Join me in the alt-centre: UPDATE

A subscriber alerted me to the fact that my links to my 'alt-centre' piece was broken in my last mailout. So I'm recirculating that part of the newsletter with the link fixed.

cheers,
 
Nicholas  

Will you join me in the alt-centre? 

From Club Troppo

It’s a funny thing with names. Names given in jest and contempt are adopted by their targets. After over a decade of marketing consulting services as “Lateral Economics”, I decided it wasn’t so much a brand as a method and have given some talks to that effect. 

Anyway a new recruit to my Twitter feed DMed me saying "I’m very much looking forward to learning about the alt-centre. Your pinned tweet has captivated me". So my first very quick explanation of what my 'alt-centrism' was was this: 

Yes, well the term “alt-centre" was a light-hearted kind of line, but, like many such things, having put it up there, I think it might be about something real.
An earlier iteration of my centrism is here.*

But that was then. Now I’d say, how about a fusion of Alasdair MacIntyre, James Burnham and George Orwell together with the idea that outputs from modern academia are mostly useless?

The rest of the post tries to do a little better — at least regarding James Burnham’s significance.