What, Why & How do we Know ?
Fascinating responses to this Grauniad CiF piece on Jordan Peterson – introducing him to new people who’ve maybe heard he has a fan base as well as vocal detractors. The kind of controversy that sells tickets. Now don’t get me wrong, I do do obsessive fandom of humans I love from afar, but I’m no … Continue reading “Fan Base vs Actually Listening to Content”
I’ve cited (for example only) C J Werleman and Anne-Marie Waters as activist-commentators who undoubtedly “get it” and are undoubdtedly committed to making change for the better for all of us, however flawed their individual approaches. Helping to escape the mess we’re sliding into. And I say that even though both engage in the kind of … Continue reading “Israel & the Middle-East Problem”
Interestingly, one of the BHA’s “Thought for the Commute” posters is Peter Tatchell saying: “The Beatles were right, All you need is love.” I couldn’t agree more. One of my long-running threads here on Psybertron goes by the tag #whatsofunnybout (peace, love and understanding). It’s at root behind my three rules of dialogue – (Respect, … Continue reading ““All You Need Is Love” – a profoundly religious statement of faith in humanity @bhahumanists”
Interesting. Not sure it says much about the religion vs science debate, but it does say a lot about effective styles of interaction. If you go in “taking the piss” and showing your audience no respect, I’m not sure you can expect your audience to show any respect to you or what you might have to … Continue reading “Blackmore Walkout”
I posted an initial response to Grayson Perry’s Reith #1 and added a short post-note after #2. Yesterday was #3 on the place of shock amongst other things in the leading edge of artistic development. (Didn’t manage to blog yesterday – after a couple of days away, I came back to a WordPress 3.7 upgrade … Continue reading “Limits of Shock”
Interesting little diagram on levels of argumentation – aimed at internet social-media commenters and tweeters who rarely have time to think of how their arguments are framed. (Post Note – This builds on an earlier draft post – published more recently. Now Fully consolidated in this “Rules of Engagement” page.) Like all such things – … Continue reading “How to Argue (on the Internet)”
Interesting to contrast yesterday’s UK parliamentary knock-about between Milliband and Campbell with Obama’s call for healing in the rhetorical wars between US partizan politicians and commentators. Blaming opponents for “all that ails the world” was unhelpful, he said. Cameron and Milliband were downright personal in trading insults of each other and their colleagues – despite … Continue reading “Wound or Heal ?”
PSYBERTRON’S MANIFESTO This page retains links to the origins of this blogging project back in 2001, and is organized in three parts: Who is Psybertron? What is Psybertron’s Worldview generally? What is Psybertron’s Agenda specifically? WHO? Ian Glendinning (Psybertron)’s profile and contact details here. (2001 vintage page, with only Resume content updated.) [Personal “Thought Journey” … Continue reading “Manifesto”