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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.

On Humankind

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According to Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, which spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical - and sometimes devastating - breakthroughs of the cognitive, agricultural and scientific revolutions:

  • While the 20C was about healing the sick; 21C may be about upgrading the healthy.
  • The Agricultural Revolution didn't benefit everyone; e.g. poor women tilling in fields in Ancient Egypt [and perhaps still today?] were much worse off in terms of diet, health than their hunter gatherer ancestors.
  • We could create a new abundance - allowing everyone to have everything they wish - if that's the story, the meta-narrative that we collectively choose.
  • However, as subjective creatures, we have conflicting stories, but nevertheless the most successful stories can spread globally (e.g. those about religion, or the notion that human rights are natural rather than a created idea).
  • Still, 150 (i.e. Dunbar's number) seems to be the maximum size of homogenous human groupings, so getting consistent narratives out beyond this number will always be challenging.

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