Hugh Mackay is an eloquent Australian social researcher who will be presenting on Oct 1st in Melbourne. I’ve also just purchased his book, Advance Australia—Where? He’s sophisticated, down to earth and definitely tuned into Australian culture and a well informed futurist.
Other futurists out there might be interested in a presentation by High Mackay coming up. Its title is “‘Relaxed and comfortable’ or diminished and disengaged?” – quite timely with the federal election around the corner and after the recent release of his latest book.
You will need to RSVP – it is being put on by the University of Melbourne’s Centre for Public Policy.
http://www.public-policy.unimelb.edu.au/events/hamer_oration.html
If you’re *really* interested then go out & get the DVD for the HBO series “Big Love” (screened on SBS in Oz):
http://www.hbo.com/biglove/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Love
You can also look at Mormonism via a Darwinian/evolutionary psychology lens as a belief system that means more procreation/ families, which means more believers, cf. Erik Davis’s 21C Magazine piece “Database of the Dead” on why Mormons are very influential in the US genealogy circles:
http://www.techgnosis.com/chunkshow-single.php?chunk=chunkfrom-2005-06-05-1839-0.txt
If you are spooked by flying like me, but find the whole disaster thing fascinating but terrifying at the same time, you might wanna check out this Slate article about airplane crashes you don;t hear of!
http://www.slate.com/id/2173735/nav/tap3/
Australian Premiere of the film Air Guitar Nation airs in Melbourne on Thursday 27th September. Check out listings in the ether!! Rock on…
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