Pete’s blog

It is an age old question – why are we here? What is our purpose? Why do we exist? But I think it is a question we need to ask ourselves once again. Big corporates and advertising have convinced us that our purpose is to produce and consume. The more […]

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Going to try and challenge conventional wisdom this week and try and look at the current economic crisis from a different angle.
First going to look at deflation. Spoke a little about deflation in a previous blog about how it is a bad thing… but this time I’m going to argue that maybe it is […]

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Got an interesting one tonight, going to talk about both the HIV pandemic and climate change, and in the way I love best, at the same time I am also going to be talking about personal stuff too
Humans are fantastic at denial, living in the past, not changing with the times, getting stuck […]

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Finally, the long-awaited, long-in-the-draft-box, third email in the series about voting and governments.
This one is going to explore a key question: what do you expect a government to do? What is a government’s role and how involved should they be? One of the key political and philosophical debates that has once again been […]

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Happy New Year everyone. I’m back to the old tradition of the very unweekly email, it has been so long since the last one. I have one half finished mail still waiting from last month, hopefully you’ll get that one soon – it is the third in the series about choosing your governments.
But […]

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I was supposed to be writing about governments this week, but I had some desperate pleas from my friends to explain what on earth is going on with everything at the moment.
I’m just going to touch briefly on South Africa’s politics at the moment, maybe I will do a longer blog on it later if […]

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In June I started what was supposed to be a series about different types of government, unfortunately I got distracted and so part 2 is only coming to you now. However the follow-on has now become incredibly relevant. South Africa is seeing some very interesting democracy in action (for a quick comment on […]

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Going to delve into some post-Fordist Marxism here. Been thinking more about good people and how they fit into the workplace, and came up with an interesting perspective. One way of looking at the world is as a series of class struggles – Mr Marx was a big fan of this idea. […]

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It has been a while since I have written something arrogant and pretentious… ok it has been a while since I wrote anything… but just lately I have been having a lot of exposure to conflict between people and I started wondering what makes a good person, a nice person. Since I strive every […]

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The unweekly email is back! Getting an email every week from me was clearly unsustainable and was ruining the name ‘unweekly’ Want to write a bit about governments in the next few mails. Going to start with some thoughts about the worst form of government… except for all the others (thanks […]

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