Do we need props?
Some find our increased reliance on mental prosthetics troubling. Will a generation that can google everything, everywhere, grow up unable to remember anything?
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Watch what you tweet
I don’t think we can maintain a strict division between personal and professional life any more. The boundaries are blurring because we quite rightly no longer accept that business is business, and nothing more.
ReadWhat do we owe our parents?
How you can you be placed under an obligation when you did not agree to take it on? Generally speaking, we don’t think you can. If you accept an invitation to dinner, you have created some obligation to reciprocate. But if someone sends you an unsolicited gift, you are certainly not obliged to send one back.
ReadDon’t buy less, buy better
The narrative that Jesus came to save our economic skins was given extra credibility with news that retail sales in November were significantly up on last year, thanks to the shopping scrum that was Black Friday. This is a myth now more potent than the story of the baby of the manger. It persists, however, because it’s a story that is equally convenient for both defenders and detractors of the economic status quo.
ReadShould we meditate?
Some meditators may have powerful, perhaps even life-changing experiences. But that does not imply they have uncovered any profound truth which is beyond description.
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