by Shaun Chamberlin | Nov 4, 2022 | All Posts, Articles
Originally written as my contribution to the Jihlava Inspiration Forum book, October 2022
The following is my response to the invitation for a brief 1,000 word reflection on the topic:
"How should we transform our relationships for the future? And what can each of us do about it?"
Transforming our relationship ~with~ the future
"The crisis we face is fundamentally one of relating"
The more deeply I reflect on these words from the extraordinary Eve Annecke, the more truth they reveal.
And indeed, useful truth… of that special kind that opens real, practical paths for transforming our future. [i]
That said, I must be clear.
My own dark optimism does not permit me to convey the popular idea that our future can be “anything we dream”; nor even that it will be bright, at least in any common sense of the word. Quite to the contrary, our time is one of lessons long ignored coming back to bite.
Our time is one in which the common assumption that our children will be better off than us has already quietly reversed. One in which the hard consequences to hubris come starkly into view, even as we stubbornly insist that our destiny is off-world, exploring the stars...
by Shaun Chamberlin | Aug 26, 2022 | Uncategorized
Ofgem have today announced the latest so-called ‘energy price cap’, in effect confirming that UK energy bills will rise by 80% this October 1st, meaning they will have tripled in the past 18 months. Almost every household in the UK will already be aware of...
by Shaun Chamberlin | Nov 20, 2020 | All Posts
It is all too easy to get caught up in current events today, with the U.S. president scheming to discredit his own country’s election results, COVID-19 resurgent in many countries, social upheaval and natural disasters continuing to worsen with each passing...
by Shaun Chamberlin | Nov 9, 2020 | All Posts, Cultural stories, David Fleming, Economics, Lean Logic
By now most readers of my blog will be familiar with my late mentor’s masterwork Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It. You might though be less familiar with LeanLogic.online, which is now ready for its full launch! This is a lovingly...
by Shaun Chamberlin | Apr 30, 2020 | All Posts, Articles
Originally published in the Spring 2020 edition of STIR magazine
Extracts from David Fleming's extraordinary, posthumous Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future and How to Survive It (Chelsea Green, 2016). Selected for this issue by its editor Shaun Chamberlin. Endnotes omitted.
Asterisks mark words with their own separate entry in the dictionary. Any of these can be read in full and for free at the newly-launched LeanLogic.online
Expectations. The attitudes and assumptions which shape the way we make sense of events and plan our response. Unless our expectations are right, or at least expressed as a considered set of probabilities, we plan to fail. But, right or wrong, expectations are self-reinforcing, for we see what we expect to see. We may not realise how critical expectations are in guiding perception, but they are decisive. In the context of our perception of *art, the art historian E.H. Gombrich reminds us of . . .
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