It’s almost ironic, I found, that fascist women need more descriptive effort than fascist men (in the picture provided). Their roles are more complex and self-contradictory, since they are ostensibly aligned with nurturing and sustaining life rather than with the blunt dehumanization and domination that fascism demands. Besides, Meloni is the only one in the picture with almost nothing at stake. Yet, her recent call to abolish sex education for children doesn’t go down well…
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Most of us probably feel the same way. In the US, Trump, his family, J.D. Vance and the rest of MAGA acolytes should be removed from office, tarred and feathered, publicly shamed and tried for treason, not to mention all their other crimes and transgressions that fill lifetimes. After the historic Trump debacle, American democracy must be rebuilt on stronger foundations. Trump and many of his supporters belong in jail. We are far from seeing…
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These days, processing the news is sheer mental pain. The latest example is the suggestion of a real-life version of the ‘Hunger Games’ film series, under the headline ‘US government considers participation in citizenship reality TV show’. This revelling in the pain and misery of others, this joy in humiliating others, is perverse. Meanwhile, people are dying in Ukraine from Russian drone attacks, while Netanyahu is pushing ahead with ethnic cleansing and Trump is dreaming…
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There is little point in commenting on Trump’s latest ever-changing escapades. Creating confusion is his trademark, and he has apparently lost his way in it. By now, it should have become blatantly clear to everyone, at least since Trump started trade wars with the rest of the world, that he is a mentally challenged individual, utterly incompetent to fulfill his duties as President of the United States of America. He is a bad fish, dragging…
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‘Americans love our Nazi crap,’ a good friend who had been traveling in the USA for a long time once told me about the many Americans who collect Nazi memorabilia. When I recommended the series ‘The Man in the High Castle’, based on the novel of the same name by Philip K. Dick (1962), to an American friend, she waved me off. It was hitting too close to home. In the novel, the Japanese and…
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How we fail to stop planetary decline Despite scientific knowledge and a widely accepted consensus that we have crossed six out of nine planetary tipping points, there is a notable absence of evidence that this has translated into collective rational behaviour. Conversely, in the majority of developed economies, a considerable demographic, predominantly aligned with ultra-conservative and right-wing ideologies, advocate for the postponement or even abandonment of the transformative twin transformation of digital and ecological change,…
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When it comes to simple knowledge acquisition, learning is simple: Just read the damn book! You read it and I give you a test on it tomorrow – so stay on your toes! What is even more fabulous is that you have no say in such a learning process, neither in its purpose, its learning goal, whether it makes any sense to you whatsoever or not, nor whether filling out a multiple-choice test on critical…
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How does AI determine social practice? Yesterday, I was talking to a mother who was deeply upset about the perceived unfair treatment of her son. In a school essay, her son, whom I know personally and to whom I attribute a high level of intelligence, was graded significantly lower than the essay of a classmate who is known for doing his homework with AI. My first assumption was that the underlying format of the exam…
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More often than not, my co-founder and I feel like Bill Gates in the famous 1995 video where he attempts to describe the Internet to David Letterman. The funniest part of Windows 95 was the flying toasters, not that our world would change forever. It is hard to explain our new paradigm, but I shall try. A New Paradigm of Process-Based Social Learning In a nutshell, we can model all formal human learning processes in…
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When it comes to organizational learning, I have identified three essential social resonance spaces that play a critical role in collaborative value creation: personal resonance, team resonance and system resonance. All three social resonance spaces intersect in different modes of exchange and development. Why ‘resonance’ rather than ‘relationship’? Firstly, resonance implies that we all have social resonance to begin with, including ourselves. We may not be in a relationship, but all people carry the inner…
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