politics
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Protection racket
For those that value privacy over safety I have to ask, what have you got to hide? What I have to hide is… The things you would use against me if you knew me so well you could predict my reactions to your actions. To measure is to improve, that is a true statement, but… Continue reading
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Who is this they?
“They’ve wanted it for over a hundred years” This is the US president talking about the ballroom absolutely nobody seems to want. The interesting thing is that he reaches for a “they” that indicates in this case, and many others, nothing more than whatever he is currently talking about is his wish. Basically he regularly… Continue reading
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The day the TV turns you off.
I fear social media just as you do, I see it as a force for possible good that will of course be used by the powerful to cement their power if they are able. And if it cannot be used by them they will act to curb it by creating a non-statistics based fear, a… Continue reading
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Delegitimise me
To tackle any issue one must first not delegitimise the position of those persons who caused the alleged problem. All issues are “people” issues, premises on a belief, a position taken by them. Protest is the expression of a disagreement that can find no other method of expression. The people who express their disagreement through… Continue reading
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Against Democracy
Reason cannot be met on the field of intellectual battle with effort alone, your effort will not make your case. How strongly you feel something is practically unimportant to the point you make, in a reasonable society. What I mean by that opening statement is that when people use reason to form their view and… Continue reading
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The Refusal to measure…
The wannabe king has replaced anyone that disagrees with his vision of how things are, not how things should be, bear in mind that these are very different things. One is something we could prove, the other is a trajectory wish. The reason he does this is he wants to be able to say things… Continue reading
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A Strategy…
It’s just my opinion but…. There’s maybe never been a better incentive for improving the energy efficiency of your domicile, collecting rain water, supporting a party that has green and renewable energy policies and a progressive tax position in their manifesto (the Greens), recycling absolutely everything, supporting energy independence nationally, ending fossil fuel dependency with… Continue reading
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Evolves to destruction
Religion will of course evolve toward destruction, maybe never being totally gone though, if it is allowed to evolve that is. What I mean is that any religion born of ignorance will face off against science and discovery until it gives so much ground that it remains only as a thematic, and not a series… Continue reading
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An argument against Omission
I’m going to skip around certain political happenings in a post that doesn’t go anywhere or come to any conclusion. It’s just a wander around some of the things I wanted to say as if they were the unfinished, hardly started notes lying on a desk in no particular order. I may ramble, but as… Continue reading
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When did we stop being reasonable?
Polarisation, the process where by one’s perspective is either wholly at one extreme of the spectrometer, or it is as far the other way from the equilibrium. For folks now it seems that commitment, surety projected, subjective position stated strongly as if it stands as a fact (an objective, demonstrable, and measurable reality), is what… Continue reading
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