Yesterday the temperature here in Perth reached 36.4°C. Vividly clear blue skies, a hot breeze and a scorching sun combined to create one of those magical ‘pre-summer’ summer days. Today, the sky is a hazy mix of light blue and wishy washy off-white, two dimensional clouds. The breeze is cool and the interplay between full sun and shadowed cloud cover…
After reading through quite a bit of material on society, money and power, there has been a gradual thought strengthening itself in my mind. It is an old issue, consigned to the bin of history for some time now but perhaps is could be revisited, and some of the early difficulties reworked? Immediate issues for farmers and ‘the family home’…
The ideals of Anarchy are basically the ideals of Humanity : To provide an environment that caters for the need for individual expression To provide an environment free from oppression by institutional power groups To allow each person to enjoy the benefits of their working activities The conundrum is that each person IS an individual. We all have differing wants…
Perhaps it would more correctly be phrased “Can we understand Utopia?” The little cynical guy on my shoulder is beginning to think that the answer is “NO”. When looking at Utopia, many people move to an Anarchist philosophy – seeing the removal of Government as being the ideal outcome. In many ways, the Anarchist model is attractive but have many…
Why is it so hard for we happy little human beans to think objectively? When confronted with something we disagree with, why do we feel an urge to think, respond and act defensively? These thought occurred to me when reading a popular science magazine (i just realised how silly ‘popular’ sounds in this context… science magazines – even glossy picture…