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The next post will be about religion. Chapter 5 is titled "Religion in the new world".
The revolution in education
Chapter 4 of the Open Conspiracy book This is a very short chapter in which Wells vents his frustration with the education he received, which, he felt, did not prepare him for “the new world that dawns” and left him to his own devices to find the way to the
We have to clear and clean up our minds
The third chapter of the Open Conspiracy book Why now? Why have we awakened now to the need to live our lives in a new way and to remake governing and governance – the way we manage human affairs? Wells’s awakening came from WWI. During the last couple of decades,
The idea of the open conspiracy
The second chapter of the Open Conspiracy book “It seemed to me that all over the world intelligent people were waking up to the indignity and absurdity of being endangered, restrained, and impoverished, by a mere uncritical adhesion to traditional governments, traditional ideas of economic life, and traditional forms of
In memory of John Doyle
On Saturday 19 July I got news that my friend and colleague John Doyle had passed in his sleep the previous night. His WhatsApp status said “last seen today 00.00”. It was totally unexpected, shocking and incredibly sad at the same time. Sudden deaths are brutal for those who
On The Present Crisis in Human Affairs
The first chapter of the Open Conspiracy book Hindsight is a wonderful thing. The Open Conspiracy was written at a time when the First World War had not managed to quell the bloodthirstiness of European nationalisms and the world was about to enter the Great Depression. It was a time
The Open Conspiracy: out there to be discovered
The open conspiracy is a book by H G Wells. It was first published in 1928. Its title is intriguing. Self-contradictory. Openness and conspiracy do not mix well. How can a conspiracy be open? I came across it in a charity shop in Stirling, Scotland. The title caught my eye.