Possible solutions to the Ukraine War must go beyond a settlement of land as the invasion was illegal, and the problems that it aimed to solve were largely created by Russia exerting influence due to its own paranoia or fear of being overrun by an encroaching NATO. Russia's fear that NATO was creeping up upon …
Conflict
Leaders define their country. Democracy is an effort to find leaders who are defined by their country. It sometimes works, not always. Dictators destroy their country. Putin is a complex beast as he pretends to be democratic but killing all those that oppose you is a sign of dictatorship in desperation. Biden is a simple …
Greed and Criminality
The intellectual blindness of our leaders, or, their choices being criminal, and the ensuing celebration of clear insanity (QAnon, for example) is a minefield that hides and then exhibits due to narcissistic obsession with the past. Fear. Perhaps. Greed and criminality both induce fear. Leadership is a concept of social agreement, a bond of trust. …
AI Chat
A philosophical chat with ChatGTP
Philosophy: Existence of Purpose
The Big Bang may not be well expressed? The difference between the dynamic expanding universe and the starting point of mass, without meaning or form or isolation, is the combination of infinite possibility with the potential of all (the finite) energy. However dramatic the circumstance: it does not bear out if intent or purpose was …
A Creative Destination
A Creative Destination is the place where all the masterworks of the hand of purpose and agency and in itself reveals an aura of great wonder. It represents the best of progress, and dignity and excitement. A Creative Destination could be a functional library that enhances the perception of its subject by constant demands each …
Crypto and the Future Economy
During a dark Crypto winter the stark truth becomes starker. Crypto coins are not all the same: some have utility. Some do not. Even if the utility is a favoured gambler status (for example the practically worthless Shiba Inu coin - currently worth $0.00000810 which is not very much. You can hold 1,000,000 of these …
The Secret of Unhappiness
The world has a problem, humans. Our minds do not function correctly setting our natural mechanisms into overdrive to protect us from things we do not see we are doing nearly all the time that convince us that we deserve to do evil or think it is being done to us. That Little Voice in …
Disaster Capitalism versus Green-Tech
The Desirability of Solar and Wind Energy Introduction: What is Disaster Capitalism? When profits rule the minds of political planners, it does not matter how far down the rabbit-hole of destruction society travels, the same dead-horse flogging is pursued until the inevitable result of ignored environmental destruction reduces available resources for those who do not …
Covid – failures of the Tory Government
Read what Michael Rosen writes about Covid. Feel the rage that the Tory Government not only mishandled the pandemic outbreak deliberately but that the expiring PM Boris Johnson trumpets his achievements. We all got very angry to discover he was lying about his parties during lockdown as his constituents were dying and not even able …