by sustainablesociety | Jan 10, 2020 | Philosophy
Essay by Michel De Montaigne (1533-1592). Many years before Irvin Yalom in 2008 wrote ‘Staring into the Sun’ but after The Buddha’s reflections on the transience of life, Michel De Montaigne confronted head on the inevitability of mortality in an attempt to facilitate...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 9, 2020 | Climate Change
The Right to Hate – Chris McGlade. “You tell me what I can say, you censor what I can’t.” This poem is an anti PC tirade against the London Metropolitan ‘liberal left’ (‘down in the smoke’) who stand accused of shutting down speech, of labelling white working-class...
by sustainablesociety | Jan 8, 2020 | Climate Change
How Come Labour got that many votes? The Tories in the General election of 2020 got 14 million votes, but Corbyn’s Labour got 10 million votes? How did he do that in the face of a culture war waged for over three years against him and waged for decades over his ideas?...
by sustainablesociety | Dec 21, 2019 | Politics, Random Thoughts
21st December 2019 Dear Dom, “Arbeit Macht Frei” as my old housemaster used to say after several ales in the back bar of ‘The Nanny and Spanker’ in Windsor. “Nothing works up a thirst more than a day’s heavy toil scratching away at the blackboard”. I’m all for the...
by sustainablesociety | Dec 15, 2019 | Climate Change
Confidential 13th December 2019 Dear Donald, ‘In aqua et vagina victoriam’’ as my old housemaster used to say after several ales in the back bar of ‘The Nanny and Spanker’ in Windsor. Just thought I’d run my victory speech past you, as I so admire your erudition and...
by sustainablesociety | Dec 14, 2019 | Politics
For the sake of understanding and unity, we need to focus on who the real #greedybastards are. The core of the 0.01% who are interested only in capital accumulation at any social, political and environmental cost. Tory voters: 1. Some Conservatives are...
by sustainablesociety | Dec 12, 2019 | Random Thoughts
The Driftwood Spars, Trevaunance Cove, St. Agnes. When the wind threatens to drive into your bones, when the rain batters down upon the earth sending even the rats diving for cover, when the clouds billow upwards, darken and thunder, refuge must be sought for the...
by sustainablesociety | Dec 10, 2019 | Random Thoughts
10th December 2019 Dear Laura, Well, that was a bit, er..um. Yes well. “In delirium tremens est rectum” as my old housemaster used to say in the School’s wine cellar after being caught with his trousers down with a glossy magazine in one hand and his pulsing organ in...
by sustainablesociety | Dec 8, 2019 | Politics
This is the third of a mini series discussing why we differ about our political views. The first addressed a biological component, the second a personality traits component and the third is the creation of a life story. People construct life narratives. Dan McAdams is...
by sustainablesociety | Dec 7, 2019 | Politics
In part 1 of this short series, I dipped a toe into the three part explanation used by Haidt in his book, ‘The Righteous Mind’. However I would emphasis again both the need to contextualise this theory and that biology is not destiny. We need a bigger...
