It was a very sad experience to work with someone for three years and to be lied to on the phone by that person mentioning four other people in order to get them fired and for all that was said to have been utterly false. To tell that person they had to admit their lies…
Author: Daniel
What is Weakness? What is Strength?
Despite all the talk and philosophising society still seems to think that strength is powerfulness – military and physical – and weakness is the opposite. Principled behaviour based on empathy and a high regard for ethics is never military and never based on physical prowess. \that is why much of the time it is seen…
All is Human
I don’t know about the academics of the world and the brilliant commentators on every aspect of human behaviour – but I do know about populations and there is not just a tendency but as acceptance to judge other countries, other ‘tribes’ other ‘peoples’ as distinct. They are not. We are all human beings and…
When all the World is Young Lad
When all the world is young, lad, And all the trees are green; And every goose a swan, lad, And every lass a queen; Then hey for boot and horse, lad, And round the world away! Young blood must have its course, lad, And every dog his day. When all the world is old, lad,…
Prisoners
As we welcome home two people who were imprisoned in Afghanistan we should do well to recall how Russia arrests and detains people, how countries around the world will hold people who break the law and how long it takes for the UK to get them out. We would do well to recall that some…
Astonishment
On linkedIn a good many people have banded the word genocide around and recently I suggested the person did not know its definition and they should read up on it. The response was ‘if you have something to chare why don’t you?’ to which i politely replied the charter on genocide was adopted in December…
Real Conspiracies
We know multi national companies are bastards, no argument. They manipulate and defraud for profit. The cigarette industry knew in the late 1930s that cigarettes caused cancer. How many died bringing that to public notice? We know all engines can run on ethanol but the oil barons needed a market to sell their oil into…
9 Days
Without the internet and I went back to reading – a very interesting book by the American Harold Rosenberg, whose sensitivity to the visual artists in remarkable. I wish I had that depth of aesthetic. In the outage I worried about emails but did not miss them. Strange really. Now it is all repaired and…
Dawn
Walking the beach at dawn this morning with my friend and the dog I am looking after until Tuesday. It was fresh and obviously the beginning of autumn but at that time in the morning and this later holiday time, the beach had a very few people on it. two ladies went shimming and I…
Oh Little Taxes
I don’t know why the human mind needed to create money or why our imaginations are so completely overwhelmed by thoughts of it, but I do know it has led to a state where we are all farmed. Not only is there nowhere to go to live without it because all land is owned. Worse…