange how many people think of themselves as rational but base their whole lives on completely irrational and unquestioned axioms. Biblical fundamentalists think Genesis is literally true despite overwhelming evidence that it isn’t. Free trade fundamentalists won’t have government...
Jan
22
2018
My friend Robert, a resolute Leaver, has sent me Daniel Hannan's book What Next, an intelligent presentation of the Brexit case which I've read with great interest. What Hannah wants is just what I want - part of a...
Jan
21
2018
Letter to my local MP. Dear Jake. I enclose a copy of my book 'Our Terrible/Wonderful Future'. Please don't write back as I don't want another of the bland, evasive letters that MP's are so skilled in writing. Yes...
Jan
19
2018
from The Guardian's A Long Read 26i18
In 1979, Bernard Lefkowitz, then a well-known American journalist, published Breaktime: Living Without Work in a Nine to Five World, a book based on interviews with 100 people who had given up their...
Jan
03
2018
Thanks to everybody who has joined Twenty Years son facebook so far. Please spread word. The thing that interests me is why when you meet people, except complete dotties, nobody thinks climate change isn't a great threat or that...