The classic vision of how men got their violence comes from 2001 A Space Odyssey, where Moonwatcher, whose community successfully fought off rivals at a watering hole, throws a bone into the sky as celebration and that results in one of cinema’s most famous match cuts. The bone represents violence and attempts to explain that…
Men have to impose ‘real’ solutions. Its why there’s war, there’s genocide, there’s economics, there’s rape there’s domestic violence etc. Its curious because interestingly its also often been men who have muscled in with the notion that nothing is real, nothing exists and so on – this being all part of science and thought such…
Today’s news that Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in the UK, has received a posthumous pardon, is of great interest. At first glance it looks like a gross miscarriage of justice has been reversed. However its not as simple as that. Basically the pardon means the sentencing for the murder of her…
There has been a need to write about men quite urgently especially in the case of a number of recent cases – not forgetting certain conflicts too. The sheer scale and extent of such happenings do not merely indicate there is a level of what can be considered a meagre intellect. Its far more complex…
“All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” The preceding quote was penned by Leo Tolstoy and gained prominence in Anna Karenina (1877). In some quarters this is related to what’s known as the Anna Karenina principle. That denotes a means of determining whether a marriage is even going…
I’m getting married in the morning.Ding, dong the bells are gonna chime.Pull out the stopper, let’s ’ave a whopper,But get me to the church on time. Even better is how the above ought to go…. I’m getting born in the morning.Ding, dong the bells are gonna chime.Pull out the umbilical, let’s ’ave a whopper,But get…
Neil de Grasse Tyson runs a regular series called Star Talk along with occasional and special guests. His regular co host is Chuck Nice and Star Talk is a great programme often involving scientific fact, scientific debate and scientific curiosity. Almost every episode has a good sprinkling of humour, necessary because its a way of…
In our modern world, intelligent individuals regularly make baffling decisions. These could be any number of professionals whose contradictions raise concerns. Why such poor decisions? Immanuel Kant identified this trait centuries ago, calling it ‘immaturity’ – the refusal to use one’s own understandings without guidance from another. Kant says society educates and meshes people together in…
One might think this post about what entails to be elements of a belief system is naff, but its certainly factual even if the very tangibility that is presented can be easily challenged. There are elements which can be paralleled in terms of how the hearing construct certain scenarios. This was also a time when…
What if the sentences in your head, the choices you make, even the tone of your speech, are not really you at all, but the output of something living inside your mind? And in fact what one says or speaks is essentially not stuff of their own making. Is this why humans are basically stupid…