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The 52:52:52 project, launching both on this site and on social media in early 2024 will help you address 52 issues with 52 responses over 52 weeks.

A Mundane Comedy is Dominic Kelleher's new book, which will be published in mid 2024. The introduction is available here and further extracts will appear on this site and on social media in the coming months.

This site addresses what's changing, in our own lives, in our organisations, and in wider society. You'll learn about key changes across more than 150 areas, ranging from ageing and time, through nature and animals, to kindness and love...and very much else inbetween.

Halcyon's aim is to help you reflect on how you can better deal with related change in your own life.

Culture

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The distinctions between cultures are not decorative ?it's not feathers and bells or dancers or songs. Those are the symbols of culture. The essence of culture is a blanket of moral and ethical values that we place around the individual. It's culture that allows us to make sense out of sensation, to find order in a universe that may have none - Wade Davis

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The differences among diverse languages and cultures are fascinating, but they help maintain walls between peoples...I'm saddened by the loss of some of the smaller national minority communities, but no more or less than I'm saddened by the changes that happen to anything that lives, grows and dies - Darrin Maxwell, Ath, letter to Time 26/09/05

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Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want. The most terrifying thing is what people do want - Clive Alexander Barnes (b. 1927), British journalist, critic, author

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Technology addresses neither the incentives, nor the attitudes that promote a "knowledge organisation". Success lies in creating the culture for sharing, and then enabling with technology - Dave Snowden

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Ego is a structure that is erected by a neurotic individual who is a member of a neurotic culture against the facts of the matter. And culture, which we put on like an overcoat, is the collectivised consensus about what sort of neurotic behaviors are acceptable - Terence McKenna