Anthony Judge
Strategic Implications of 12 Unasked Questions in Response to Disaster
Produced on the occasion of publication of an analysis of What Went Wrong in Afghanistan (Foreign Policy, March/April 2013)
and of investigation of the Boston Marathon bombings (April 2013)
Checklist of questions
1. What questions have not been asked?
2. Is any checklist of questions, asked and unasked, maintained as a source of collective learning?
3. Who ensured that the unasked questions were designed off the table?
4. What agenda is served by not asking particular questions?
5. What pressures are applied to those endeavouring to ask those questions, and what penalties result from asking them?
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Apr 19
Anthony JudgeJudge
Dynamic Transformation of Static Reporting of Global Processes
Suggestions for process-oriented titles of global issue reports
EXTRACT
Given the increasingly disastrous “state of the world”, and that foreseen for the future, it is appropriate to ask whether another language might enable meaning to be carried otherwise — and potentially more imaginatively and fruitfully. There is clearly a fundamental problem with respect to the relationship between states of any kind — one which obscures consideration of the dynamics which may be vital to the essence of meaning. This is only too evident in the case of Israel-Palestine, India-Pakistan, North Korea-South Korea, and the like — as with the “two-state solutions” proposed in the first case.
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With respect to enhancing insight into the dynamic, a striking innovation in “turning statistics into knowledge” — with the slogan “unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world” — has been offered by the Gapminder initiative, within the context of the OECD Global Project on Measuring the Progress of Societies. A provocatve case might however be made for re-imaging “statistics” — as exemplifying state language – with something akin to “dynastics”.
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It can be readily argued that this collection of “states” offers no indication of how they are interrelated systemically between the domains so thematically bounded. This systemic connectivity has been the primary preoccupation of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential now accessible online.
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Apr 15
Anthony Judge
Being Neither a-Waving Nor a-Parting
Considering both science and spirituality
Introduction
Being a-Waving
Being a-Parting
Death — a final parting?
Neither a-Waving nor a-Parting
Transcending a-Waving and a-Parting
Correspondence to a-Coming and a-Going?
Conclusion
References
Produced on the occasion of publication by science of an inspiring map of the Universe shortly after the Big Bang
EXTRACT:
Science now offers a greeting, through “a-waving”, from the origins of the Universe — to a global civilization faced with collapse, “a-parting”, through lack of capacity to encompass its own paradoxes consequent on its growth. The paradoxes are those assiduously explored by the best of science and spirituality.
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Mar 26
