I'm a technologist and capitalist at heart. I believe that progress and advancement of the human race goes hand in hand with both scientific & industrial advancement and reward for ones efforts. But… I grow more weary every day of the people I see in the news, of technology that adds no real value to society and of the feeling that there's more than meets the eye when we consider the facade of the political, religious and industrial mechanisms that surround our every day lives. No names needed here, if you think of the news and now attempt to bring forth the cast of the Movie of 2022 we will no doubt name most of the same leading actors.
It seems to be we need a wide angle lens to capture what is going on at the edge of the movie set. To look further down the cast list. To appreciate the many people scrolling by in the credits while we all walk from the cinema.
This topic seems wide of the mark for a publication that likes to write about risk, technology, finance, regulation and science. But it's not, all of those things exist within the same paradigm as politics, power and money. Indeed, they are controlled by politics, power and money. So let's perhaps go next door, leave the cinema, abandon the movie stars and pop into the theatre and appreciate an alternative viewpoint, step into the bookshop and pick up something by someone we've never heard of, or sit in the park on bench and talk to someone who has lived a different life.
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