Life
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Manipulated snow
The distraction of young people realising the power of being offended is useful to the powerful. As my friend Dave E, who has read the great works Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty Four (as I also have), puts his take on it “the road to fascism is clear”. Putting sanitary item disposal objects into… Continue reading
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An argument on the pre-Holocene
Induce or deduce the existing object. Two men argue about far back human history, one uses inductive reasoning, the other deductive, both are wrong and correct at the same time. Person one observes the objects made by man and concludes that these are the products of civilisations during the Holocene, the other sees the same… Continue reading
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A changing river
“No man ever steps in the same river twice” Heraclitus Meaning that everything changes, all the time. The river you stepped in that one time has changed now, it may be the same river nominally, but it is not made of the same material. The water and the fish are not the same, the banks… Continue reading
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Terra Terror ad infinitum
The world watches as one of the more relatively recent powers of the middle east punishes the old tribes of the land they claim they occupied first, and each of us has an opinion on who has justifications and rights. I am a pacifist now, but once I was a soldier, the conflicts that I… Continue reading
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Black and white perspectives
You don’t have to hate anything, hatred is a self harming emotion, you could be indifferent, apathetic, toward any subject or object you choose. I like cats, some people are not fond of them, but that is not the same thing as hating cats and everything about them. The person who says “I hate cats”… Continue reading
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Hypervigilant Jitters
A Hypervigilant pilot will give everyone on the plane the jitters. If leaders act like there is always a need to be vigilant, then their subordinates, underlings, staff, workers, followers, will panic and spread panic. The good leader is calm, they inspire rational action, they help the mass or the mob to better use judgement… Continue reading
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Invisibility, a superpower?
I’m invisible, I’m convinced of it, but this is not a rant…I’m going to tell you about a phenomenon that just is… I went to the plumber’s merchants and was first in the door, nobody else was in the shop. I had a simple enquiry about a washing machine pipe and a coupling. My pal… Continue reading
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Are you not entertained?
These are the words of the Gladiator, delivered by Russell Crowe in the film of that name. I was entertained by that, I am not entertained now.. I figure that we turn on the TV to watch sports because we wish to be entertained. I know that’s why I watch sports anyway. I watched very… Continue reading
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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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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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