You can’t never go wrong cuttin’ fence…
Asides
Corruption and short-termism are pushing us along the path of sorrows. Via Dolorosa.
If the ‘hardest-worked river in the world’ can recover to this extent, almost anything is possible. Where Hope Flows.
The dictate that one ‘not speak ill of the dead’ is (at best) appropriate for private individuals, not influential public figures. Margaret Thatcher and misapplied death etiquette.
Here’s one of the big ideas we need to fight the power of the elite. The Spark of Hope.
The line that separates the public from the private sphere is arbitrary, but fiercely policed. Line of Battle.
I want to be a curator of myself, an anti-preneur, a person. The anti-preneur manifesto.
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Hobgoblins (H. L. Mencken)
2009-01-01
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
With about twenty hours of solitude a day, I had plenty of time to think in prison…
Bruce Alexander was interested to find that there have been many times in human history when addiction was practically nil…
The title of this chapter is not a prediction, but a hope, which I will soon explain…
War-Guilt (Hermann Hesse, 'Steppenwolf')
2007-02-05
Now and again I have expressed the opinion that every nation, and every person, would do better, instead of rocking himself to sleep with political catchwords about war-guilt, to ask himself how far his own faults and negligences and evil tendencies are guilty of the war and all the other wrongs in the world, and that there lies the only possible means of avoiding the next war…
The Tree of Tyranny (Gerrard Winstanley, 'A New-yeers Gift for the Parliament and Armie')
2006-11-18
While this kingly power reigned in one man called Charles, all sorts of people complained of oppression…
The poorest man hath as true a title and just right to the land as the richest man…
Paolo Freire says, ‘I am more and more convinced that true revolutionaries must perceive the revolution, because of its creative and liberating nature, as an act of love…
The Earth Belongs to Nobody (Jean-Jacques Rousseau, 'Discourse on the Origin of Inequality')
2006-11-05
The first man who having enclosed a piece of ground, bethought himself of saying ‘This is mine’, and found people simple enough to believe him, was the real founder of civil society…
Disproportionate and unaccountable power, then, is not healthy. It merely bolsters an artificial sense of being somebody...
Whenever I came home with a good catch, I’d share it out as I cycled home the 5 miles through Ranish, Crossbost and Leurbost villages…