Existential
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Watching
The panopticon was a theorised building that Jeremy Bentham came up with, its purpose was to watch without being watched. He imagined a structure designed so that any person within it could be observed at all times, that all persons would realise that this was so and therefore assume that they were always being watched, Continue reading
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Am I mine?
It’s easy to act within accepted moral expectations when your circumstances are comfortable, but this breaks down easily when those circumstances change. Imagine a circle, where we start at any point and work our way around until we arrive back where we started. Let’s say we begin at the point where we ask “what would Continue reading
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Inventing our own stupidity
I watch a lot of YouTube videos, not the ones with cats though, the ones where ideas are posted and discussed. I, like everyone else, form my ideas and thoughts as a mash-up of other people’s thoughts and output, that which I find compelling, not pleasing, compelling in an intellectual sense, then I perform a Continue reading
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A distinct lack of options
We visit a lot of historical sites, it’s our thing to be curious about why things have turned out as they are, and history provides a great perspective in understanding ideology and structure. I’ve said in previous posts that I think belief underpins ideology, but what of the situations that these ideologies create that affect Continue reading
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Fear the machine
Policeman John walks his beat, today accompanied by one of the new law enforcement units, it has no name but it is designated PO7-32-Z$. As they pass each house the unit accesses a report built from various dBs, a report that holds all the info on the assets and occupants. Suddenly in a flurry of Continue reading
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Off culture
People go hill walking to achieve something very distinctive. The goal is to step out of culture space and discover what defines us in nature, where we are a part of, and in tune with, the earth and the sky, and all the animals. It might sound like I’m about to get spiritual, purge that Continue reading
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Something else, something bigger
I don’t believe in a man made god, though I’m willing to think there’s something, maybe. It’s the staggering unexplainably of consciousness, a thing that has no necessity to the universe, that drives that doubt. If the universe is 6000 years old according to Bible scholars, then it’s easy to imagine a god creator because Continue reading
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No bad hugs
I’m not a man given to outward expressions of sentiment toward my fellows normally, though I am someone that recognises how friendships make our lives worthwhile. For me it’s the point of, the meaning in, life itself. Many people draw false meaning, attach themselves to a purpose of their existence whereby they equate the accumulation Continue reading
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I just don’t get it !
I wanted to look at a modern phenomenon through the eyes of a not so modern person, Luckily I’m fifty now and I qualify as not so modern. For thousands of years people have communicated with each other, and for various reasons. We could speculate that in days past there might have been a good Continue reading
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Time – clocks that don’t tick
Is a clock a clock if it does not work? A deliberate intervention prevents the mechanism from having the potential energy to move the hands, the batteries are removed, maybe it is just broken. My pal did this with a nice timepiece, a carriage clock his mother owned that she was bequeathed from an ex Continue reading
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