Propaganda is a strange thing and I keep getting drawn back to considerations of it; whether it is a good or a bad thing, or simply a tool which depends on the context. The reason I’m drawn back into the subject at the moment is …
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Now I suspect some of what I have written so far has already riled up sections of today’s society, who will have taken (or more accurately, imagined) offence in my words, which deserves a short sidebar on its own. One of the aspects of modern …
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I have pages of notes already for what I want to set down, so I’m not sure if these posts will appear in any sorry of logical order. At least three of my jottings or emails to myself from my phone have added the coda …
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Let’s start off with a big subject. Most of what you know and I know as truth is wrong. A big statement I know, and I don’t refer to the ephemera of everyday experience, but to the big questions. In Western societies, self-defined as ‘first …
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In some respects, there are overlaps between the three terms I’ve chosen, and what randomly comes to mind is one part of the enduring self-help book Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus. I’ll be honest in that, while I have read a fair …
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I address this only to those capable of understanding. To steal a philosophy. And I’ll say up front that I’m a grumpy old man, and proud of it. Nothing wrong with being grumpy. But just to deconstruct that throwaway line, I think there are three …
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