When everyone is trying to make periodisations (Anthropocene, Trumpocene, Capitlocene, Chthulocene, Whatsmycene) It is surely the Ceneocene? Sadly, it does seem someone has beaten me to the punch. But wait! There’s more! The Cenes I’ve detailed are but a few of the many Cenes that have percolated to the surface of the junction between science,... Continue Reading →
The Winter’s Tale Year written: 1610 Context of the writing (Shakespeare’s career, political events it was responding to): xx Plot in a paragraph: King Leontes accuses his pregnant wife Hermione of cheating with his old friend, King of Bohemia Polixenes. The Delphic Oracle tells Leontes he is wrong, but it’s only the death of their... Continue Reading →
John Kenneth Galbraith, succinct. “The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.” IT IS A PARAPHRASE. See below... (Also, it's worth your time listening to Heather Cox Richardson, the American historian, and her "Letters from an American." She... Continue Reading →
I am on a National Archives binge. Occasionally you come up against "retained under section 3.4" It's this. Never hurts to submit a FOI, I guess.
We are pack animals, tribal. That's entirely sensible in predictable environments. Those who are "outside the norm" are more likely to get eaten by passing leopards etc. For millennia, doing what the tribe said you should do was very sensible. The trouble starts as systems become more complex, and the tribe's way of life -... Continue Reading →
We are so fubarred. It is bad enough that people believe what they read on the Internet (other than this site, which should obviously be worshipped unthinkingly). But now people have got so idle/credulous that they accept AI slop, without even looking at any actual pages...
It still shocks me. You have to have a grudging admiration (1) for a system of control that is able to turn ANYTHING into an opportunity to do the most important thing in the modern world - to Sell More Stuff. There's an advert for Ribena on Youtube. There's the usual graphics of Sweet Innocent... Continue Reading →
The plays of Bill will get you used to rhyme Iamb addicted to this form of verse And for the better or the worse (the worse!) Am churning lines about all stately crime. Here it is - drumroll please - They offer motherhood and apple pie They dangle gleaming technofix advances You mustn't probe too... Continue Reading →
Is there a journal about we men and the many manny ways we control bodies, discourses, ecosystems (with less and less success, as the decades role on and the Manthropocene collapses). There should be, anyway. Anyway, in response to a bsky post about shoddy journalists transferring their "knowledge" into the security state, I came up... Continue Reading →
Some spam just popped up in my gmail inbox (1) and it gives me perverse hope. Here's a screengrab. The test works like this: If you are dumb and desperate enough to click on "See My Complete Analysis" then the test results are definitely in - you are a credulous moron. Congratulations. (2) Blah blah... Continue Reading →
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