Peripheral Vision

a celebration of intellectual trespassing by a retired "social scientist" as he tries to make sense of the world..... Gillian Tett puts it rather nicely in her 2021 book “Anthro-Vision” - “We need lateral vision. That is what anthropology can impart: anthro-vision”.

Saturday, January 8, 2022

Deep Scepticism

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I haven’t, so far in this blog, deigned “ Fake news ” with a single post although I have referred to the increasing polarization in societie...
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Wednesday, January 5, 2022

Patterns of the Mind

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Some 18 months ago I noticed a strange omission in the blog – no discussion of climate change . Rather lamely, I tried to explain this blog...
Saturday, January 1, 2022

Important Blog Features

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Yesterday I released a little book – which you can find as the lead item in the list of E-books in the top-right corner of the blog. It’s ca...
Friday, December 31, 2021

A New Year gift for my readers

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This is the time of year when blogs and websites offer their “picks” of the year – what they consider to be the highlights they’ve offered. ...
Tuesday, December 28, 2021

The new face of power

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  There are very few of us who dare to challenge technological change. Most of us fear the ridicule involved – being the targets of taunts o...
Saturday, December 25, 2021

The political incorrectness of cultural explanations

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“I am convinced that the luckiest of geographic circumstances and the best of laws cannot maintain a constitution in despite of mores, where...
Thursday, December 16, 2021

What will it take to rekindle our lost faith in the political process?

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This is the time of year I devote to reviewing the year’s posts to see what sort of sense they make. Two years ago – on noticing a few commo...
Wednesday, December 15, 2021

Military Madness

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  According to the Doomsday Clock we are only 100 seconds from nuclear catas trophe – the shortest point for which this disaster has been pr...
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Bran-Rucar corridor, Carpathian mountains..., Romania
Can be contacted at bakuron2003@yahoo.co.uk Political refugee from Thatcher's Britain (or rather Scotland) who has been on the move since 1991. First in central Europe - then from 1999 Central Asia and Caucasus. Working on EU projects - related to building capacity of local and central government. Home base is an old house in the Carpathian mountains
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