politics
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Do it for no other reason
I spent a lot of time on YouTube watching documentaries about the lives of poor US communities and I was shocked to see how the richest country in the world regularly treated its marginalised people. They basically abandon them to charity. The theme that runs through each is the prideful nature of the inhabitants of… Continue reading
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Uniqueness
I wished to explore the idea of uniqueness, the individual, the self and the myriad of differences between one self and another. What is it about persons that makes them them, given that we are all made mostly out of the same materials as each other, the dust from long gone stars according to Prof… Continue reading
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Other flags
Two of my cats have not gotten along well, both males and territorial. They first fought, then avoided, but now they sit on a bench a foot from each other. Peace has broken out. I personally support the right of Palestinians to self determine and occupy the lands of their forefathers, but I do not… Continue reading
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Dissecting the Tommy mind
I decided to do an experiment on my intellect this weekend, I would expose myself to the rhetoric of what is portrayed as the far right wing. I know what I mean by the term right wing, I am in no doubt about what I see this term to represent, but that may change as… Continue reading
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Deliberate Abstract
When a circus is in town they put up posters, you could see and know it was a circus flyer from the back of a galloping horse as you passed, you’d likely even catch the venue and date. Yet when you see a planning application stapled to a telegraph pole, that fucker couldn’t be harder… Continue reading
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When the natural is wrong
Andrew Tate could be 100% thematically correct about what a man is and what a man desires, but still nobody should follow, adhere, and act in line with his perspective, simply because societies cannot be formed based on human animal instincts. Yes, in evolutionary terms we are an animal, and an animal has a set… Continue reading
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Rendered Useless
Some of the joy in life is provided by going forward in a meaningful way. It is a beautiful and worthwhile thing to grow as a person, to develop new skills, to have new conversations, to become a better person or operator of the tennis racket. What AI, big data, and bio-metric interventions (technologies built… Continue reading
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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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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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Find the right reasons
I’m convinced that the constant focus on pornography and violence is a distraction from what is really wrong. A subject that the media, owned by those that benefit most from peddling the false porn and violence narrative, refuses to speak on. Inequality, and every social malady it drives, that is the real problem. I’m not… Continue reading
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