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culture

Empty World

Some number of years ago now, I remember witnessing a filmic representation of something written by Charles Bukowski, its title eludes me. This was perhaps characteristically, miserably bizzarre and featured some peculiar and wicked strand of thought concerning a discovery that the narrator was the only real person and everyone else he encountered were soul-less, […]

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culture

Enigma: Dissolution and Emptiness

The psychological self is itself so deeply intertwined with the world from which it accumulates its ideas and opinions that it is in itself actually profoundly empty and void…

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culture

Minds: Individual and Collective

Have you ever considered that the myriad sorrows and insecurities we all share are really not ours at all?

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culture

Contexts: Conflict and Collaboration

Ours is a world in which there exists immense and unremitting uncertainty and doubt…

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communication

Rhetorical Poverty: Revisited

That an opinion has been expressed may be a fact but that the opinion necessarily represents a fact (or truth) does not logically follow…

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poetry

The Compass of Time

This was a brief poem I wrote in 2001. The overall feeling is of loneliness and observing emptiness in others…

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culture

Bad Decisions

Decisions, both good and bad, are indelibly inked in time and like the bell which having been rung can not be un-struck, we just have to learn to live with them…

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politics

Austerity Measures

The longer-term and more expensive consequences of wielding political ideology as an economic solution are rarely acknowledged…

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culture money politics

On Flightless Birds

…the more that entrenched camps set themselves up against one another in an unending battle to get one over on the opposition, the less we actually coordinate and focus on the root causes of the problems which divide us in the first place…

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politics

Environmentalism

Any political system or theory which does not place the environment and environmental concerns at the center of their ideological matrix is displaying a short-sighted, selfish immaturity beyond measure…

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culture Psychology

Fake News

If you can not sufficiently defend your own actions and assertions in the public arena without resorting to infantile name-calling in lieu of constructing comprehensive, intelligent defence of your ideological assertions and political positions – you are probably not qualified for the job…

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culture

Memes: Encoding Complexity

A meme is, more or less, simply a unit of information – a quantum of cultural communication.  This is information stored, compressed, perhaps encoded or encrypted in some way.  This information is encoded in such a manner that it can be unpacked or decrypted in useful ways.  This generation of meaning clearly already exists within […]