BLOG COMMENTS May 7, 2008
Posted by wmmbb in Blogging in general.add a comment
There are not any complicated rules for comments here for the very good reason that there are very few, but very much appreciated, comments. By the way, the rules that apply to comments apply equally to posts. I was passing by Tom Peters blog, and Cathy there advanced a rule that I thought was really appropriate, the living room rule. I know it is a virtual world, but sometimes we are communicating with other people. Sometimes this works, and that is the miracle of language. Sometimes it doesn’t and that is the problem of language.
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PEOPLE BEFORE PROFITS May 7, 2008
Posted by wmmbb in Humankind/Planet Earth.add a comment
There were some big ideas missing from the recent 2020 Ideas Summit among which are putting people over profits and communities (and human needs) over corporations. When we think globally in these terms it becomes more apparent what role that Australia should play in the world.
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SCOTLAND AND THE FLAG May 7, 2008
Posted by wmmbb in Australian Politics.add a comment
Australia is, as Gordon Reid observed many years ago, for all intents and purposes a frozen continent with respect to its Constitution. The provisions relating to changing the constitution make change unlikely and slow. The result is that instead of having rational democratic change, we have change from the top or change due to circumstances, usually emergencies. It is not insignificant that 1942 was a year of significant constitutional change. The vestiges of the imperial majesty still remain in the anachronism of the Governor-General (I much prefer Captain-General, the rank of Governor Phillip). Happenings in a foreign land across the seas can still have repercussions.
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