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Tell The Truth - The Capital System is the Problem
Extinction Rebellion must decide if it is anti-capitalist – and this greenwashing mining company shows us why by Amardeep Dhillon...
Peter Critchley
Oct 24, 20196 min read
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The Dangers of Corporate Climate Diversion, Conversion, and Perversion
Upon completing a number of articles on this theme, I discovered this commentary by Brian Davey, published on the Feasta website, Greta...
Peter Critchley
Oct 21, 201914 min read
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The Love that Seeketh Not its Own
The Love that Seeketh Not its Own What my eyes saw was nothing mortal When in your beautiful eyes entire peace I found . . . I say that...
Peter Critchley
Oct 21, 201950 min read
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Time for a Transformation
Time for a Transformation On 16 September 2019, The Financial Times launched a campaign for a better form of capitalism with its powerful...
Peter Critchley
Oct 17, 201937 min read
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Bodying Forth Truth with a Transcendent Purpose
Bodying Forth Truth with a Transcendent Purpose Truth is embodied in and articulated through relationships with a transcendent purpose. I...
Peter Critchley
Oct 17, 201915 min read
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God and Nature Exist in Relationships
God and Nature Exist in Relationships ‘Nature does not exist!’ says philosopher Slavoj Žižek, which seems a statement so daft that only a...
Peter Critchley
Oct 10, 20199 min read
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Re-politicizing the Environment
Re-politicising the Environment Environmentalism in its mainstream form demonstrates a strong scientistic and technocratic bent, with...
Peter Critchley
Oct 5, 201911 min read
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The Price of Political Deficiency
Anonymous Message to Greta Thunberg And so the penny slowly drops, so slowly as to be too late, the masses have been mobilized by their...
Peter Critchley
Oct 4, 201913 min read
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Fire and Ice
Fire and Ice Fire and Ice: where would Dante place all of us who are borrowing against this Earth…? Fire and Ice by Robert Frost Some say...
Peter Critchley
Sep 30, 201929 min read
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Dangers and Wrong Paths
Dangers and Wrong Paths “What a variety of dangers surrounds us! What a number of wrong paths present themselves in the investigation of...
Peter Critchley
Sep 30, 201938 min read
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Restoring the Moral Compass
Restoring the Moral Compass Social and Moral Restoration and The Need for an Authoritative Moral Framework “The test of the morality of a...
Peter Critchley
Sep 28, 201917 min read
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Turning Green Gloom into Green Growth
From Green Gloom to Green Growth It is curious that people who well know recent history concerning the corporate capture of the public...
Peter Critchley
Sep 28, 201977 min read
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Extinction Pacification
Pacification : Putting Politics on Ice as the Earth Heats Up This was an argument put forward by a spokesperson for Extinction Rebellion:...
Peter Critchley
Sep 26, 201947 min read
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Aristotle's Flourishing
Here is a thoughtful article with an unhelpful title. Aristotle gets his revenge over ‘science-based’ culture If I was to post this...
Peter Critchley
Sep 25, 20193 min read
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Seeing through the encroachment of the Environmental Megamachine
When Saving the Planet is merely Saving the Capital System Or, When system-change is appropriated and perverted to serve the end of...
Peter Critchley
Sep 23, 2019140 min read
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Maritain Not Martian
Maritain Not Martian I’m reading this article, Maritain the Martian by Randall Smith. Jacques Maritain was one of the most prolific and...
Peter Critchley
Sep 19, 201910 min read
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Science and questions of value, significance, and meaning
Science and questions of value, significance, and meaning Curtis White notes the excitement when Stephen Hawking seemed to deny the...
Peter Critchley
Sep 19, 20195 min read
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When all else has fallen, Love still stands
When all else has fallen, Love still stands “Dull minds are never either intuitive or mathematical.” (Pascal). I think I must hold the...
Peter Critchley
Sep 18, 201930 min read
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Insidious Ideology
I agree with much of George Monbiot’s critique of neoliberalism here. The insidious ideology pushing us towards a Brexit cliff-edge I...
Peter Critchley
Sep 14, 20197 min read
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In Praise of My Good Self
In Praise of My Good Self I have worked alone, outside of Academia and with no financial support, for a quarter of a century now. I don’t...
Peter Critchley
Sep 12, 201946 min read
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