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ideas
These blog post are about broad ideas that relate to the themes and concerns of choose the future!
Sun
21
Nov
2021
tipping society onto a new path
There's a great article by George Monbiot about mechanism for social change. The article wanders around a bit, but it eventually gets to some good points.
The point of the article is that new ideas can reach a critical level of penetration that causes the whole of society to suddenly “flip” to a new ideological position.
Tue
06
Jul
2021
the value of common sense
Here’s an interesting quote to consider:
“Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.”
This sounds flippant enough to have come from Oscar Wilde, but it’s actually attributed to Albert Einstein.