Asked by:Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?
What should we be explicitly teaching the next generation that we’re not?
I’m curious as to what others wished they had learnt in school and what they think our young people need to learn to cope/thrive in the future. I work as an educator and constantly question the relevance of what I’m teaching. What do we assume (most, some, all?) kids will naturally learn, but in fact they’d all benefit from explicitly being taught?
Has social media made activism less effective?
Adding a signature to an e-petition or sharing a post to support a cause on Facebook has become second nature to us, and they fill our news feeds. The internet and social media has made it incredibly easy to create a noise.
But does the sharing and e-signing actually make a difference? Was activism more effective in ‘simpler times’? Google something like the anti-conscription rallies in Melbourne during World War I, or the petition by women wanting the right to vote. This was activism on a scale we don’t see any more, and yet we’re more aware and there’s no shortage of people. So has social media made our activism lazier? Were we simply more bored ‘back in the day’ and staged large protests? Is social media both the best thing and the worst thing when it comes to effective activism?
Asked by:Will occupants of driverless cars be far less safe if sharing the road with human drivers?
I’ve been thinking about automated vehicles lately and wondering if, in order for visions of their ideal function are to be realised, cities/societies will need to change wholesale – rather than incrementing as people slowly adopt new technologies/models.
Asked by:We are all concerned about global warming yet we only act against pollutant gases and not against actual heat generated by man’s activities?
Will there always be a European Union and a UN, or have these kind of collective endeavours lost their way under 21st century individualism?
Asked by:Why are there so many Self Help Books?
Asked by:How will the world end?
How can we build a social consensus to enable us to constructively and urgently combat runaway climate change?
Why is it that everybody seems to be searching for true and fair friends, but so few people are apparently willing to be that for others?
Should “Go Set a Watchman” have been published?
I am perturbed by the conflicting stories around whether Harper Lee actually consented to publication. And that plays with a bigger question in my mind about artist’s legacies and what happens to their unpublished or unreleased work posthumously.
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