Putting aside the obvious challenges in not getting on with one’s relations, every one of us either goes through a phase, or has a need, to belong. Whether to a tribe, a community or a nation we like to see ourselves as part of some wider human grouping. Even artists who are the archetype outsiders,…
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Communicating With The Impossible
I am always told not to think of animals in anthropological terms, as if to imbibe them with some facets of human character were absurd, degrading or misleading to the animal and myself. Like the journalist who said on the radio his aunt would hear her budgie tweet and say ‘ Listen! every word clear…
To Women
What is the use of a bed without a Woman upon it, to sculpture the sheets With her form and the pillows with her play And make the springs sing at her deep love’s feats? And what is the use of an hour of night Or an hour of the day not resonant With sighs…
I Believe What You Believe
It is a very curious facet of the need to work together that we seem to be a species that needs to think together as well. I am not sure anyone has done much research on this outside of looking at ‘cultural homogeneity’ and I am sure that when a group goes through the same…
Sleep
On the one hand it is almost criminal that we have to spend so much of life sleeping, on the other sleep is a marvelous renewal. Which is why no doubt so many people have such brilliant ideas when they sleep and wake up raring to go and finish whatever it they have yet to…
The Financial Crisis
The planet earth and every single atom of organic and inorganic life on it, was a free gift to humanity. In fact pretty much a free gift to all sentient beings. The biggest free lunch we could conceive of before we conceived of blasting off into the wider Universe where the only thing that will…
Our Priorities Are The State’s Priorities
Desmond Morris was very interesting in his series and book ‘Man Watching’ because he looked behind what we do, to put it into the context of what all animals do. And modern science has begun to show us how richly our actions are determined by glands excreting hormones in our bodies prior too reason getting…
Truth In Language
What is it to be able to say that truth exists in language? Is it more than that language makes some kind of sense to us because they are structured? And that if they veer off the road of sense then they must be false? Put another way, if a sentence follows the rules of…
How Fire Made Water
Sometimes we can understand something better if we look at its opposite, or simply look at it in contrast to something else of a similar or dissimilar nature. After all our understanding of what a lie is, is based heavily on our understanding of what truth it. Many years ago when I worked for a…
The Art Of the ‘Thing’
There is a great debate amongst commentators on the arts, as to whether you can separate the artists from what they create, whether, for example, a painting can be looked at as just a painting or whether you need to know about he artist in order to appreciate it. Now obviously you can look at…