What, how, to whom?
I’ve been asking these questions for YEARS. It’s good to see others asking them.
One more urgent question is how do we get the BBC to stop using it so relentlessly and so entirely without thought?
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I’ve been asking these questions for YEARS. It’s good to see others asking them.
One more urgent question is how do we get the BBC to stop using it so relentlessly and so entirely without thought?
William Golding gave an answer to the question “What is a community leader?” with great clarity and economy through the character of Jack in The Lord of the Flies. Unfortunately, too many of us are susceptible to moral suasion to echo Ralph’s emolliant utterance “The choir is yours, of course”; even though we lack the excuse of being naive well brought up thirteen year olds.
For some teenage boys who had the advantages of not being fictional and not being from an English boarding school, and so behaved sensibly when shipwrecked see:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongan_castaways
For some more details see an early chapter in
“Humankind: A Hopeful History” by Rutger Bregman