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Peter Pink-Howitt
I could find no other way to deal with the long process of dehumanisation and destruction that we see taking place in Gaza and the West Bank and the costs to the victims as well as to many of the people (including friends) that support it. Every ethical action has an equal and opposite reaction. The dehumaniser loses their humanity every bit as much as the dehumanised, they may just not realise it because they think their action is justified or they are the 'victor'.
Peter Pink-Howitt
Yes, if you wish: https://books.google.com.gi/books?id=...
Peter Pink-Howitt
To sing the world into existence
or otherwise drown
in the clamour of another's song
or otherwise drown
in the clamour of another's song
Peter Pink-Howitt
Middle Earth: I would ask Galadriel for a lock of her hair and have a pipe and a beer in the Green Dragon with Bilbo and with Gandalf, Sam, Frodo and Aragorn (actually let's make it the whole fellowship)
Hyperion: dinner with Aenea, Martin Silenus, John Keats, A. Bettik and Sad King Billy
Hyperion: dinner with Aenea, Martin Silenus, John Keats, A. Bettik and Sad King Billy
Peter Pink-Howitt
Wait. Do something else. Let your brain work on it without you watching too closely. For Ethics of Life I was most concerned (from a philosophical perspective) about the chapter on free will as it is a notoriously difficult subject. So I wrote other chapters and waited. One day talking to some pals, I told them I had to rush home because I felt the chapter was ready to start writing itself and it did (almost in one continuous stream) - my work started after in the editing and refining of that first stream of words (psychography).
Peter Pink-Howitt
You get to create a whitespace to sit with complex ideas and work out what you think they mean and what you think about them after clarifying what is being considered. You get to play with words. You have the chance to research amazing writers, thinkers and other artists.
Peter Pink-Howitt
I am one too. Start writing and keep going even after the initial excitement wears off and you are left with the 95% grind that follows the 5% inspiration. TBH, the rewriting and re-checking process feels interminable and soul destroying at times...so get help with that from a great copy editor. Most importantly remember T. S. Eliot's guidance (thanks to my pal Ben): ‘the progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of
personality’.
The post inspiration grinding process is necessary and where you are aiming to remove many of your own subconscious or too personal traces....By the end you should almost not want to see the work ever again.
personality’.
The post inspiration grinding process is necessary and where you are aiming to remove many of your own subconscious or too personal traces....By the end you should almost not want to see the work ever again.
Peter Pink-Howitt
Some poems and the outline for a sci-fi series for young adults that deals with the big issues in Ethics of Life in a different (hopefully more readable) way for a wider audience.
Peter Pink-Howitt
I just started based on a passion to say something about the issue of biodiversity and our undervaluing of all other life-forms.
Peter Pink-Howitt
From reading and trying to write a response to a speculative and interesting philosophical paper about the ethical issues involved in future AI – human interactions written by Nick Bostrom and Carl Shulman: https://nickbostrom.com/papers/digita...
I was frustrated that we already have similar conditions applying between humans and all other life-forms on Earth and we still do not have a suitable ethical approach to biodiversity. In attempting to write a short response to their paper I realised I knew very little about most of what I thought I wanted to say and the terms I used were largely regurgitated thoughts of others that I had not sat with and considered properly.
I was frustrated that we already have similar conditions applying between humans and all other life-forms on Earth and we still do not have a suitable ethical approach to biodiversity. In attempting to write a short response to their paper I realised I knew very little about most of what I thought I wanted to say and the terms I used were largely regurgitated thoughts of others that I had not sat with and considered properly.
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