Fake News

“Fake News” is not new. Good comrades all my life have sat around analysing how the establishment has been lying to us. It was generally accepted that the news was fake, what the establishment wanted, and how we had to be careful what we believed, how we were conditioned. Sadly in my job as a …

Fake News Censorship and Discernment

I am now a committed writer, and at the beach I was thinking about efforts to finish Matriellez and the Treatise. Since starting Matriellez there has been the emergence of the right – Trump Brexit and elsewhere. Fake News had been originally the accusation of leftie conspiracy theorists like me, but it has now become …

Questions or Enquiry

I just received this link in which a teacher was promoting the asking of questions and developing a teaching strategy for this. His strategy appears to me to be asking questions for questions sake, and surprisingly enough this is not always learning. It reminds me of a boy I met in care. There was nothing …

Leadership

Our understanding of leadership is dominated by our egos. I recently saw this article about leaders in schools, and for me it completely missed the point. A good leader is an enabler. A leader works with the people s/he leads bringing the best out of all of them. Why is this even questioned? Because of …

A free slave?

I began thinking about slavery in meditation yesterday. Have I always been free? This question is the wrong way round:- Have I ever been free? Have I always been a slave? Discounting my childhood as I was definitely not free to make decisions then as I was not developed enough, life decisions came when I …