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Impossible destinations
Honesty with other people can be difficult; honesty with ourselves can prove to be impossible…
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The Problem of Evil
When bad things happen to good people…
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A Rusty Spring
It is as though every Sunday night some unrepentant fiend winds up the vast mechanical and rusty spring of my working week and then, yet again, I must endure the tedious unfurling of this coil through until the welcome arrival and cathartic release of Friday evening. Working life probably only seems to be the wasted […]
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Ransomware
An enduring irony of structured attempts to prohibit various nefarious behaviours (including cybercrime) is that the actions taken tend to create evolutionary selection pressures which unwittingly produce the next generation of successful technological malfeasance. Viewed holistically as an ecosystem or complex emergent-systems environment of all possible behavioural states or technological solutions, any specific measure taken […]
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Aesthetics, Language, History
It only takes a few colours, a few shapes for the human mind to impose order upon otherwise patterned chaos. Visual processing largely follows its own logical rules, not unlike language, physics or mathematics. Just as with language, visual aesthetics and the logical intelligibility of any specific imagery is partially hard-wired in the brain as […]
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Uncertainty
Do you ever get the feeling that no one really ever knows what they are doing ?
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Metalogical
We become ensnared in the grand circularity of texts and philosophical assertions or opinions which characterise and compose the shared world of belief and illusion…
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Art without Affirmation
Valuable intellectual, artistic or literary creative work is not dependent upon affirmation…
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Letting Go
The discomfort caused by the dissonance between what (we think) we need to be and what we actually are…
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Reflections: Don’t Feed The Troll
There is no sense in which the normative value of a consensus morality is the central concern for a bully or online troll. Piranha feeding at a corpse do not much care for the reason the corpse lies before them in the water…
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Social Media: The Shame Game ?
The hyper-sensitivities of online social spaces have created a new moral matrix…
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