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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