This year I am going to write something short, daily, about what is going on – “2 cents on the Arrived Ecological Debacle” (2cotAED). I have to write it; you don’t have to read it. If you DO read it, feel free to tell me how wrong I am (and hopefully why). Re: the debacle... Continue Reading →
This year I am going to write something short, daily, about what is going on – “2 cents on the Arrived Ecological Debacle” (2cotAED). I have to write it; you don’t have to read it. If you DO read it, feel free to tell me how wrong I am (and hopefully why). Re: the debacle... Continue Reading →
This year I am going to write something short, daily, about what is going on - "2 cents on the Arrived Ecological Debacle" (2cotAED). I have to write it; you don’t have to read it. If you DO read it, feel free to tell me how wrong I am (and hopefully why). Re: the debacle... Continue Reading →
So, this year I am going to write something short, daily, about what is going on. I have to write it, you don't have to read it. If you DO read it, feel free to tell me how wrong I am (and hopefully why). They'll be short and (I hope) to the point. Re: the... Continue Reading →
We are told by the new priests to put our faith not in a bearded sky god (sooo 1st and 2nd millennium!) but rather in .... technology. Social problems with Bad Behaviour by the lower orders? Solution: More surveillance (and graded punishments and rewards) - problem solved! Economic problems with low productivity? Solution: More Growth,... Continue Reading →
We are murder apes. Sorry, planet-trashing murder apes is what "we" are (1). How frightfully embarrassing. And yet, you also have to have (2) some sort of compassion for us, so bewildered and capable of lying to ourselves on so many levels. This should not be a surprise, since we are born into lies, we... Continue Reading →
I am speaking of the social "sciences" stuff here. People captured and captivated by the hopium on display, and unwilling (or incapable) of thinking where it might all go. Because to point to the obvious likely dangers ahead would be - I don't know, "normative"? Or would harsh everyone's mellow or something. Or is just... Continue Reading →
Fed swans, ducks and, obvs, moorhens, including juvies. Listened to three podcasts. Notes on a Native Son (different writers on a Baldwin passage - excellent series). This one was Hisham Matar, choosing not a bit from a novel or essay but Baldwin on a talk show in May 1969. A must must listen. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq_jufwQBSM The... Continue Reading →
When we try to educate ourselves about The World, we can easily be misled by popular accounts, either because the author is trying to pull a fast one, or just because well things get 'forgotten. I don't know what the solution is, besides reading loads and remembering most of it? And who has the time?... Continue Reading →
We need a new TLA (Three Letter Acronym) to describe mush and gibberish that sounds profound (at least to the speaker) but is either circular or banal or both. I propose... UHB. It doesn't seem to be "taken" (see here), and the one that does is undersea and hyperbaric medicine, so I could probably play... Continue Reading →
