Climate change resists treatment as a set of isolated variables. It is not reducible to emissions inventories, technological substitutions, or regional agreements. It is a whole system phenomenon, where every action is bound into the larger field, and every tension is a projection of the system itself. The key property is not in the fragments […]
Don’t let the unexpected arrival of a lifelong friendship blind you to its simplicity: no expectations, only compassion. If they expect anything from you which is in any way, shape or form beyond those things that will nurture your safety, well-being and happiness – then they are not your friends. Friendship is a kind of […]
…and this, this is the yawning abyss at the heart of Democracy; that is, it is a system so exquisitely poor at selecting individuals of sufficient aptitude, intelligence and enduring moral character to perform the roles into which they might find themselves unwittingly flung.
The true measure of value and of political, organisational and ideological sincerity is the extent of persistent selfless sacrifice and unselfish compassion.
Daedelus Kite 