But character changes, as action informs attitudes (and vice-versa) and a prosocial culture and consequent character is emergent.   Nigel Pocock . In a western world premised on a culture of denial of differences, is a concept of ‘national character’ meaningful? Or a basis for harmful stereotyping? Can we learn […]

Democracy weakens tyranny, and tyranny perpetuates disasters, by choking the cries of the poor and oppressed. All disasters are essentially man-made. The poor are always hit by far the worst.   Nigel Pocock   It might seem surprising to my readers to make the assertion that earthquakes and other ‘chance’ […]

Far from being a society of mature people, western culture encourages mass narcissism and infantilisation, in ever-increasing numbers.   Nigel Pocock   What is ‘community’? It is a noun, and has a verbal form, ‘communication’. This gives us the essence of a ‘community’, for it is nothing more or less […]

The Nazis hid their crimes behind the famous legend that ‘Work makes free’. Indeed! But both agreed that extermination was the only suitable outcome.   Nigel Pocock   It has long fascinated historians and others how such an apparently sophisticated society as ancient Rome could also be so barbaric, an […]

Because gene expression is profoundly affected by social impacts (both good and bad in terms of health and pathology), these impacts cannot be predicted. Adaptation is to the life of a revolutionary guerrilla living in the jungle, not to that of a peacemaker. Nigel Pocock In his  book, Professor Jan […]