Marrying Strategic White Holes with Problematic Black Holes
Questionable role of officiants in the engagement process and nuptial arrangements
Produced in celebration of the encounter of 28 April 2015 between Ban Ki-moon (Secretary-General of the United Nations) and Pope Francis (of the Catholic Church) to discuss climate change and Mediterranean migration.
Introduction
Doom-mongering and hope-mongering
Cognitive mystery of holes
Emotional blackmail by officiants
Systematic misrepresentation by officiants
Consummation: officiant participation in the end game
Imaginatique: new thinking and creative imagination?
Ludique: game-playing and fun, funding
Mediating imaginative game-playing
Funding a fun-dead marriage between problematique and resolutique?
Dynamics between hypothetical and metaphysical holes
Systemic neglect in unimaginative appeals
Empowering enlightenment through sexy technomimicry?
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