“I don’t believe in God, but I miss him.” — Julian Barnes
Apparently Mahatma Gandhi never actually said “you must be the change you want to see in the world”, but it feels like he did because he lived this message, and the idea is as powerful and…
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.
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…
In part one we considered the logic of consumerism in the context of human needs and our current imaginary. In part two we considered what it might take to reshape the imaginary through alternate social and emotional logics with greater intrinsic value. And in…
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…
“The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this…
