January 15, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
Debtor versus Creditor It is one of the oldest class divisions. The debtor and the creditor. When I was younger, I was told that debt and poverty only happened to the lazy and Riff-raff. The ‘lower’ class. There was such as stigma associated with being in debt, that...
January 12, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
We do not get to change the rules of biology and physics Yet this is what humanity, on its current trajectory, is attempting to do. We are trying to extract endlessly on a finite planet. We have on the ready weapons that obliterate life. We are forcing creatures to...
January 8, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
Life and syntropy are the greater forces As I write, I am surrounded by rain, my home high enough to be shrouded in clouds. The garden is happy. The avocado tree bursting with new leaves. I think about life. Aliveness. To be surrounded by green. To have the...
January 7, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Future of Business
Climate change is a class war It is the richest nations, the wealthiest people, and the biggest corporations that are the most egregious perpetrators when it comes to climate change. It is the poorest nations, the people on the margins of survival, that are at the...
January 6, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Verified facts and culture wars We reach into our grab bag of verified facts to throw as weapons against the other, often inadvertently unaware that our verified facts are stripped of all context. In doing so, we contribute to the culture war. I have been guilty of...
January 5, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Cultural Hegemony Is when the common people internalise the values, structures, systems and oppressions of the elite ruling class as their own. These rules and structures become normalised and unquestioned. This occurs in most societies slowly slowly. Little...
