http://www.isnare.com/?s=author&a=Marcus+Bussey Society Marcus Bussey Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=334496&ca=Society Perhaps we are seeing a transition in the kind of heroic behaviour required to make life meaningful? This thought comes to me as I reread Ashis Nandy’s introduction to his Tao of Cricket where he ends with the reflection that today “heroes are expected to redeem the killing banality and boredom of e... Society Marcus Bussey Sat, 25 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=36734&ca=Society Seeing an orbital image of planet Earth at night you immediately become aware of two things. Firstly, how much energy is used to maintain the human experiment; secondly, how inequitably it is distributed around the globe. As James Lovelock recently observed, “civilisation is energy-intensive” yet th... Society Marcus Bussey Sat, 18 Feb 2006 00:00:00 +0800 http://www.isnare.com/?aid=35366&ca=Society Totalitarianism has been tried many times and it essentially fails because human beings will in all ways subvert a singular narrative that is imposed by force. The fates of the totalitarian states of the last century illustrate this. Authority, the power to dominate the minds and bodies of humanity,...