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Taliban

Has it ever known peace, this sad and beautiful land.

Happiness, Peace, Violence

“What is it like to be”……Trump?

The soon to be ex President of the USA represents everything that is wrong with our species and yet what must it be like to live inside that shell of violent emotion? We should pity the man and people like him.

Donald Trump, Hatred, Trump, Violence

Post Scarcity

How many lives lost in competition for scarce resources.

Competition, Conflict, Violence

To be a Prisoner

I spent the week incarcerated in Calais. It lead me to contemplate the unimaginable horror of prison life.

Jail, Mental Health, Prison, Violence

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.

Aggression, Gillette Advertisement, Sexual Equality, Toxic Masculinity, Violence

Will the meek inherit the earth?

For some years I have assumed that far from inheriting the earth, the meek will be trampled underfoot.  I am beginning to wonder whether I am mistaken.

Meditation, meek, Peace, quiet, Silence, Violence

The Internet Troll and the Origins of Conflict

Internet forums are the perfect place to understand the petty origins of conflict.  The Troll must be studiously ignored.

Anger, Conflict, Internet Trolls, Qualia, Troll, Trolling, Violence

Fauda – Do we, Should we Watch It?

My latest Netflix Binge is Fauda – a violent, compelling and visually superb take on the Arab Israeli conflict.

Arab Israeli Conflict, Brutality, Fauda, Netflix, Torture, Violence

Psalm 137: Happy the one who takes your little ones, and dashes them against the rock.

Someone in Canterbury Cathedral (the Dean perhaps?) decided that Verse 9 was going a little far .

Book of Common Prayer, Church of England, Jihad, Psalms, Psalter, Violence, War

Division and indoctrination, greed, violence and politics.

Why does society have to be so divisive? Why does political posturing have to increase polarization and seek to indoctrinate?

Division, Hatred, Indoctrination, News, Violence

A Moral Dilemma

My own petty, unimportant and irrelevant moral dilemma should teach me something about the world and how to improve it.

Aggression, Behaviour, emotion, Family, Greed, Morality, Peace, Violence

The Absurdity of Land Ownership

How has it come to pass that a tiny handful own the vast majority of this tiny spaceship we call the Earth?

Equality, Ethnic Cleansing, Greed, Robber Barons, Violence

Right Honourable Gentlemen

There can hardly be a sight so little edifying as the Right Honourable Gentlemen of the House of Commons in full debate.

Anger, Politicians, Violence, War

War – Why do the Nations rage?

War has its origins in the very first animal life to evolve on earth. 

Violence, War

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