Long, long ago, before you were born, before your parents were born – before the society that you live in was born – there was a moment. Everything that is, was not. Everything that ever will will be was no more than a possibility. That moment consisted of nothing and yet it was everything. If all of your dreams, your…
i’ve been thinking about Religion
Polite conversation does not move onto religious subjects. And for good reason. It is one of those areas where people simply cannot put aside their personal perspective and debate rationally. Big call? Hardly! Wars have (and are) fought over minute differences in theology, while political decisions are inevitably flavoured by views/preferences/prejudices that are either hegemonically or overtly sourced from morals…
The absurdity of representational government
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…
The arguments for a Death Tax
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’…