Saturday, March 21, 2020

A voice in the wilderness

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Earlier in the week I praised an English doctor for the calm, graphical way he explained the current pandemic. Today I want to draw y...
Monday, March 16, 2020

Links I Liked

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Pandemic literature is surprisingly large – we all know of Camus’ The Plague but this very comprehensive article gives us scores more ...
Sunday, March 15, 2020

Coronavirus - who to Believe?

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We’re all flooded with information about Coronavirus – most of it partial, speculative or imaginative, serving to feed our fantasies. We...
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Thursday, March 12, 2020

Peripheral - rather than tunnel - Vision….

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My faithful readers know that at the end of each year, I make a collection of the year’s posts and make them available - scroll down  the ...
Wednesday, March 11, 2020

Facing Extinction?

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How to Save the World is a gloriously-named blog run by Canadian “survivalist” Dave Pollard. It’s a strand of North American life it’s ea...
Monday, March 9, 2020

Links I liked

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I’m now sold on the idea of a weekly ”Links I liked” feature for the blog. It allows me to use the folder in which I keep the hyperlink...
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Sunday, March 8, 2020

on Gods, Robots and the rest of us Superfluous People

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The next two books in my current reading list are bestsellers – by Yuval Harari - ” Homo Deus – a brief history of tomorrow ” (2016) and...
Saturday, March 7, 2020

Breakdown and Crises

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No fewer than 6 very well-written books have been vying for my attention in recent days – all dealing with the sense of breakdown and cr...