Humanising Safety and Embracing Real Risk
It seems that the moment one invokes the word ‘safety’ all ethical considerations become unimportant. We see evidence of this with comments that Islanders are less safe, and less intelligent for safety! .
How do people get away … Read the rest
This is the title of a good piece by McManus in Quillette (4.9.19). The perspective of McManus comes from Social Psychology and the Frankfurt School. The risk and safety world ought to be concerned about the allure of submission … Read the rest
The denial of fallibility in the language of zero offers no hope for fallible human beings. Hope is much more than a concept of wishing, naïve optimism nor some unrealistic sense of desire. Hope … Read the rest
An educated, healthy and confident nation is harder to govern
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Almost all education has a political motive, which promotes national, religious or social group interests at the expense of its detractors. It … Read the rest
One of the realities of maturity in fallibility is understanding finiteness, vulnerability and risk. The profession of infallibility is a sign of a mental health problem.
It’s because we don’t talk non-sense to ourselves that … Read the rest
