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Genevieve Liveley
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Sep 23, 2026
Institutional Wilful Blindness: Part 2
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Margaret HeffernanGUEST
That will make people think the next time they have a concern that maybe speaking up is a gift, not a danger.

Genevieve LiveleyGUEST
But from a narratological point of view, that's really cool because you've taken, frankly, quite a boring plot, right? You know, something happens, someone spots it, you know, disaster averted.

Genevieve LiveleyGUEST
But you've turned that into a plucky underdog story with success and cost saving.

Genevieve LiveleyGUEST
And you've also highlighted how difficult it is to tell stories that aren't the disaster movie equivalents of this company went down in flames because of this silly thing one person does.
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Institutional Wilful Blindness
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13:44DarraghHOST
Genevieve, what does framing cybersecurity in that way do to people, how inside organisations, how they think, how they behave? Does it have an influence? Does it have a bearing on their decision-making process?

Genevieve LiveleyGUEST
Lots of research into metaphors shaping the way we think about new phenomena or the way we think about risk, think about the future.

Genevieve LiveleyGUEST
And metaphors, in a sense, circumscribe what it's possible to think about an artefact, an event, particularly something as amorphous as a kind of future risk.

Genevieve LiveleyGUEST
And That means if we're thinking about cybersecurity solely in military terms, using those metaphors, and as I say, it's really hard not to.

Genevieve LiveleyGUEST
Just the word security, you know, that immediately kind of brings into all those words and tropes that you suggested.

Genevieve LiveleyGUEST
But it does suggest that someone's going to come to the rescue, that someone is, you socioculturally we have you know inhabited a space where someone will protect us from the big bad and it does then lead to a sense of someone's gonna get you know the cavalry are gonna protect us And I think we could do more with that metaphor.
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Margaret HeffernanGUEST
But, you know, the person who knows much more about this than I do is Genevieve and, you know, the power of storytelling.