Unmaking Sense

A brief deviation into astronomy as we explore the geometry of the solstices and equinoxes.

Pursuing our passions and interests is the best way to acquire habits of lifelong learning.

We owe everything to society, but that doesn’t mean society has a right to control our lives. What we owe society most is that we become the best version we can of ourselves.

More nuanced discussion of why process is more important than outcome, travelling than arriving, enjoying the present than planning the future.

Why arguments against interest-driven education make unwarranted assumptions about what we are supposed to need to know.

A lament about changing platforms.

The first Podbean episode recorded while walking local country lanes.

How can “Living the Present” be the best way to prepare for the future; indeed, the only way to prepare for the future? We explore John Dewey’s notion that only by extracting as much as we can from the present can we prepare for the future, because to do anything else is self-contradictory. 

As a UK General Election looms we look not at conservative economics but at the political, sociological and metaphysical assumptions that characterise them; at why John Dewey rejected them all, and why we should too.

As general elections loom in the UK and France, as the Euros start in Germany, we consider the question of self-inflicted stress and trauma and why, when things seem to be going swimmingly well, we seem to have a propensity to indulge a kind of death-wish. This is a First World problem, of course: are we simply bored?