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https://www.hughwillbourn.com/post/48-2023-the-year-of-enantiodromia

#48 2023: the year of Enantiodromia We find ourselves in a temporarily stable state of absurdity. Baroness Whitewash, the chair of the defiantly uncurious Inquiry is the perfect symbol of our time. Powerful the self-righteousness of the deluded is, as Yoda would put it. Behind the nonsense the usual predations of power continue. Those...

Hugh appeared on a podcast. Here's the link https://www.theflyingfrisby.com/p/the-bug-in-our-thinking
and here it is on You Tube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaIA5vQWb0g

Hugh Willbourn: the Bug in our Thinking Hugh is an author with experience in business, market research, psychotherapy, academia and performance. He has collaborated with Paul McKenna on many best-s...

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#36 A Decent Democracy “In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.” Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 'Table Talk' 5 October 1830 (1835) How come a poet, a romantic one at that, can skewer our politicians nearly two hundred years later? Here's an answer from a philosopher, “People nowadays think that scientists ...

A very short story from a splendid man - and nothing to do with c # # : https://www.hughwillbourn.com/post/31-the-foolish-policeman

#31 The Foolish Policeman We should all be grateful to Harry Miller. In 2019 Harry was told by the Humberside Police that some tweets he forwarded would be recorded as a ‘non-crime hate incident.’ Harry realised that 'recording a non-crime hate incident' was an infringement of his rights. It was also an over-reach of pol...