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Tuesday, 14 April 2020
The Conformist Is Always Wrong
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Just because everybody believes something does not make it right. In fact it makes it very likely to be wrong. There is really no idea tha...
How Not Being Allowed to Walk Means We Are Not Allowed to Think
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Our very way of thinking comes in great part from the Ancient Greek way of reasoning and seeing the world. Unlike the oriental tradition whi...
Sunday, 12 April 2020
Debt and War Metaphors
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Before CV-19 struck massive debt had been built up over decades in western nations. Trickle-down theory, much propounded by Margaret Thatc...
Tuesday, 7 April 2020
How Prisons for Immigrants Were the Model for Imprisoning All of Us
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The west's constant military and economic wars and interventionist policies have united with the climate change our economic model has c...
Monday, 6 April 2020
Strange Coincidences of Our Time
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We are all a bit tired of conspiracies - actually, 'punch drunk' would be a better way of putting it. In these times of very fast ch...
Saturday, 4 April 2020
The Why's and the Wherefore's of What's Going On
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The UK's epidemic expert Neil Ferguson has been drastically revising the coronavirus' mortality ever downwards, no longer the dramat...
Wednesday, 1 April 2020
A Stopped Clock Still Tells the Time
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Newspapers and magazines get their money from advertisers, not from sales of the paper itself. That is the reason why free newspapers can be...
Monday, 30 March 2020
Women's Bodies and the Coronavirus
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Emma Barnett writes in The Guardian that "State control over women's bodies is an unforeseen outcome of the coronavirus crisis...
Monday, 23 March 2020
Whatever Happened to Reducing Plastics?
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We're extremely susceptible to manipulation, to be sure. Today I see in The Guardian's lead headline that there are people in parks ...
Friday, 20 March 2020
The Generational Divide
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There has been a lot of intentional confusion about the Baby Boomer generation so I am going to start with a bit of history and a few defini...
Nature and The Police State
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I notice today that The Guardian is suggesting we be encouraged to get out more on our bicycles, which would be without a doubt a good way ...
Wednesday, 18 March 2020
Robber Barons and the Black Death
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There is a mind-blowingly large transfer of money from the 99% to the 1% going on right at this moment and no one seems to be noticing it. ...
Tuesday, 17 March 2020
How Coronavirus Hysteria will Be Very Bad for Young People
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The University of Leeds has looked into inequality in 86 countries and found that the 10% richest consume 20 times more energy than the 10% ...
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