the world is shifting to illiberal stances that defy the general movement of thinking to more liberal policies. We see India coming up and walking the tightrope with the Muslim world, we see the Muslim world fractured between western leaning and traditional mindsets, we hear leaders taking a pro or anti stance to Russia and…
Month: November 2024
Little Trump
Long ago a politician said a successful leader is the one who takes the people where they want to go but makes them think they got there because of him/her. There is a lot of talk today about how Americans have been suckered into voting for Trump but his form of fascism in what the…
Waiting
Sitting on the motorway coming home at 3 am in the morning with a police car flashing everything in front of us and displaying a continuous ‘STAY BACK’ and all three lanes coming to a slow stop for half an hour, was a new experience. <y Canadian friend said he had never seen a police…
The Ascent of Dissent
Most of my education and certainly my university days were spent discussing, even arguing with people and very often being shown the errors in my thinking. It is interesting to find yourself on opposite sides with people who meet daily and have classes with, or debate with, and how familiar they become and how you…
This is the Mystery
Self-awareness. What is the ‘I’ when we use it? Whatever this idea of self is it has given rise in tandem with ego and vanity to absurd religious concepts that we are the centre of the universe and were made by a divinity. It also transfers itself to a belief that ‘we are right’ when…
The Right Key Combinations
I recently – yesterday o be exact – was typing too fast as usual and managed to override the one key tap to load certain programmes like the browser and open office and instead had to press the function key first and then the right key. It annoyed me to have to press two keys…