Tag: identity
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Poppies by Jane Weir
“Three days before Armistice Sunday”, saying farewell to her son as he leaves to go off to war, becomes the defining moment of this mother’s life. All she was feeling at that moment, all the pride and the sadness, live with her forever after, so powerfully important did that moment become due to the son’s…
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Abstractions
Stating the obvious, we live in a world striving, against all reasonableness, to be liberal. The form this liberalism seems to be taking manifests in the foolish attempt to avoid any and all offense. It should be obvious that this effort is nonsensical as there is no possible chance of not causing offense if we…
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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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Meta Matters
The project of modernity is over and the metanarratives have been shuffled out the door, which was promptly slammed shut behind them. In the postmodern world, there’s no need for those ideas which seek to impose from above dictates that limit, enclose and restrict. Now is the time of freedom, self-expression and individuality. Even those…
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Only the Lonely
Imagine walking into a town only to find that your arrival brings the population to the grand total of 1! How long would it take to have you pressing the emergency button, crying for help? This is the premise of the very first episode of Rod Serling’s almost legendary series, The Twilight Zone (1959-1964). Earl…
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