Scenarios | Richard David Hames

Pax Americana

March 2, 2017No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Leadership, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

Departure today is from Gate 18 in Terminal 2 at Tullamarine Airport. I am just about to embark upon a 14 hour flight to the United States. This will be my first visit in five years. I have always tried...

Architectures of Suppression

February 6, 2017No CommentsFutures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, Wisdom

The state was a European invention. Initially nothing more than a convenient juridical phenomenon, it supplanted various multi-ethnic empires that stretched across much of the world and destabilised the doctrine of the divine right of monarchs to rule by arguing...

Blind Alleys & Alternative Tracks

January 25, 2017No CommentsCommunication, Futures, Ideas & Memes, Leadership, Philanthropy, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, Wisdom

THE HUMAN CONDITION What do you suppose uniquely characterises our species over all others? Our intelligence? Wisdom? Compassion? Our capacity to converse, invent, or to bring order where none previously existed? None of these? Looked at another way perhaps it...

More Misleading Mischief

January 23, 2017No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Knowledge & Intelligence, Leadership, Learning, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, Strategic Innovation, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

Where are today’s political leaders? Why are the current batch of leaders failing to lead? When will we get the kind of moral leadership we need? These are three of the most commonly posed questions about those in government who...

Five Departures in Search of a Destination

January 3, 2017No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Game Theory, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Knowledge & Intelligence, Leadership, Learning, Politics & Economics, Religion, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, Strategic Innovation, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

The label philosopher-activist, routinely used to help classify what I and others like me actually do for a living, connotes a bias for transforming pure thought – explicitly matters related to existence, reason and knowledge - into informed and, one...

Power Shifts

December 27, 2016No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Knowledge & Intelligence, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Science, Society, State of the World, Sustainability & Ecology, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear - Antonio Gramsci Scary Stuff Recent events can seem scary, vapid, or...

Hail Caesar!

December 5, 2016No CommentsCurrent Affairs, Futures, Governance, Ideas & Memes, Leadership, Learning, Politics & Economics, Scenarios, Society, State of the World, The Five Literacies of Global Leadership, Wisdom

This is the third essay in a series critiquing one of society’s most venerated idees fixes – one that not only makes possible the preservation of an explicitly bankrupt notion of leading as a dualistic concept, most obviously exemplified in...

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Pax Americana

Architectures of Suppression

Blind Alleys & Alternative Tracks

More Misleading Mischief

Five Departures in Search of a Destination

Power Shifts

Hail Caesar!

RICHARD DAVID HAMES