A discussion forum for all things related to my book, 'Making Sense of Us', which explores how we can reach a better understanding of one another, ourselves, and indeed everything else!
Like many of you, I suspect, I have over this past holiday period experienced a turmoil of emotions. The massacre of schoolchildren and their teachers in Connecticut, the killing of firefighters at Webster, the horrible rape-murders in India, the murder...
Read moreThis needed saying; it could scarcely be better said. Please read it! http://nilanjanaroy.com/2012/12/29/for-anonymous/ We've still got a long way to go . . . John
Read moreIn quite a few of my earlier posts I have touched on our ability to disregard our responsibility towards one another. In the last couple of days the relevance of such a message has been epitomized by the reports from London (via the BBC) of the contribution...
Read moreToday, November 28th., there is on 3quarksdaily a very interesting article by Jay Tolson, commenting on a recent book by Jim Holt (Why Does The World Exist), also available directly from: http://theamericanscholar.org/questions-of-being/ Apart from the...
Read moreA couple of posts ago I referred briefly to Auguste Comte and led you to expect that I would return to discuss what he saw as the third phase of humankind's journey towards understanding of itself. Those of you who followed my advice to refer to Wikipedia...
Read moreThe title of this post is simply another way of impressing on all of us that our very survival as a species will depend on the degree to which we can contrive truly to see ourselves as if from the outside. It also depends on how far we can allow ourselves...
Read moreIt is quite likely that very few readers of this blog will have read Making Sense of Us in its entirety, so I am once more faced with the dilemma that I identified in several of my earlier, and indeed recent posts. How can I adequately connect with readers...
Read moreSome time ago I commented very briefly on the form of presentation confronting the readers of this blog. Like many others, this site puts the most recent posting at the top of the cumulative list of postings. Since many of the posts refer to earlier posts,,...
Read moreReaders of this blog will be familiar with the hesitations and procrastinations that seem inevitably to precede any particular posting that I hazard to publish. In that respect this particular post is no different, but it explains more fully than I have...
Read moreSince publishing my last post, I've been discovering the enormous value of articles published in the two recent (and inaugural) issues of Human Figurations, the on-line periodical recently initiated by the people at the Norbert Elias Foundation. Specifically,...
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