No Master Indeed this is the sweet life! my hand Is under no proud man’s command; There is no voice to break my rest Before a bird has left its nest; There is no man to change my mood, When I go nutting in the wood; No man to pluck my sleeve and say —…
Month: January 2023
How Quickly We Forgot
The world was going to change. More people would work from home. Growth was not what life was about. Nurses were more important than businessmen and women. Boom and bust is inherent to the system we must change the system. That was 2008 after the latest financial crash and 2019 during the first and then…
How Communities Work
There is a theory, which bears out in some observations, that we make communities by beings elfish enough to give enough ground to make our own lives easier through the density of the skill-sets of the wider population. That is not how community works. That is how nations work but nations are a series of…
Birth Rates
It is interesting, is it not, that Germany had a low birth rate and open sits doors to thousands of immigrants while Britain feels overcrowded and devolves into a deep set racism, and China faces a crisis of a falling population. Why is this a crisis? We can easily see too many people in one…
Thanks for the Tanks
So the UK leads the allies with 12 Challenger 2 tanks being sent to help Ukraine. With Poland to follow and others across Europe. Putin can say with some veracity that he is at war with NATO and Europe but of course, he started the hot war and carried on the cold war with cyber…
What it is to be a Man
The problem we face is that the role of men to fight in wars and be the provider has always been wrong. It is based on an idea of physical strength and the bigger the man the better – which itself is based on the ability to fight. Both men and women have failed in…
How Little is Power
Gandhi pointed out that the powerful need populations otherwise who are they going to rule? How will they get rich if people are not there to be salaried and pay taxes? He pointed this out by suggesting that unarmed demonstrations against those in power could end up in ones death and but to give in…
Are We Male and Female?
Modern medical science has told us that there are probably some 20+ genders to deal with and the forms which litter our lives which ask if we are male or female are inadequate. Science itself tells us never to simply accept what we see with our own eyes, natural systems are far more complex. I…
Jeanne d’Arc
St. Joan Everything about you shone – First your eyes with fire – As voices spoke through your brain – Your blesséd saints shone around you Such a glory – Your sword gleamed and glinted – Your horse’s skin was like a shining mirror; Where all France could see The Maid of Domremy Riding…
President Jo Biden
It seems at times as a foreign observer that the civil war in the US never ended. The pettiness of the partisan machinations against one president or another, but especially from the \republican Party, are deleterious to the smooth running of a democratic state. Because it as all about wielding power over others, not about…