Reflections 15th February

Going Round in Circles, Finding First Principles.

Going Round in Circles?

There are places precious to us, woven into childhood memory. Their contours, their smells, their textures become part of who we are, and returning decades later to find them transformed into executive estates and industrial parks is a shock, indistinguishable from every other development, with personalities reduced to postcodes. Our ancestors must have felt something similar when enclosure acts turned common land into private property. We become strangers in what once felt familiar.

Now the same thing is happening to our skills and knowledge.

Capabilities we thought were ours, protected by qualifications and professional memberships, are being taken and offered for monthly subscription to anyone willing to pay. This is the price of an education that prioritises answering questions without spending time creating them. Graded responses to approved questions, recognised by certificate. Commodities designed for an industrial economy that no longer exists in the form …