Abolition Acts continued to be re-written and re-applied right up until the early 1900s. The effects are still with us. Nigel Pocock African-Caribbean slaves are the largest group that have not been compensated for the suffering and abuse they underwent for 400 years (c. 1450-1850). This might seem […]
Needle’s Eye
Computational power vs. wisdom?
On 6th of January BBC1 News reported that research shows that brain ‘power’ starts to decay earlier than was thought … Reasoning powers diminish from age 40 or so… Nigel Pocock Is an implied brain ‘power’ only about ‘reasoning’? This statement is extremely simplistic; making good judgements is […]
Does multiculturalism have a future?
The answer to this question must surely be ‘yes’. This is true, even if it is an involuntary one. . Nigel Pocock . Only the very long-term future, hundreds of years hence, when then is likely to be a monoculture, and everyone looks the same – or a total restriction […]
Multiculturalism: Creative new society, or a dead ‘tolerance’?
Taken on its own, the term ‘multicultural society’ has no practical use. It is a non-criticisable and non-falsifiable chameleon that changes its colour with its environment. That is, unless it is made predictable, at least for the purposes of testing. Nigel Pocock We might, for example, wish to […]
Integration and the limits of tolerance
Clearly the issue of multiculturalism is ultimately about social change. This is together with the capacity to live in a ‘tolerant’ way with other groups that hold diametrically opposing beliefs. . Nigel Pocock . But what if these groups believe in tyranny, whether of theocracy, materialism, secularism or of any […]
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