Author Archives: Harry van der Velde

How do values and needs relate?

image credit: https://irfankhawajaphilosopher.files.wordpress.com There is a lot of talk around values in the GCC. Values – as the word suggests – are important. So what are values? It turns out the scholar Shalom Schwartz* has researched this extensively and the image above illustrates his findings. (more ) So there seem to be sets of values that areContinue reading “How do values and needs relate?”

Patterns of life

Today’s society demonstrates the destructive combination of absolute private property rights and limitless resources exploitation (including ‘human resources’!). We seem to be heading towards self destruction. Many of the ‘woke’ human population try to figure out solutions for the mess we got our species into. Never before has a species voluntarily been able to constraintContinue reading “Patterns of life”