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Tuesday, October 23, 2018
What do we mean by ‘success’? Do ethnic minorities have a problem achieving this, compared with the population as a whole? Are there things that block the way to ‘success’ in a secular culture, and how can this be achieved? Nigel Pocock While the notion of ‘ethnic minorities’ […]
The first listeners of this story were amazed, and in disbelief. For surely the rich were the most blessed of all? Today’s listeners no less. But why? – – Nigel Pocock – What might the ‘needle’ represent in today’s world? How come a massive camel can pass through ‘more easily’? […]
I want to propose that the notion of ‘mindsets’ as developed by Carol Dweck (Professor of Psychology, Stanford) has a relevance to understanding and helping the victims of the slave trade. Nigel Pocock Eighteenth century planters and slavers were of a ‘fixed mindset’, despotic, tyrannical, cruel, inflexible, with […]
Is violence decreasing worldwide? This is the question addressed by Steven Pinker (professor of psychology, Harvard), to which he answers a resounding, albeit qualified, 800 page ‘Yes!’ Nigel Pocock For hundreds of years violence has been dropping, even if there are huge spikes in the downward graph caused […]
“Do not go gentle into that good night/ Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Thus are the closing lines of Dylan Thomas’ extraordinarily powerful poem. Nigel Pocock But is he right? Should people, in order to die well, ‘rage against the dying of the light’? I […]
