Society
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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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The cruel chemistry
It’s the cruellest of universal jokes that man is configured his way and woman hers, that these two incompatible beings, and I am about to tell you what I mean by that statement, are attracted to each other so strongly that they will wave all sense so as to promise each other forever and bind 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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A horse to water
William Buckley’s words were sophisticated, maybe too much so for the audience he was speaking to, and certainly we would not recognise the style now as something we could relate to. Such assuredness and confidence oozing out of each elongated sentence, performance notes in the execution of every critical word, pauses timed and positioned with Continue reading
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He bought stuff
He inherits money, buys stuff, that stuff goes up in value, so he buys more stuff, the value rises again. He goes from wealthy to very wealthy, so he buys more stuff, that stuff goes up in value too. Someone else is designing and engineering this stuff, someone else is making this stuff, someone else Continue reading
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The sheep that doesn’t know the shepherd
I’m going to have yet another pop at that fascinating show Love Island. How people are picked for love island is because they are pure id, I see them as unreal undeveloped people with zero worth or talent. The sort of people who want to realise their own desires and the expression of them without Continue reading
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Cortisol and insult
Cortisol, the stress hormone. I’m not a doctor, and I’m not one of those nitwits that has “done my own research” on the internet. There must be a reason to believe something, some science behind it. Luckily there is a lot of good evidence that how you feel psychologically will contribute chemically to how you Continue reading
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Links in a chain
I’m not going to try to give you, the reader, a business lesson. In this piece we are going to examine a mistake of perception instead. Unfortunately for both of us though, in order to spot the mistake we need to begin by understanding all the individual stopping points along the path between the initial Continue reading
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Directed shame
I wanted to explore an idea, that of shame being a weaponised human emotion. This thought came to me while talking to my partner Em about a social news article we heard in the car while going somewhere. Sparked by the subject matter I asked Em what she thought, as I often do, primarily because Continue reading
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Street Rangers?
I’m about to make what is called a slippery slope argument. I am aware that this tactic can be rather flawed but I will try to stay away from drawing too much inference from the initial postulate and stick with what is likely in an effort to not appear to be a tinfoil-hat wearing internet Continue reading
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