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The Internet Ain’t All Bad
While there are indeed vast swathes of Kardashians, footballers wives and people who live in Chigwell you should avoid like the plague on the internet, I would argue that the technology has immeasurably enriched our lives rather than debased it.
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Gillette Advertisement Controversy
Good on Gillette: it would be hard to deny that male aggression has played a vast and malignant role in our history.
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Philosophy – Would we need it if we were happy?
Would we spend so much time in hand wringing existential anxiety if we discovered the genetic code of the pain pleasure axis? I rather doubt it. Or if we did, the questions which philosophy has traditionally sought to address would become much less important to us. I was enjoying a discussion on “materialism” on Steven…
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Hospital Blues
If you are feeling bad and want to feel a lot worse, I recommend a trip to your local government hospital.
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Conscious Nonsense
I am deeply disturbed to discover what a search on the word “consciousness” produces when you sift through WordPress websites.
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Quackery and Useless Twaddle
Why is so much of the internet “told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”?
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Depression – Mind or Matter?
The state of depression is easy enough to describe but it is doubtful whether mere words manage to convey the depth of the misery to one who has never suffered from it.
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Me and My Vulva
Well not mine actually – its just that I liked the headline. The Guardian’s article Me and My Vulva gave me pause for thought. And for the first time in a while encouraged me to put pen to paper. Photographer Laura Dodsworth, in a book and accompanying film for Channel 4, tells the stories of…
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Alone in a Pew
If you are going to go to church, go alone and go when it is empty.
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Between the Cracks
I am frightened of homeless people. They remind me how all too easy it is in this world to simply fall between the cracks.