by Mark Crosweller | Mar 21, 2019 | The Allegorical Life blog
A letter to the Prime Minister of New Zealand: “Dear Prime Minister, We owe you a great debt of gratitude for the courage and foresight you had to bring an ethical premise to political leadership on the international stage. For thinking, speaking and acting through...
by Mark Crosweller | Nov 19, 2018 | The Allegorical Life blog
Anger everywhere Recently I had the opportunity of having a week off work to gather my thoughts and regain my energy after a gruelling nine months of intense policy work. It gave me more time to read the papers, listen to the news, and observe some of the political...
by Mark Crosweller | Oct 5, 2018 | The Allegorical Life blog
Ideologies in Australian culture I recently had the great privilege of sharing a conversation and a coffee with Hugh Mackay, a prominent social scientist who has been commenting on Australian culture for over 30 years. His latest book, Australia Reimagined, offers...
by Mark Crosweller | Aug 24, 2018 | The Allegorical Life blog
An Ordinary Man Many people would have watched Monty Python’s Life of Brian. An iconic movie portraying an ordinary man who was fundamentally misunderstood by the masses to be the messiah. This blog is dedicated to another man named Brian, who ironically, may well...
by Mark Crosweller | Jul 31, 2018 | The Allegorical Life blog
Disruptor or Dancer? In his best-selling book The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything, Ken Robinson tells the story of a young girl who simply didn’t fit into society in the way that most of us are expected to fit in. In school she couldn’t settle,...
by Mark Crosweller | Jul 10, 2018 | The Allegorical Life blog
Making meaning in the world “Life is not a problem to be solved; but a reality to be experienced.” Soren Kierkegaard Soren Kierkegaard was a Danish philosopher who lived in the nineteenth century and is widely acclaimed to be the first existential philosopher. He was...
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