Learning To See In The Dark
Learning to See in the Dark is a philosophical work unlike most books about civilisational crisis. It doesn't deliver conclusions from a position of achieved understanding. It practises, in real time, the quality of perception it argues for. Richard David Hames - philosopher-futurist, strategic adviser to governments and heads of state across four decades, and president of the Asian Foresight Institute - weaves together two registers throughout: diary entries anchored in specific places and moments, and analytical chapters that move from the immediate to the civilisational and back. The diary entries are not illustrations of the argument. They are the argument in its most palpable form: a gun at a border crossing in 1968, a room in Bangkok in 2004, a ten-year-old asking why people have wars on the morning Russia invaded Ukraine, and nine monks blessing a house in a Thai village while a white thread connects everyone in the room.
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