One of our much-vaunted attributes as a species is our resilience. Our ability to recover from trauma, tragedy and setbacks is the stuff of legend. People devastated by wildfires rebuild; parents who lose a child to disease, accident or mayhem have another child; widows and widowers carry on with their
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Politics and its Discontents: When The Outrageous, The Unethical And The Criminal Become ‘Normal’
In the months since the Orange Ogre became the American President, I am sure that, like me, many have become inured to his daily debasement of the fundamental values that most profess to hold dear, justice, dignity, truth and respect being but four of them. What was once an esteemed
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Part Political Theatre and Part Schoolyard Bully
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