PHILOSOPHICAL REFLECTIONS ON OUR TIMES: WEEK STARTING MARCH 7, 2021 (1)

As part of his ongoing weekly Sunday fasting talks, Dr Daffern shares some thoughts regarding the times we are passing through, momentous, strange and unprecedented. How did we get here? Why ? The news that extreme Protestants (so called) in Ulster have ended their adherence to the Good Friday agreement is a tragedy we have been expecting, from the perspective of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission for Britain and Ireland. Without truth reconciliation falls apart, as we are seeing. He then talks about Surveillance capitalism and what this situation means for intellectuals. He discusses how lies first got into our international political system and points to 9/11 as a critical moment when truth was downgraded. He then speaks about religious literacy and numeracy and his book on Religious Mathematics and the ethical challenge posed to civilisation revealed in the false narratives of the Trump & Conservative era. So what antidote is needed ? What is possible? How can we end the political lies pandemic as