If you are going to talk to people at all, make sure they are people you do not know and are foreign as regards your class, tribe or social milieu.
Month: June 2019
On Facing Daemons
“Exi ergo, transgressor. Exi, seductor, plene omni dolo et fallacia, virtutis inimici, innocentium persecutor.”
Hobbiton-on-Sea
One of the advantages of living in Middle Earth is observing the locals at work and play.
Game of Thrones 8
If you think it’s all about sex, dragons and slaughter you might just be wrong. It’s also about apocalypse and that I find rather fascinating.
Billions -Faint Disgust?
I watched an episode of Season 2 of Billions last night and was left with an unaccustomed feeling of repulsion. … More
Shock and Awe – Battersea Power Station
How small and insignificant I felt grovelling at the foot of this seventh wonder of the world.
The Destructive Power of Cynicism
Reading of the demise of renowned fund manager Neil Woodford, I was reminded of my deep capacity for destructive cynicism. … More
Original thinking or garbled trope?
Too often writers feel obliged to offer up a digest or synthesis of what they have read rather than contributing anything new or original.
Does Evil Exist?
In the absence of conscious beings with free will, morality can not exist. Picture a universe of infinite violence such as our own with no sentient life.
Seek and You shall Find
In the mental world, in our interior “reality” we can find whatever we want. Whatever we are looking for.