I always wondered how people can see the same facts and draw different conclusions. Then i realised how much conditioning goes on in schools around the world and what flags can be used for. Then I saw how enmity is transferred unencumbered from generation to generation. Then I saw how class division is fostered and…
Author: Daniel
Is A Work of Art
a work of art because the maker always intended it to be? We think of Michelangelo’s cartoons as works of art – he did not. Is anything human beings make a wok of art? they want you to believe ready-mades and mass manufacture and found objects are all works of art. Is a work of…
An Aesop Fable
The Astrologer A man who lived a long time ago believed that he could read the future in the stars. He called himself an Astrologer, and spent his time at night gazing at the sky. One evening he was walking along the open road outside the village. His eyes were fixed on the stars. He…
Too Much Mind
I have been heavily involved in seeing through a probate which by the end of this month will have taken two years and taught me more about Inheritance tax in the UK and US than I ever wanted to know. I have also been trying to read, create new books and look after a friend’s…
A Metaphor
A flotilla carrying aid that we discover had no aid on board any of the vessels. If ever there were a perfect metaphor for the lying that goes on, on the Internet today posing both as truth and as knowledge that is it. The Internet was given as a gift that would open up learning…
What Is total War?
The German people under the Nazi regime went all out on total war showing no regard either for the enemy soldiers, civilians and in the face of defeat, their own population. Driven by a fanatical belief in their whiteness they brought their own country to utter disaster and killed millions of people in the process….
The Faerie Queen
Lo I the man,° whose Muse whilome did maske, As time her taught, in lowly Shepheards weeds, Am now enforst a far unfitter taske, For trumpets sterne to chaunge mine Oaten reeds, And sing of Knights and Ladies° gentle deeds; Whose prayses having slept in silence long, Me, all too meane, the sacred Muse areeds To…
Virtue Signalling
I have heard a good deal about virtue signalling in the past months and it seems to be a criticism of people doing things that show willing and caring but achieve nothing and risk nothing. It reminds me of the hours we spent arguing politics in the Junior Common Room and other places while possessing…
We Have Arrived
We have come to the place where you cannot believe either what you see on the Internet or what you are being told you are seeing. It has gone way beyond the jokey singing penis of the mid-1990s. Now you can see real people doing unreal things, real things transposed in time and place to…
Fair in kind and Fair in fact
I hear people constantly telling us that the Labour Party is not living up to its promise of being caring. They cannot. They have to abide by the financial system and that system is not ethical and never has been. so leaders want to care and they say they do but none of them can…