Wow.
An impressive lecture last night.
I was stunned by the depth of his insight and how he touched on such a wide range of topics and brought them all together.
Does he pose a significant alternative to the leadership of the country?
Looking forward to reading what the papers have to say.
I hope that they don't just pick on climate change - there was far more in the lecture than that. For me he dealt with a great variety of topics concerning our environment: In particular the loss of our communities.
What will the papers and television think of his views. Will politicians follow his leadership and listen?
What will the general public make of it?
I'll certainly be reading his speech again and hope that others also find his views important.
Well worth the 50 minutes time to watch this program on iPlayer.
The full text is available here.
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I watched the speech twice, once on television and once again with iPlayer.
I was very impressed particularly because I hadn't expected such a panoramic and wise view of our problems.
Using Google to scan the reaction, I was surprised to find very superficial reporting.
Without the press picking it up, it looks like the content could get ignored, even though it was "ignore at your peril".
I, like the Prince, end up with deep concerns, sometimes waking up in the night wondering where we're heading and what to do with the small part that I can play.
Well done Charles, I had never anticipated such wisdom coming from him. On reflection this is what he can be good at. He's in a position to discuss problems with world leaders and thinkers, then take time to digest and formulate action. Lastly he can then set up some means that this can be pursued.
I'm looking forward to picking up more from those that share his views about the need for communities. This in my view is where the future lies - building up strong active groups of people that thrash practical ideas out and put them into action.
Plenty of impressive people in the audience - I think we'll be hearing more from them as they incorporate the views expressed into their own thinking even if the press and public pass this one by.
Scanning the papers, again, with Google to pick up on the reporting of this speech shows how superficial the media world is.
No wonder the public aren't encouraged to think more deeply about the most important issues that face us.
Instead pages and pages are given to what are really trivial issues by comparison.
Clearly, to me, our public are not being encouraged to think clearly.
Far worse is the mentality of the reporters that interpret our world to us.
Great philosophers, one feels, would be totally ignored these days. Charles does a good job on this front - When will the next philosopher get listened to?
Would we be better served as people if we had no democracy and instead were ruled a monarchy?
With a wise king like Charles would we not be better off with dealing with our major problems.
Time for the Queen to step in and override Parliament maybe?
Something drastic needs to happen and happen now!
Or do we need to learn to accept the inevitable and make the best of of a very depressing future.
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I'll check out Prince Charles' speech. I like the guy, he goes where others fear to tread sometimes - he just has an unfortunate accent and a bunch of irritating nervous tics.
I failed to notice this.
I was a bit gobsmacked.
I hadn't expected such a depth of wise thinking to be pouring out of a person that I'd written off with some unworthy stereotype of 'Royalty'which his mother perpetuates in my thinking.
I stopped in my tracks and listened with the kind intensity I had last given to Bronowski's "Ascent of Man" and Kenneth Clark's "Civilisation".
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