I have thus far refrained from writing anything about the atrocities taking place in The Middle East. I have nothing constructive to add to the debate. However, I can’t help but make an observation and reproduce the thoughts of another writer, who I will get to in a moment. First,
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Politics and its Discontents: The Burden Of Thought
Over the years of writing this blog, I have made fairly frequent mention of the importance of critical thinking. At the same time, I have usually been quick to add that it is an ideal toward which I constantly strive, one that I frequently fall short of. There are,
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: The American Taliban
One of the main joys of this part of my life is helping to look after our granddaughter, who is now 18 months old and very, very bright and engaged in the world around her. Sometimes, in order to ‘coax’ her to eat, we play some children’s programming available on
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: When Mass Psychosis Takes Hold
It is ugly, and it is real. H/t Aaron Rupar Especially chilling are the hand gestures of the faithful I do hope PP doesn’t see this. Recommend this Post
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Apologies for appropriating the title of one of Carl Jung’s works, but it just seems an appropriate label for this post. I had a dream recently in which my daughter was just a young girl again going to elementary school. She was involved in some kind of basketball tournament, and
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: A Weapon Against Fake News
Living in an age when critical-thinking skills are increasingly hard to find, anything acting as a bulwark against the ignorance and stupidity that seems to inform public ‘debate’ is welcome. Natalie Turvey writes about a weapon that sounds promising. While misinformation, memes, clickbait and outright lies proliferate across our online
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Be Skeptical. Ask Questions.
Given the very strange times in which we live, some sound advice from Jonathan Jarry: Recommend this Post
Continue readingFusing and Musing: And the point is?
After a few years practicing being a social commenter I have come to one certain conclusion. I should probably have my fucking head examined! Grief, that’s what you mostly get. Yet we all plug away, each of us for our own reasons from that unique perspective each of us can
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