A long Road to Travel
In recent years, the Irish electorate has legalised gay marriage, has a gay leader, has overwhelmingly voted in favour of repealing the Eight Amendment’ and generally moved out from being under the di ...
Category Archives: Open Society
Children
When we consider the future and the future of the future, it can all be overwhelming, dizzying and almost frightening. But, yet a brief glance at the things we can now do, the capacity we have develop ...
Past Ignorance
So, you’re middle aged, your parent or grandparent is in their 80s…you’re halfway there. While you appreciate that 80+ years is not a short period of time, as you enter into the seco ...
The Room in the market for OPEN
Most everyone agrees that there is a role for a Market economy and that there is a role for social provision of services. The landscape of politics is largely concerned with degrees of involvement, fr ...
Combinatorial Technologies
Two undoubted upcoming realities of technological advance are technological underemployment and technological unemployment, the transition from agriculture through the industrial revolution did see a ...
Letting them Fall – The Greatest Urgency of Now
Letting them Fall The Greatest Urgency of Now It’s arguably the worst condition that affects humanity. It comes to most all of us. It turns the possibility of youth into an ever increasing list of thi ...
Abundance
Prior to to the Industrial Revolution most people toiled away in various roles on the land. The calendar of festivals in most countries as well as much else in folk tradition originates from the harve ...
Economy and Danger
The world of 2008 underwent a major financial failure. A review of modern history will show, that these following years have much potential to be a very dangerous time, also. One warning sign of the d ...
World Union – How Part 2
In the previous post I argued for a maturing of international relations by providing and empowering a global forum in which relative safety might be found for conducting the business of international ...
World Union – Why (part 1)
The realities of existence must have seemed to be one of inescapable doom to those left in Europe in 1945. A half century of unimaginable human tragedy; pogroms, holocausts, extreme and confident idea ...