I had a conversation with an American and she was delighted the Democrats kept the Senate. I pointed out that with all that has been said that to European mind seems outrageous (the battle over women’s bodies, the racism, the conspiracy theories politically driven) 49 Republican seats seems an awful lot or ignorant and partisan…
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How The Eye Works
It is endlessly fascinating to know few of us see the world the same world, because our eyes pick up differences in shade and colour, see more shadows than others. see more lines than other each other. It is one of the first and most important lessons to learn when viewing ‘works of art’ that…
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Deeply religious countries have a problem. They do not usually know how to treat women. It is a strange fact of human culture that women were not seen as equals without question. but a function both of the desire of men to vie with each other for power, and the vaginocentric manner of their relationship…
Are We All in Limbo
Since the creation of passports the easy travelling from country to country with identity papers and before then, with nothing, has long gone except for the rich. The crossing of the artificial borders we have evolved over thousands of years which, no doubt, will all change again during the millennium, so easy for our ancestors…
Ancient Planets
So they have inferred from our latest methodology of reading light, that there are planets a long way away that were probably capable of supporting life almost ten billion years ago. These planets are no longer functioning as they appear to be in pieces but the idea that intelligence may be that old, and we…
COP27
It is too late. Back in 1982 I read a book called the Green Inheritance by Professor Huxley and then I knew the race to make money was antithetical to the needs of nature. That was 40 years ago. Then I read about the native American (I do not know to which nation he belonged)…
I Know A Man
Very difficult in many ways, hypersensitive in his life, achieved more than most in visual arts literature and had a tortuous mind to deal with that ked to several breakdowns. Unable to get on with any of his children he had only a few close relationships with highly intelligent people who could handle his particular…
America the Brave
I do watch the interviews with Americans by the BBC and others at their elections. The ordinary people who are voters; and the reasons they give for voting the way they do. I object many times to being subject to the ignorance and selfishness of these people. Voting on what happens to them with no…
I Can Only Guess
at how much the banks and businesses are losing to online hacking. My log-ins to ordinary sites have now instituted yet another layer of security and a few people have had the same experience I had, of money being taken through the debit card and neither the police nor the bank fraud department going to…
If Only Teachers …
were allowed teach. The Greeks gave us what we consider to be the foundation of our modern ideas of nations, if not the foundation of nationhood itself being ingrained with some democratic values (they did vote for some stuff). Teaching thought is interesting because as adults they believed in deep discussion and were impressed enough…