CHAPTER 2

Why Now? Why Temperatism?

This is the question I want everyone to ask yourself every single day when you come with something you feel that needs to be done: if not now, then when? And if not me, then who?

—Mick Ebeling

Historically, it seems that in many cases the -ism’s and -ology’s occurred first as a conversation in coffee shops, before eventually becoming formalized in the written word to be debated and discussed by a wider audience. But previous ideologies were restricted to the philosophers, the academics, and those who were classed as the thinkers of the day. Today, the forum for debate is wider, the opportunity to contribute to thinking no longer restricted to the “thinking classes” but to anyone who can think. Temperatism might ...

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