In his book Good Work, the economic thinker E.F.Schumacher describes the ‘longing for freedom’ that has become so widespread in society today: I don’t want to join the rat race. Not be enslaved by machines, bureaucrats, boredom, ugliness. I don’t want to be a moron, robot, commuter. I don’t want to become a fragment of […]
When I was a kid in primary school we had to sit a General Knowledge test. There were 20 questions, and the question that stumped us all was the last one; “What’s the name of the lady who cleans our classroom every afternoon?” We all thought it was a bit of a joke question. We […]
“May you live in interesting times” is an old Chinese curse. And so it is today – in the era of COVID – with change as the only constant. Like immigrants into a new time, there are no signposts pointing the way forward. There is no how-to instruction manual. There is a lack of precedent, […]
