I am not one who would be a supporter of Cato or the Roman senate and i would be much more likely to tell him to ally with Carthage rather than call for it to be destroyed. However I do see the reason why he called, no matter the speech he gave, for it to…
Month: April 2025
Institutional ignorance
The more i speak with people the more I find them ignorant abut what politics is or can achieve. The people who vote are interested in their tx burden but also in the way in which government is able to manage society – there is a mistaken belief that society and economics are one-and-the-same to…
History is the Lesson
I tire of people writing on social media regurgitating the things they have read from other social media and seeing so few quoting an historian, or a journal or a law book. They make claims about war that are untrue, they make claims about apartheid that don’t hold water, about rights that don’t exist in…
I consider this to be an absolute truth.
A groundbreaking study published in the journal PNAS is overturning traditional wisdom regarding the origins and inevitability of wealth inequality. Based on a massive dataset of over 50,000 houses in some 1,000 archaeological sites worldwide, the study suggests that economic inequality is not an inevitable result of societal advancement, agriculture, or population. Instead, it seems…
Modern medicine
There are many marvels of modern medicine but there are also huge gaps. When my mother’s salt levels crashed I was introduced to the Endocrine system which, it turned out, are a series of organs in the body that are lumped together because they don’t fit in with the other systems – heart, lung, nerves…
Betrayal
It is hard to have trusted someone and find them out in a terrible series of lies they gave you in order to get their way. To find out she did this at the age of 74 is even more horrible as this is obviously a personality trait. When asked to admit to her lies…
By The Sea
Spent the morning on the Cornish coast in a little cove with the sun shining, the tide out and no one else on the beach. Just me and the dog and the world dying in every corner and as i handles a few of the stones and listened to the waves I thought of how…
In What To Trust
The plethora of laws covering just about everything we do proves that human beings cannot be trusted at their word. though, bizarrely, then tyrants tell you what they are going to do believe them, they usually do it. We cannot always trust our own eyes because the brain interprets so much we can be fooled….
Supplements
I would never discount the need for vitamins and minerals in our diets – we are after all a chemical factory and we need what we have evolved to need. What amazes me is that we have become so inured to bad food that we think supplements is the answer and not an organic preservative…
Kick the Left
I was talking to a friend yesterday and he made a rather cunning point about the Republicans min the USA. Attempting the explain the absurd economic policies they are pursuing he said their entire existence is to fight the socialist ideals they dislike. They do not realise once they have got rid of them, in…