http://speechification.com/2008/04/19/mike-leigh-and-professor-richard-layard-on-today/ Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:54:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://speechification.com/2008/04/19/mike-leigh-and-professor-richard-layard-on-today/#comment-1652 Steve Bowbrick Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:55:20 +0000 http://speechification.com/?p=235#comment-1652 I think you're asking a lot of a fuzzy old humanist like Leigh to take on board all that hard-edged materialism, man! And what's this about lived experience? If he's anything he's a student of lived experience. Although I think you've got a different definition of lived experience than I do... I think you’re asking a lot of a fuzzy old humanist like Leigh to take on board all that hard-edged materialism, man! And what’s this about lived experience? If he’s anything he’s a student of lived experience. Although I think you’ve got a different definition of lived experience than I do…

]]> http://speechification.com/2008/04/19/mike-leigh-and-professor-richard-layard-on-today/#comment-1645 Nico Macdonald Tue, 22 Apr 2008 10:18:00 +0000 http://speechification.com/?p=235#comment-1645 Credit to Mike Leigh for seeing the positive aspects of human responses to adversity. But he still adheres to the 'we are destroying the planet' matra that firstly denies lived experience and secondly substitutes human futures with the meaningless abstraction that is ' the future of the planet'. Credit to Mike Leigh for seeing the positive aspects of human responses to adversity. But he still adheres to the ‘we are destroying the planet’ matra that firstly denies lived experience and secondly substitutes human futures with the meaningless abstraction that is ‘ the future of the planet’.

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