The Impact of Hyper-rationality on Men’s Hearts and the Way Out.
Paper delivered to the 6th Conference of Psychotherapists and Counsellors for Social Responsibility, entitled ‘Men, Patriarchy and Mental Health’, London 6th May 2017, © Nick Duffell.
I am responding to a brief about how we might go ‘beyond consumerism’, which is much harder than it sounds. Consumerism is deeply problematic, but despite its obvious limitations, harms and absurdities, it is remarkably difficult to displace as our default…
Like all social constructs, the market could be different: we have created the market and we can change it. It may not be possible to imagine a world without a market, but it is possible to think of one where the market helps to discourage greed, selfishness, cynicism and exploitation, rather than…
I ended part one with a rhetorical question and a promissory note about how we might wake up, and go ‘beyond consumerism’.
The first thing to say is that we are already beyond consumerism, but in a diffuse, localised and mostly private…
How parenting and politics are linked
Yesterday I received a text from my wife Siva just after leaving my office: “Apparently Pirsig died today.”
I stopped in my tracks and noticed that the space created by sadness was filling up with joy. There was solidarity with the man himself, knowing his…
Tonight I’m speaking on BBC Radio 4’s Moral Maze programme about ‘virtue signalling’.
The Moral Maze is a very particular kind of show with a courtroom vibe, and it tends to be more combative than Socratic in spirit. Still, it should be a rewarding…
In part one we examined the extraordinary tenacity of consumerism despite the evidence against it, and in part two we alighted on the idea that in order to go ‘beyond consumerism’ it might be necessary to improve what German Philosopher Metzinger calls “the…
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