Have been trying to read a book by John Ralston Saul for some time now called “Voltaire’s Bastards: the dictatorship of reason in the West.” Have only gotten 100 pages in – I’ve managed to lose the book twice, and had to track it down again – but already it’s outlining what it says on the tin: that we’re (Western Civilisation, that is) so obsessed with logic, statistics, the bottom line and so on, that the original cause behind any course of action is usually completely forgotten. Many ladders against many wrong walls, in other words.
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The Dictatorship of Reason and the Decline of Values
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
The virtual careers network
Monday, October 3rd, 2005
Having recently arrived back in Sydneytown, I’m hitting the job sites (the ubiquitous SEEK, and MyCareer) and a variety of agencies to deploy my numerous skills to work, and hopefully, earn a half decent pay packet in the meantime. Even compared with 5 years ago, it’s a different ball game. It’s fair to say that the application process is now fully “real-time”, with paper applications (and even the quaint practice of scouring the Saturday papers) put in the Windows Recycle bin, replaced by … (more…)