‘The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation’ Henry David Thoreau. Thoreau was right, but he was also wrong. We don’t live our lives with desperation tucked away out of sight, it can be seen by everyone. There’s little in how we live our lives that is not a desperate attempt to achieve something. […]
Diversity Reigns: There is no mainstream culture (and what it means for us)
Is it a sign of the modern times that mainstream thought has shrunk? In the past, there was a core culture of attitudes, beliefs norms and values that people looked towards. The established ways of doing things and how to interpret the world. In society the mainstream was once that men were supposed to be […]
The Four Horsemen of the Modern Apocalypse
While you can come up with many ideas about what problems befall modern society, Ignorance, sin, arrogance, pride. I feel there are some that have been left out. I call these maladies the horsemen, after the Horsemen of the Apocalypse from scripture. In scripture, they were Conquest, War, Famine and Death. Today I feel it’s […]
It’s a brave new world, so now is your time
“I amar prestar aen… (The world is changed.) Han mathon ne nen… (I feel it in the water.) Han mathon ne chae… (I feel it in the Earth.) A han noston ned gwilith… (I smell it in the air.) – Galadriel, Lord of the Rings. It doesn’t take much awareness to notice that the world […]
Avatar idealism: Can it provide a way out of this crisis?
“She’s always going on about the flow of energy, the spirits of animals. I really hope this treehugger crap isn’t on the final.” This is Sully talking about the nature and ideals of the Na’vi. His worry is that it’s all just meaningless mumbo jumbo. I just feel that perhaps because of this ‘treehugger crap’ […]
Is mobile technology threatening our social skills?
On my way home from London the carriage was almost quiet. Few people talked. They were either reading a paper, a book, or like myself engrossed in their phone, tablet, or laptop. But its not just here, technology has worked it’s way into our social life everywhere. We talk to each other keeping one eye […]