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Philosophy, life and painful things. Let's go on a journey…….


Psychology

  • She is angry!

    She is angry!

    My partner has had enough, she’s irate with anger, seething, incandescent with rage, over an advert for a Nike sports bra where the item is being reviewed by a so-called transgender person. I say so-called because I won’t allow such a thing to be considered a truth on my personal blog, as far as I Continue reading

  • Misogyny in the forces

    Misogyny in the forces

    Misogyny, as a result of genetic imbalance, is not misogyny. It is not possible that evolution, making one species and the genders it contains differently structured for differing advantages, could contain a will for the traits that worked out to be most useful to be lesser in one than the other since evolution has no Continue reading

  • Speaking so as NOT to be understood

    Speaking so as NOT to be understood

    If we reckon that the goal of good communication is to be understood by those we are communicating with, then what could possibly be the goal of bad communication? In this piece I will refer to the person giving information as the communicator, and the person getting as the receiver, if that makes it seem Continue reading

  • Control the Narrative

    Control the Narrative

    What the powerful have always wanted is to control the narrative of their lives, to create an image of themselves in other peoples eyes, this has been very important to them for a long time. We can see this motivation played out in history when thinking of the Roman Emperors (Domitian became a hero to Continue reading

  • How did you expect them to be?

    How did you expect them to be?

    This is a possible explanation, not an excuse, nor a mitigation of wrongdoing.. The problem is this…. Given what we know of people who do harsh things as a living or a vocation, the human deprivation they witness, the suffering, the injustice, the loss and pointlessness and hopelessness ordinary people just walking through their daily Continue reading

  • Praising a Facade

    Praising a Facade

    I’m about to appear like a terrible person but hey ho, they’re just thoughts, I do not rule the world. When a person posts a picture of themselves on a social media site that does not accurately represent the physical specimen that they actually are is bad enough, it’s a con, bullshit. I’ve referred to Continue reading

  • The non-Human

    The non-Human

    I watch Love Island, before you judge that fact bear with me a while and I will explain…. Jean Baudrillard speculated that in modernity there was little reality since every experience can be replicated and shared. That we live in a simulated world where life, daily life, is a series of constructed events where the Continue reading

  • Contemptable Verbiage

    Contemptable Verbiage

    Contemptable Verbiage is a term my older brother Peter used to use, I have no idea where he got it.. I am pretty sure it’s now just a circus, the news I mean, the mainstream, every-day, vanilla, standard news. The problem with it is its lack of purpose and relevance, who it’s speaking to, who Continue reading

  • I’d like to take her seriously but she looks like she doesn’t want me to..

    I’d like to take her seriously but she looks like she doesn’t want me to..

    Imagine if you will that you are sat in a pizza restaurant one evening having a meal, you notice that although there are a lot of people busy at the ovens, the place is virtually empty of live souls. What you haven’t noticed is that every few minutes a guy comes in with a turquoise Continue reading

  • Power corrupts us, do we corrupt power?

    Power corrupts us, do we corrupt power?

    I’ve done a little bit of guest lecturing, not as much as I intended to though, and I hold court regularly when anyone is too tired to flee or is maybe being nice and humouring my egotistical need to express everything I think about. Let’s halt there for a moment though, I’m not a preacher Continue reading