How many lawyers does it take to craft an opinion; how many PR execs does it take to put out a press release? Seemingly not enough given the calibre of what is being produced.
The more one reads about the history of colonialism the more one sees certain powerful individuals corrupted by their positions of privilege and their lack of empathy for diverse peoples.
Those that stood up to them were pummelled in any fashion. It continues today. Those people have not gone away. They are far from the truth and blatantly lie.
Artificial intelligence vs authentic or real intelligence? Given some of the international stories these days maybe the worry should be the need for just plain intelligence.
If someone were to ask me what my current interests were I would have to condense it to one - literature. What writing does to your mind is incredible. How one's imagination can create those vivid pictures that are painted with the written word. The sentences are always painting. The better writing creates such an intricate world. Reading gives us the ability to create but it comes with effort.
Art is the need to create; but in its essence..it is impatient of working with lame or tied hands. R. W. Emerson, Essays 1841
Love it when you start reading a book and run across word like ‘ghosteen’, lugubrious’, and ‘judder’. Nothing better than the new generation of Irish writers.
Rain again but then it is green and growing.
The Globe & Mail has an article this morning on the U of T. Bias is bias.
Beautiful Spsnish Banks this afternoonn at low tide.
You can never push for change when so many fear the loss of their precious “security”. Being placed in the existence of weakness will initiate somethingng but it will be limited.
Two of Helsinki’s most visited cathedrals will begin to charge an entrance fee beginning next month. Helsinki’s Lutheran Cathedral, Suomenlinna Church, and St. John’s Church will charge between €5 to €8 as an entry fee for visitors. The cathedrals typically get hundreds of thousands of visitors every summer.
Want to read: The Big Green Tent by Ludmila Ulitskaya 📚
Had not realized there are 35 seasons of The Simpsons.
The robins and hummingbirds are back.
Should be a different day. Dentist this morning and library meeting this afternoon with the possibility of snow, this late in the year?
The Dandy Warhols have some new music out soon. The 3 pre releases are good, sort of oldish with the addition of some newer layers of sound.
Quickest way to speed up time is to spend it on socisl media.
Whenever decision making occurs far from the physical work, where the bonds of humanity are weakened not only by social distance but by geographical distance as well; where the effects of one’s decisions are not directly observed or felt & the balance sheet tells the only tale they hear. SR Bown
Keep forgetting the usefulness of this platform. Simple, easy, and useful. Happy New Year!
Just got from the library. Looks like a book you just can’t stop reading.
Received some micro blog stickers from @jean What a wonderful surprise! Thx.
“The cultural critic Raymond Williams argued that liberal democracy suffered from a peculiar blind spot that valued “educated and participatory democracy” at the national constitutional level while rarely translating that into institutional norms and templates. The 20th century saw a wave of countries embracing democracy as their preferred political model. And yet the system in which most people spend the majority of their time—the world of work—is run according to a different set of rules.”
Wishing financial institutions would spend less money on marketing and more on making their product work well. Trying to pay a bill online and the banking system must be down. Hope it comes back up before the bill is due in a few days.
“For in a way beset with those that contend on one side for too great liberty, and on the other side for too much authority, ’t is hard to pass between the points of both unwounded” Thomas Hobbes
This simple statement from Hobbes discloses something of the dilemma we now live in, 400 years later. Liberty, and the other side, authority, and those of us that pass between somewhat wounded.
Reading John Gray’s “The New Leviathan”. Be warned that you will start digging into Hobbes.
Merry Christmas to everyone. Hope it is a day of peace, rest and reflection.