Last night, ah, yesternight, betwixt her lips and mine There fell thy shadow, Cynara! thy breath was shed Upon my soul between the kisses and the wine; And I was desolate and sick of an old passion, Yea, I was desolate and bowed my head: I have been faithful to thee, Cynara! in my fashion….
Author: Daniel
It Is Ironic
That America made in the modern era through immigration from the entire world, should have voted in a fascist on the platform of stopping certain immigration. I am not even sure what the rest of the population has against Mexicans as Spanish became the second language of America decades ago. It would be too easy…
The Role of Survival
Professor Perry showed that we are socialised in the first three years if our lives and much of our character and almost all of our personality flows from those early experiences when we can barely talk. When babies are crawling over each other and sharing toys they are also learning about being with another person….
Stop Serving the System
Everyone in the world trading in money i serving a system with rules devised by our ancestors and new rules devised by those who profit the most from the economic system. If we are to be taxed there should be so tax havens. If we are to pay inheritance tax everyone should pay it. If…
Drinking
I never liked the taste of alcohols and loathed the smell of beer. I also never trusted as a teenager friends getting so drunk they vomited or lost motor-functions. As I grew older I was always the one who held a glass of wine in his hand all evening and once or twice a year…
One’s Rooms
Furnishings are supposed to tell you all about your personality. You are even supposed to be able to tell a person’s character by their choice of decoration and furnishings. I’m not so sure. I am more sure that how one chooses to furnish where one chooses to live has everything to do with how much…
Cato the Elder
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…
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…