politics
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Strategy for a post-truth existence
I’ve got to admit to struggling to get my head around the now. I thought maybe it was a generational thing, and there may be some truth to that yes. However, if I am honest, if we are still allowed to be honest, I think the issue might be that I do not have a… Continue reading
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Constants end
I’m not going to tell you the details, but it’s been a month, and at the point of writing this it’s still that month… There are things in life that seem like they’ve always been there, and then they’re not, and it’s a shock when they go. My neighbour has this year experienced her husband’s… Continue reading
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You didn’t ask!
My TikTok feed is full of white men marching the streets of London calling for an end to immigration. These guys have a cause, not one I believe in, but one they feel strongly about. It made me wonder if they had had any children? I assumed that most of them must have, these are… Continue reading
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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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