Existential
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A writing wish
If there is one TV series I wish I’d written it would be black mirror, it’s just so fudging clever. Most Sci-fi and fantasy, not sure this is the correct genre, postulates the idea of an alternative, a future trajectory, a misunderstood past event, or a clean slate after a disaster. Some imagine myths, some Continue reading
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I’d eat the forbidden meat…
I’d eat a human… Weird thing to say that, but in some circumstances I believe it to be true. Peter Singer, a guy I am a big fan of, postulated the idea that animals are no different to people and people are no different to animals, we just happen to be smarter and more able Continue reading
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What’s this ‘WE’ business?
When asked once, while speaking to a bunch of students, to make up a short inspiring poem, Muhammed Ali said “Me. We”. I think this is still the shortest known poem in the English language. What he meant is that I am part of who you are, and vice versa, but he was talking about Continue reading
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Human moments, Human structures, Human folly…
We find ourselves at a funeral. Happening is a human moment, one of mourning, where people feel and express the emotions that come to them while they focus mostly on what the person who has died meant to them, and somewhat on the other people who are attending. They’re thinking they haven’t seen this or Continue reading
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Encourage the rebels
The path to greatness is not followed by staying within the lines with your crayons, EVERY intellectual and EVERY scientist and EVERY artist we know by name or reputation got to their position of greatness by being a rebel, dissatisfied, frustrated, and belligerent. So if your child disagrees with their tutors, or you, or even Continue reading
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Inferred, Suggested, insinuated…
I’m about to say some controversial things, they may upset, they may annoy, but I do this. Read it with an open mind, then decide. As ever, I am not an expert and I’m willing to be dead wrong… All advertisements are basically a load of bollocks, and because of them, and other tv shows Continue reading
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Profiling
If advertiser’s notice, or know through research, that the majority of sci-fi TV programmes are watched by white males between the age of 15 and 45, and they target the ads on that channel toward that demographic…. Then how is it any different when the police target the specific groups of persons who, through research, Continue reading
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Ordinary wonders
Our Mr Dracula describes the now to an ordinary citizen that he has invaded the house of. She thinks her home is a dump, he considers it a palace compared to the things he has seen in the past. “I knew the future would bring wonders, I did not know it would make them ordinary” Continue reading
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Anger cannot be ignored
People are rioting, the media is blaming social media and specifically a man known as Tommy Robinson, but what exactly is going on? In the simple explanation, the far-right has risen and they have used misinformation to weaponise fear and sympathy into public anger. For me it is too simple to present people as thugs Continue reading
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A very fragile ego
I’ve said it a few times, some people just think far too much of themselves to order from the menu…. What does this mean? I think that the more insulated the ego is from the forces of reality, and the force that is other people, i.e. the way in life you must compromise all things Continue reading
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