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How do we know what is true?

May 25, 2023 by Richard Eckersley

So, how do we know what is true in today’s world? The answer is with great difficulty; and by being sceptical, tolerant, open-minded, vigilant, and determined.

Categories Society, Society featured Tags belief in progress, building resilient societies, cultural stories, disinformation, truth Leave a comment

Earth vs. Futurism

November 29, 2022 by Rupert Read

Longtermism is a lullaby sung to the tune of tired fantasies of human exceptionalism. It is anaesthesia for the age of consequences. 

Categories Environment, Society Tags building resilient societies, climate justice movements, longtermism, truth Leave a comment

Do You Want to Know the Truth?

November 16, 2022November 15, 2022 by Rupert Read

Do you really want to know the truth; are you really willing to let it in, to be changed by it? My hope is to demonstrate that the answer must, simply must, be: Yes.

Categories Act: Inspiration, Act: Inspiration featured, Environment, Society, Society featured Tags climate change activism, climate change responses, truth Leave a comment

Authenticity

November 18, 2020 by Frederic Jennings

Why is it that “authenticity” must be stressed and supported? What is it in our culture that makes honesty special – in need of vital resuscitation? Does no one else see it as strange?

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Hannah Arendt and the politics of truth

October 28, 2020 by Samantha Rose Hill

Truth isn’t political. If anything it is anti-political, since historically it has often been positioned against politics. Truth-tellers have always stood outside the political realm as the object of collective scorn.

Categories Society, Society featured Tags facts, Politics, resilient societies, truth 1 Comment

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