500 years? A thousand?
There should be a term limit set on how long some ancient, historical grievance can be used to justify slaughtering people today.
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literature
Age less
Reading the life stories of the famous achievers of the past and present, you reach a point where they broke through, became recognised, touched by genius, ranked among the immortals of literature, or science, or film, or art. But my breakthrough moments were papered over, muffled, erased from the historic photographs. So I remain disappointed
Not going gentle
Do I really want to spend the declining years of my old age in learning all there is to know about collecting stamps?
Remembrance of…
At my age every day of the year is an anniversary of something or other, but mostly I no longer remember of what. Just as well, in many cases, sad loss in others, but I don’t get to decide which will come back to me with the sound of wind in the chimney, the taste
The old schoolyard
If we knew why, and how, a school classroom, full of students, all from the same town, all exposed to the same experiences, the same information, the same culture and society, can turn out, fifty years on, to be Right and Left, Believer and Atheist, nice and not so nice, we could understand why the
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In a crowded theatre
Donald Trump is the end result of confusing quantity of free speech with quality of free speech
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Crying like a refugee
The way of Empires is to wreck countries all around them and then refuse to accept the consequences.
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Choose your side
Is every country now faced with the prospect of its own version of the Spanish Civil War?
Easy solutions
Homo sapiens will reject any solution to over- population and excess consumption that doesn’t involve killing the other species we share this small planet with, or killing the other humans we share this small planet with.