Category: Radical Individualism
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Agreeing with Professor Dawkins
I have long disagreed with Prof. Richard Dawkins’ view on religion. I have no problem whatsoever with Prof. Dawkins’ expressing his personal views on any given topic. I am not even offended by such a public figure using celebrity to influence others – the Catholic Church, for one, has done no less for centuries. I…
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Who Benefits?
It seems like a great idea, doesn’t it? Wars are fought over borders, so let’s lower them. Boundaries keep us in as much as others out, so let’s break them down. Identities limit us, so let’s make them so fluid as to be meaningless. It’s a grand scheme, this freeing the world of all that…
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Abandoned Development
The COVID lockdowns have caused an increase in mental health issues in young people. Or is it social media that is responsible? Maybe it’s a lack of broccoli in their diets! There seems little doubt that young people are showing a greater propensity towards mental ill-health. This is good for those whose job it is…
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Shane is Dead! Long Live the Pale Rider!
Shane is the first movie I ever saw in a cinema (or, at least it is so in my memory). Not, I hasten to add, upon original release. I can’t remember the year, but I was quite young. We went with the school so, whatever else I might say about education in the Seventies, to…
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Thinking About Type
$2billion dollars and 2 million people annually – two numbers to consider when thinking about type because they represent the amount earned from the number of people who take the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator each year. Staggering numbers, to say the least. The numbers imply that personality typing is an established method of gauging, quantifying and…
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