Gosh! I know I was one of the people who felt like one chapter wasn’t enough, but three was challenging, especially without your wonderful notes! There was so much to get through! I’m very puzzled by Moliwda, he’s quite an enigma to me. One minute I was thinking he was a spy, the next he’s very drunk in Jacob’s bed asking if he can have Hana. I can’t work out what his motivations are. Can you enlighten me? Or will things become clearer in future chapters?
Things will become clearer, and more clearly tragic. Moliwda is one of those enigmas wrapped inside a secret. My notes will be back next week covering these chapters, I promise. I was a bit over-loaded last week.
I’m going to try to keep up but I’m quite sad we’re upping the pace so much. I don’t think 100 pages a week really counts as a “slow read” anymore! I feel like I’ve gone from enjoyably taking in the scenery of the book to a boot camp to get through the reading. I know/hope the notes will still be there if I can’t keep pace but it does lose something when we’re not making our way through it together. Anyway, I’ll give it a go!
I am sorry if the pace is too fast. I was balancing a few things including my own workload. I hope you hang in there, and I will think of any ways I can keep that ‘slow read’ experience going. 🙏❤️
Gareth Evans interview is a treat! Thank you Jeff! G’s 4 elements of foreign policy resonate: 1. Less America. 2. More Self-sustaining sovereignty. (My wording) 3. More Asia (especially given Australia’s neighbourhood). 4. More decent International Citizenship. And yes, I am interested in the book you introduced, The Once and Future World Order, by A. Acharya.
I will do a mini review of the Acharya book on my YT channel soon.
In the meantime, you can watch his discuss the book in this video from the Asia Society. It is quite engaging and some of the audience questions are also revealing. https://youtu.be/jCzzpdvbJKU?si=PzR1dVhzxQKu4Kjy
Thank you. Looking forward to your YT mini review. On a different topic - I read your introduction to your book of poetry. Your struggle and courage, your inner processes towards stepping into your public and published self - thank you for sharing, for being a role model and inspiration, Jeff. I knew I would learn so much about publishing and finding creative formats from your newsletter.And!! The special, surprise, gift for me is your policy creation role - the inside view. I have been searching to find out who contributes to policy thinking, since 2021. I was looking for you, without knowing you existed.
Thanks Carrie. That is really touching. You should check my book Thirteen Ways of looking at a bureaucrat. What prompted your search for policy thinking?
I certainly will be checking out your 13 Ways! Policy thinking -My undergraduate degree is in Philosophy. I also studied Law. Ethics and epistemology thread through most of my interests. Once I retired from my high school teacher-librarian position I set out to update my global citizen education. And share it in a newsletter on Substack. I started with Journalism, economics, technology, how are these serving people? Who are the activists proposing policy and how are they educating the public? Policy thinking is a practical pursuit that sculpts the world. I admire the work being done at GIFT.Ed Global Institute For Tomorrow.
Why shouldn’t we educate/support citizens so they can participate in citizen assemblies or other forms of participatory democracy? The work of Audrey Tang beckons. Short answer- every citizen needs to learn about the policy thinking process and perhaps practice policy thinking. Hopefully this awareness would protect them from mind-hijacking memes and political slogans repeated like lyrics from a concert trance.
Gosh! I know I was one of the people who felt like one chapter wasn’t enough, but three was challenging, especially without your wonderful notes! There was so much to get through! I’m very puzzled by Moliwda, he’s quite an enigma to me. One minute I was thinking he was a spy, the next he’s very drunk in Jacob’s bed asking if he can have Hana. I can’t work out what his motivations are. Can you enlighten me? Or will things become clearer in future chapters?
Things will become clearer, and more clearly tragic. Moliwda is one of those enigmas wrapped inside a secret. My notes will be back next week covering these chapters, I promise. I was a bit over-loaded last week.
Thank you!
I’m going to try to keep up but I’m quite sad we’re upping the pace so much. I don’t think 100 pages a week really counts as a “slow read” anymore! I feel like I’ve gone from enjoyably taking in the scenery of the book to a boot camp to get through the reading. I know/hope the notes will still be there if I can’t keep pace but it does lose something when we’re not making our way through it together. Anyway, I’ll give it a go!
I’ll do my best, thanks Jeff
I am sorry if the pace is too fast. I was balancing a few things including my own workload. I hope you hang in there, and I will think of any ways I can keep that ‘slow read’ experience going. 🙏❤️
Gareth Evans interview is a treat! Thank you Jeff! G’s 4 elements of foreign policy resonate: 1. Less America. 2. More Self-sustaining sovereignty. (My wording) 3. More Asia (especially given Australia’s neighbourhood). 4. More decent International Citizenship. And yes, I am interested in the book you introduced, The Once and Future World Order, by A. Acharya.
Thanks. It was quite a highlight for me.
I will do a mini review of the Acharya book on my YT channel soon.
In the meantime, you can watch his discuss the book in this video from the Asia Society. It is quite engaging and some of the audience questions are also revealing. https://youtu.be/jCzzpdvbJKU?si=PzR1dVhzxQKu4Kjy
Thank you. Looking forward to your YT mini review. On a different topic - I read your introduction to your book of poetry. Your struggle and courage, your inner processes towards stepping into your public and published self - thank you for sharing, for being a role model and inspiration, Jeff. I knew I would learn so much about publishing and finding creative formats from your newsletter.And!! The special, surprise, gift for me is your policy creation role - the inside view. I have been searching to find out who contributes to policy thinking, since 2021. I was looking for you, without knowing you existed.
Thanks Carrie. That is really touching. You should check my book Thirteen Ways of looking at a bureaucrat. What prompted your search for policy thinking?
I certainly will be checking out your 13 Ways! Policy thinking -My undergraduate degree is in Philosophy. I also studied Law. Ethics and epistemology thread through most of my interests. Once I retired from my high school teacher-librarian position I set out to update my global citizen education. And share it in a newsletter on Substack. I started with Journalism, economics, technology, how are these serving people? Who are the activists proposing policy and how are they educating the public? Policy thinking is a practical pursuit that sculpts the world. I admire the work being done at GIFT.Ed Global Institute For Tomorrow.
Why shouldn’t we educate/support citizens so they can participate in citizen assemblies or other forms of participatory democracy? The work of Audrey Tang beckons. Short answer- every citizen needs to learn about the policy thinking process and perhaps practice policy thinking. Hopefully this awareness would protect them from mind-hijacking memes and political slogans repeated like lyrics from a concert trance.