I have only now, in the evening of my life, come to understand that civilized society is a dream, not a reality.
Day after day the paint peels a little more off the facade of my world. The civilized world. The 'First World'. As a species, we homo sapiens had …
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This rat-like creature has just had a bath. He looked much worse before that.
You may recall from my previous treatise that my wife found a pitiful mangy-looking furry object in our front flower bed late one night. She named him Charlie.
Practically a Miracle Transformation …
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UNTENABLE adjective
Something that cannot be defended or maintained. A situation that is not sustainable for the long term.
Arisotle suggested reason, that is, rational thought, was the thing that mainly differentiated human-kind from other animate life-forms on the Earth. Since then …
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The woods behind our house. Thick, full of danger.
"Did you hear that?" I ask. "What?", she says. "I thought I heard a cat crying in the woods out there." She stops, listens and says, "No, I don't hear anything."
I go on about my business …
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Image: Inspiringly beautiful, and yet deadly.
A Frenchman shares my thoughts. Maybe my thoughts are not so strange after all.
I stumbled upon a documentary on Amazon Prime the other night. Legacy. Narrated by …
read moreIn 500 B.C. that may well have been true. Even 100 years ago, that may still have seemed true.
However, the expanding mass of humanity has engendered new perspectives, and from those perspectives we draw new conclusions.
Careful examination of the …
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Your world is not my world,
Is not his world, is not her world.
Our world is a mixed world,
Made of their world plus yours.
Eight Billion Worlds.
There are eight billion worlds,
Each one the same, with nothing in common,
Each knowing the other but not the same …