Has it ever known peace, this sad and beautiful land.
Tag: 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.
Post Scarcity
How many lives lost in competition for scarce resources.
To be a Prisoner
I spent the week incarcerated in Calais. It lead me to contemplate the unimaginable horror of prison life.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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?
A Moral Dilemma
My own petty, unimportant and irrelevant moral dilemma should teach me something about the world and how to improve it.
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?
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.
War – Why do the Nations rage?
War has its origins in the very first animal life to evolve on earth.
Weltanschauung 