The Chicken and the Egg
You know that old riddle about the chicken and the egg and which came first? I had an idea about…
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Legacies of scapegoating and persecution in the Palestianian genocide
In the current waking nightmare and trauma mill into which Mesopotamian geopolitics has degenerated, one question stands out above all…
Regimes of unpaid labour over the Covid-19 pandemic
School closures during the Covid pandemic have placed an added burden on parents to perform at home what is ordinarily…
What will history say about the Voice to Parliament?
Despite its very conspicuous lived history of indifference and neglect towards indigenous people, the Federal ALP touts the Voice to…
Completing the democratic revolution
In the global North, we are indoctrinated from an early age in the ideological morés of liberal capitalist electoralism, the…
The personal is political. The private isn’t
As Carol Hanisch pointed out in her eponymous 1970 essay, the personal is political. Many of not most or all…
Ideological coping mechanisms in the end-times
End of days-type periods are hardly unknown throughout history; the fact that empires rise and fall is a truism, a…
A Penal State of Mind
Australian nationalism promotes the claim of a nation-state united under the Australian flag, but thanks in particular to racism and…
Rising Above the Thinking that Created the Climate Crisis
Advance apologies for the not very accessible writing style. As a clear and present threat to humanity, the climate crisis…
I think after almost 20 years I finally made sense of Mulholland Drive
[Spoiler warnings] I think Mulholland Drive is a movie about how Hollywood seduces and destroys people. Betty (Naomi Watts character)…