Abraham Lincoln said it better than anyone at Gettysburg when he pointed out that while one mourns the dead, the best way to respect them is to fight on for what they believed and see their greatest dreams realised. “But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground….
Category: Quotidial
There IUs No Such Thing As Good and Evil
There are just human beings. There is so satan and no god and no eternal cosmic battle, there is just an intelligent ape-like being grappling with its actions and not doing very well. Ascribing its actions to beings of immense divinity and power obscures the rationale it gives itself for certain actions. It foregoes any…
Pricing Art
I was interested recently when an artist and critic priced a painting by an unknown artist at £2000. The painting was a late work. While in an auction eight years ago a painting by the same artist when he was a young man was priced at most at £250. The former was pricing the work…
Resets
The United Kingdom has a problem: the extreme racist vote of Brexit is still holding its trade back at a time when trade is seen as the only way to dig itself out of the hole privatisation has placed it in. Investment has not been as big as it needed to be from the private…
Forgetfulness
I drove a lady for a respite lunch this afternoon and chatted to her about her life. She had lived all over the world with her accountant husband and neither of them can remember much about it. I tried to ask her what she thought of Paris, how she found India but she was unable…
Iran
I loathe war. It is the most hateful aspect of human activity even if it is an expression of our human personality. I also dislike rabid religion that wishes the whole world to be made in its image and subjugates individuals to ancient traditions that were not informed by deep knowledge or any science. And…
Internet Research
Most research done by the public these days is a matter of reading one or two articles or watching one or two videos they find. They don’t do much more research on those writing or talking than reading the cv on the site. They don’t then write to a leading academic in the field to…
Sadness
I have been thinking these past few minutes about the deaths of the beings I loved. It began with the pain my last dog was in when she died but then I thought of how lonely one of my dogs must have been who died in a cage in the vet waiting to be seen…
Changing Times
When I had my interview for university I was asked in my recent reading what surprised me most. When I answered I was asked what I thought about the fact that other writers took a contrary view of what had surprised me and I said I thought there might be and if I were to…
Weather
The Hurricane presently hitting the USA leaving people without power, killing at least 3 in Atlanta and surprisingly responders being killed, and leaving a huge amount of debris across its path makes one wonder. If this most advanced country is so adversely affected for 6 million people at one time, what is going to happen…