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War Genie
The Big Vacancy does so love the trappings of war and power, although he himself avoided its brutality in his “own Vietnam” (as he once quipped). So, instead, he said, he had put himself in harm’s way...
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“In light of new massacres we’ll say, ‘Our thoughts and prayers go out,’ and get more creative in spinning our involvement to stay profitable.”.… —Official of the Gun Lobby Weightless Thoughts and...
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The Gotti-Trump Connection
Giving Donald Trump credit for the apparent deal between North Korea’s Kim Jong-Un and South Korea’s Moon Jai-In (no doubt a good thing if it turns out to be a thing) would have been like giving the...
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Web of Stories
From Homo Deus -A Brief History of Tomorrow: “Animals such as wolves an chimpanzees live in a dual reality. On the one hand they are familiar with objective entities outside them, such as trees, rocks...
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Living on Paper
—excerpt from Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari “Hunter-gatherers spent their days climbing trees, looking for mushrooms, and chasing boars and rabbits. Their daily reality consisted of trees,...
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The Story Tellers
—excerpt from Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari 12,000 years ago, at the start of the Agricultural Revolution, “Farmers believed in stories about great gods. They built temples to their favorite god,...
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American Heart of Darkness
Reading again Joseph Conrad’s The Heart of Darkness (1890) I came to the following which, in the light of US politics of the early 21st century, may be seen as a late extension of our North American...
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Demographic Apoplexia
Why do we have an unapologetic, racist, misogynist, sexist and (conveniently) xenophobic president as well as a ruling party of sexist, white supremacists (for all practical purposes) with an angry,...
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Wrong Turn
Thoughts on global warming and how we got to thinking nature is our toy or slave rather than our own vital substance. “The Church at the start of the Christian era didn’t know whether to accept the...
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Political Grammar
Spend two minutes online and you’re sure to find something inane. For instance, I ran across a bizarre boast the other day which the poster, after having tweeted, threw onto his Himalayan pile of...
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