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Ronan is a leading voice in transformational change, supporting leaders to transform themselves and their organisations to become the success stories of our complex new world. Ronan is also a leading figure within the Burning Man community, giving the keynote on new politics at their Global Leadership Summit in 2017. He writes and speaks widely about the prospect of a more visionary politics, gues...

A audio essay on the recent debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavov Zizek, based 3 medium essays I wrote about these two men 

Why does Jordan Peterson create such strong and polarised reactions? Andrew Sweeny has written many articles examining Peterson's impact on the culture. In this Skype chat with David Fuller, director of two documentaries about Jordan Peterson, he explains how the reaction to Peterson is largely due to the way that Peterson is reviving a perspective that many thought had been banished forever. It a...

Source Article here:  https://medium.com/@andrewpgsweeny/jordan-peterson-sex-and-the-patriarchy-a39ad3902946 Rebel Wisdom Articles by Andrew Sweeny: https://medium.com/rebel-wisdom

“Peterson is problematic to practically everybody, which is interesting.  He is problematic to traditionalists, because he doesn’t go to church.  He’s problematic to modernists because he is interested in religion.  He is problematic to post-modernism because he values hierarchy.  He’s problematic to the extreme right and the extreme left because he is so reasonable.“ “Trump to...

This is the 3rd in a series of talks with  Stephen Lewis.  In this conversation we dare critique certain aspects of feminism.  On a broader level, we discuss how men and women can be sovereign in the face of redundancy in the meaning crisis.    Stephen Lewis is owns an organic bakery in Newfoundland, Canada, and is a singer-songwriter, and real philosopher—he is also a bit...

This is the second in a series of talks with Stephen Lewis. I have included his song 'Nothing has been lost' in the intro (the entire can be heard here.     https://slewis1.bandcamp.com/album/anthems-for-a-failed-state Stephen Lewis is owns an organic bakery in Newfoundland, Canada, and is a singer-songwriter, and real philosopher—he is also a bit of a mystic by my estimation. He ha...

Stephen Lewis is owns an organic bakery in Newfoundland, Canada, and is a singer-songwriter, and real philosopher.  And by philosopher I mean someone who actually thinks in a deep and revelatory way—he is also a bit of a mystic by my estimation. He has all kinds of theories about art, economics, sex and society,  which you will find are completely unique.  I've been talking to him s...

Darin Stevenson is my facebook friend, other than that I don’t know a lot about him.  He doesn’t share personal information online, but rather his writing and ideas. He is always fascinating, radically intelligent, and provocative - perhaps is one of the best social critics and comedians I know - and also a great guitarist.   He writes about nature and machines, representations and...

Some poems from 2016

After Cohen died last year, I spent about a month listening to and writing about his music.  This turned into a short book, which I have now made into a video podcast.  This is part 1 of a 3 part series.  For those who prefer to read you can find the text on my medium blog here: https://medium.com/@andrewpgsweeny/my-landlord-c16a096ee2e9