Why Edges Very Much Matter. Charles Foster at Realisation 2026
Published: May 4, 2026
Duration: 12:23
Why does politics feel increasingly frantic, economics increasingly deluded, culture increasingly empty - even when led by seemingly good people?
Charles Foster explores how, at root, modern ways of life uncouple us from the heart of what makes us human: a love of horizons and edges. With that perspective lost, power is mostly about control, not allure, and society organises around safety rather than spirit.
What does this mean for notions like nation states and sciences of prediction? Drawing particularly on the work of Iain McGilchrist, Charles asks again about the meaning of life, individual an...