I am ignorant and I vote
Sad that there are now so many people who take pride in their ignorance, where once it was a mark of a human being to take pride in knowledge, intelligence, and achievement.
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politics
No secret
The secret of success is rich ancestors, relatives in positions of power, and a friend who is a media baron
Naming names
Chamberlain Caligula Bush Petain Mugabe Charles I Nixon Yeltsin Hindenburg Nicholas II Abbott George III Akhenaten Hirohito Louis XVI Pol Pot Trump
Words words words
How many millions of words have I written? Half a million in one book alone, other millions scattered from one end of my life to the other. It would be nice to think one or two will be remembered, else why did I bother?
Certificates
The world seems increasingly ruled by people who are certifiably insane. But perhaps it always was.
A man who is bored with the Universe
I think I’m running out of things to learn. Or perhaps just the desire to do so
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Pardoning turkeys
How could a country whose taste in media is built on extreme heart-warming sentimentality finish up with a nasty arsehole like Trump?
No room in the neurones
He who is tired of learning has been doing it for seventy three years and needs to rest
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Values
Once upon a time the products of high technology – pottery, swords, carriages, furniture, bicycles, wireless sets – were valued and treasured; kept in good repair for many years, decades, passed on from generation to generation. Now mobile phones, ipads, tv sets, video games, cars, houses even, end up in landfill after months, days, hours
Fly away
All of that effort to raise a young Magpie – sitting on eggs for weeks, backwards and forwards bringing beakfuls of juicy worms and beetles, ends as a sad bunch of feathers smeared across a busy road. Much like children in a war zone.