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National character’: reality or nonsense?

19/12/2016

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 anything constructive about differences, if, indeed, they exist? . Nigel Pocock . Studies of neurogenesis and synaptogenesis (the life-long generation of new […]

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Community : Possible by individuation, destroyed by individualism

21/01/2013

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 […]

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