Philosophy
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Expert culture has killed the innovator in workplaces
Over the last few decades, the Western world has had an increasingly specialised workforce, with workers…
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Degrees of separation: companies shed degree requirements to promote merit over qualifications
At the end of 2016, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that close to two-thirds…
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Lifetime Employment in Japan: Casual Work, Part-Time Work and Women under Equal Opportunity Law
Lifetime employment has long been the cornerstone of corporate governance in Japan. College graduates at large…
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The Election of Donald Trump Sounds the Death Noll for Privilege and Identity Politics
It’s May 26, 2016 and Donald J. Trump attends a presidential rally in Bismarck, North Dakota.…
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How Specialisation is Destroying My Generation
Gertrude Stein originally called those who returned from World War I a ‘lost generation’, disoriented, wandering…
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The Non-Coercive State: The Creation of Pacifist Societies
In Political Liberalism, John Rawls argues that, “political power is always coercive power backed by the…
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Pokemon Go, Augmented Reality and the Future of Technology
In 1974, the philosopher Robert Nozick came up with the idea of an ‘experience machine’, a…
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On Advertising and the Loss of Free Will
In his treatise on free will, philosopher Sam Harris claims that if an act is formulated…
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How Physical Proximity (and Social Psychology): Can Prevent Racism, Sexism and Discrimination in Our Society
In previous centuries divisions of society were mended and band-aided by communal meeting areas: Churches, Synagogues,…
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The Media, Moral Rage and Moral Condemnation
Reading the letters of old writers and poets from previous centuries, you get the sense that…
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