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 […]

Institutionalisation is the enemy (mixed motivation, fossilisation, bureaucratisation) and requires constant vigilance.   Nigel Pocock   As Steve Taylor observes, undue concern with offices, status, and hierarchy, at the expense of empathy, will destroy connection. Indeed, it will lead to disconnection and tyranny, narcissism, and abuse of power. This is […]

The more controversial aspect of Steve Taylor’s book is in the way in which ‘spirituality’ is put forward as the most powerful ‘cure’ for disconnection, and vice-versa, and what provides for connection and empathy.   Nigel Pocock   “Spirituality” is essentially the means by which a whole egocentric lifestyle can […]

In his recent book (“DisConnection”, 2023), Dr. Steve Taylor (Leeds Beckett University, UK), puts forward the deceptively simple thought, that a lack of empathy and connection between peoples, nations, governments and individuals, is what is facilitating abusive tyrants at every level.   Nigel Pocock   This is driven by a […]