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So long, Mrs T.

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

Margaret Thatcher’s death is more interesting for what it shows us about what is happening now, than for anything that may have happened 25 years ago. Here is my take Continue Reading →

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Alan Watts – “Creating Who You Are”

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

Some very deep insights here from Alan Watts, which also relate nicely to yesterday’s blog, “Why do things get in a muddle?”:

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Metalogue 2: Why do Frenchmen?

Posted on April 18, 2013 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

In this metalogue the daughter asks her father: “Daddy, why do Frenchmen wave their arms about?” This metalogue is a discussion about body language.

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Metalogue 1: “Why do things get in a muddle?”

Posted on April 17, 2013 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

If we want to develop new levels of thinking, as the Victorians had to develop new levels of understanding before they could tackle cholera, then there is no better place to Continue Reading →

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New problems require new thinking

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Posted on April 16, 2013 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

If we want different results we need to take different actions. Different actions require different plans. And to create different plans we need to think differently. People often say Finn Jackson Continue Reading →

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Food culture

Posted on April 11, 2013 by Finn Jackson

A couple of years ago I went on holiday in southern Spain. The food, of course, was fantastic, much of it organic. We decided to take the ferry over to Continue Reading →

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Time for the frog to jump

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

If you place a frog in hot water it will jump out. Place it in cold water and heat it, and the frog will boil to death. If the current Continue Reading →

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Life Support on Spaceship Earth

Posted on December 6, 2012 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

The Earth is a spaceship flying through space. It has a finite amount of resources and cannot be resupplied. Like all spaceships, it has a life-support system. We call our life-support Continue Reading →

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A realisation

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

CO2 is like an invisible blanket or duvet surrounding the earth. We have already created a duvet thick enough to warm the earth by two degrees, even if we stopped Continue Reading →

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Three bright lights

Posted on November 9, 2012 by Finn Jackson — Leave a reply

Here are three things, three symptoms, that seem to imply our culture is significantly changing direction.

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