I haven’t been feeling too happy recently. With a busy break, many comings and goings, perhaps a little too much alcohol and nothing like a routine I put my grumpiness in late December down to essentially that; but then I snapped and uncoiled like a watch spring. After some soul-searching I realised the real reason […]
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Civilization or civilisation n. an advanced stage or system of human social development (Concise Oxford English Dictionary) Something BETTER than civilization is awaiting us. (Daniel Quinn, Beyond Civilization) How is that possible? One must be wrong, and it must be the second one because we know that civilization is all; we know that to be […]
I need to talk to you about hope. I need to warn you about having it, for merely by having hope you could become nothing more than a bundle of ineffectual good intentions. Hope could, in fact, be the single most dangerous thing to have in the environmental struggle we need to face up to. […]