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State of the World

Justified and Ancient: unearthing the roots of human insecurity

We live in a highly manipulated, insecure world, where justification of who and what we are is mandatory and normalised.

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  The world I live in

  Can you live in this crazy world but not be a product of the world?

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  The race to the bottom

  Modern human life is not working. Many people are suffering, but too few are questioning the callousness that has entered our societies.

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  Complexity

  Does life really have to be so complex?

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  The state of our health

  Worldwide, people tend to rely on medical systems and science to explain and treat illness and disease. But what’s our part at the individual level?

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  Fake news is not new news

  Is fake news really such a modern phenomenon or are we distracting ourselves by making social medial the scapegoat for a bigger problem?

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  You can hide but you can’t run

  What do we have to learn from the ‘hikikomori’ of Japan? Could they be showing us that we have taken the current model of life too far?

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  Mission statements and other works of fiction

  What is a mission statement? Does it really mean anything?

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  There’s no reality in reality TV

  Does television steer more of your life than you’d care to admit? And is there really any such thing as reality in TV?

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  The unspoken pandemic

  There is an unspoken pandemic killing hundreds of thousands of people a year with millions more succumbing to its ill effects.

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  Much ado about.... lockdown

  What if there are some benefits to Lockdown?