Sublime

the mental inertia that John Stuart Mill called the ‘deep slumber of a decided opinion’.

The result of all these trends is an odd distortion in our perception of what governments can and should do, and a stunted imagination in relation to what it could be.

Obviously Reich’s influence went way beyond just me. Alongside other authors such as Anthony Giddens[411] and Jeremy Rifkin[412], he was instrumental in crafting the message of a new generation of progressive leaders that the era of the steady, lifelong job was over. In a more global and unstable world, lifelong education was the new key to providi

Exploratory economics would combine the insights of the discipline with the use of creative tools to design possible ways of organising firms, sectors, trading and investment in the future. Exploratory sociology would look at new ways of organising care, friendship or families. Exploratory urban geography might look at how we could organise cities,