There is a desire in social media to get your meme out to as many people as you can. This includes advertising but if you are selling your work what I am going to write does not include you. Putting up a statement and having people share it is all well-and-good if the statement has…
Month: October 2024
Trickle Down
Much like monetarism suddenly becoming liberal democracy when it proved it didn’t work ‘trickle down’ is not something people say much anymore. They still say it is the entrepreneur who makes the wealth of a country though I recall Thatcher’s brutality was made possible by the Scottish oil fields while the Scots got very little…
The Problem with a Meme
Some are funny and there is no argument against them particularly, people need amusing distractions. But some of the images and wording of facebook and other places are bold statements with no references and no balance and certainly no attempt to be fair-minded. This is a problem. When I sat my interview for college I…
Cleaning
I know spring is the time to clean the house, and I don’t even have a very big place, but I have not really cleansed it except in the middle for a year or more. Now I have friends who want to stay I started by cleaning the outside windows yesterday and the shower room…
We Handle Money Badly
The money system will always make wealthy people and poor people. Money has no ethics unless we put them into the system, otherwise it only wants to make more of itself. It allows avarice and vanity and greed to be rewarded even when laws are broken and people are hurt. It is ludicrous in a…
Tonight in the World
North Korean troops onto the Russian front against Ukraine. If any one thing marks the beginning of the end for the totalitarian regime in North Korea, it is this. Ukraine will not forget this betrayal by a country so far away. This is repayment of the Russian support for China/Korea in the Korean war. Meanwhile…
The Shame of Absolutes
The world is messy. Nature is messy. Not in the sense of chaotic, there are huge amounts of order, but in terms of the admixture of characteristics and outcomes. Shapes and types of emotions. Expectations and some downright luck. And into the messy nature we think we can parachute absolutes and have them make sense….
On A Walk with Rusty
I walked upon the beach at Daymer Bay With Rusty by my side as dawn arose And somewhere in that dawn, we touched a day Where sea, and dog and man could still compose A song that all of nature could complete; Whose harmonies within the hollow shells And Undulating dunes beside bare feet Sang…
Conflict and Countries
Every country in the world has create itself through internal and external wars. No matter how small or large. The history of armed warfare is the history of the human race and much of the better side of humanity – the hopes for peace, the wisdom of civil society, the ethics of laws and trade…
Singing
I don’t know about the rest of you but when I am in a car by myself i usually start singing at some stage. today on a six hour journey to London i did a bit more than usual and started to make songs up based on the road signs. Rhyming became optional the more…