As far as I can remember, it was in the late 90s when I first heard the term “doing good” mentioned publicly in corporate and advertising boardrooms. Until that time, it was looked upon as noble perhaps, but largely irrelevant to business. Corporations of course had philanthropy divisions, but most were meant to provide a… Read more »
In the 20th century, binary oppositions ruled. Male or female. Domestic or foreign. Rational or emotional. Material or spiritual (based on the Cartesian duality of mind and body). Hetero or homosexual. Republican or Democratic. Analog or digital. And the ultimate binary: Self or Other. This last binary is at the essential basis of all fundamentalism,… Read more »
In college (or “university” as one says in Canada), I had a professor who by all accounts was a certified genius. At the time, in my then chosen field of Comparative Literature, a new theory called “Deconstruction” was sweeping academia, and its global avatar was the great Jacques Derrida. Like the far more layperson-friendly Malcolm… Read more »