politics
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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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A good life
The most important philosophy is the good life, unfortunately nobody has ever been able to define what this is satisfactorily. Every philosopher in history has been trying to give humanity their take on what is the best way to live, personally, spiritually, or structurally. Mozi is the origin of the golden rule, where the treatment 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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Watching it crumble
I had an interesting conversation with my fiancés dad recently, he was saying something about a news spot that was on TV at the time. I, with my usual blunt instrument of a perspective, wished to get into it further. I often do, because what interests me is not the phenomenon, but what enables it. 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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Are there unforgivable things?
I watch the news, so do you. We make judgments on what we see and we comment to our spouses about how we think the perpetrators of the crimes we are told of should be treated, how they would be treated if it were up to us. I suspect one of the reasons we feel 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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Dracula again
“Democracy is the tyranny of the uninformed” Count Dracula (character), Dracula, Netflix series Again our protagonist utters an interesting and thought inspiring phrase. I just love the writer of this show for picking out short and subtle ways to distil momentous arguments that could fill many pages in a philosophy manuscript. Here we see the 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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