Menhirs, Silent Witnesses Of Our Human History
Menhirs are lurking just on the edge of our cities, on a border between landscape, history and legend. A universal significance far beyond origin or function.
Menhirs are lurking just on the edge of our cities, on a border between landscape, history and legend. A universal significance far beyond origin or function.
The Past used to be carefully curated, enshrined, slightly dusty gallery of exhibits. While we tend to mesh timelines, it is more and more an open-air mine of ideas, choices, opportunities. Wrongly done, it could become a sterile endless loop of recycled ideas, done right, we can create new elements by recombining the essence of the best of it. The Past could be the new future.
Among the wreckage of the Liz Truss’s premiership, one minister not only left with her dignity intact, but she embodied...
Energy is now a luxury. The social and economic infrastructure built over the past 70 years is cracking at the seams. There seem to be no solutions offered, except to give up and go back to the Middle Ages. Europe is ungracefully aging.
What will the people think? What will they remember about me? A common worry, even when we don’t care. Maybe...
Political scandals come slushing down the hill like a mudslide. Affronted indignity seems to be the standard reaction of all politicians. And so, the public trust erodes even further.
There are many universal threats out there, but where is the universal vision? No wonder the facts and statistics show we stop voting and actively avoid the news.
Are we living in a modern version of the early 1900s?
Here you can read the theoretical approach behind my previous article “The Price We Pay”.
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