‘The Predicament of Man’ – Arthur Koestler
Not a bad essay this one. THE PREDICAMENT OF MAN By Arthur Koestler Excerpted from his book The Ghost in the Machine. All our Righteousness are as filthy rags. –…
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a Great Metaphor for the US Response to 9/11, Amongst Other Things
The 2014 remake of Dawn of the Planet of the Apes is a great movie. It also features a sequence which, from the point of view of the history of…
Panic Hiding in Plain Sight: The Terror Scare
The use of the term ‘War on Terror’ to describe the West’s campaign of military aggression in and around Iraq over the last decade has long been contentious. How do…
Some rules for living a good life as far as I can tell
In no particular order: 1. Knowing that change and impermanence are the greatest constants in the universe (even more so than death and taxes), and being able to keep on…
Whiteness: The Great National Safety Valve
The US historian Frank Van Nuys once described racism as ‘the great national safety value,’ a means for the powerful and well-to-do to take the heat off themselves by shifting…
An Advance Sale of Stolen Goods
“Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods,” wrote the famed American journalist and satirist H.L. Mencken. If the mark of genius is the ability to…