May 21, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The twins of Empire are in a death spiral Apparently, the world thinks it is acceptable to board boats in International Waters and take prisoners. The people whose only wrong is the desire to deliver aid to people who are being deliberately starved of aid. The old...
May 19, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Times of Anomie We are there. Leaders can and do get away with crime, corruption, rape, pedophilia, and lying far more than telling the truth. They deliberately stoke hate through fear, against the mostly innocent other, all to distract from the actions they take to...
May 18, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
We are all minorities We want to stop something from happening. Let’s say we want to stop discrimination and racism. You do not do this by being racist or discriminating. Violence begets violence. Ethnonationalism begets ethnonationalism. You cannot end...
May 4, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Syntropic Enterprise
There is no going back The yearning for some past lifestyle. The trad wife. The land before colonisation. The way it was. It is, at every single level, impossible. To go back violates the laws of physics and maths. For a start, you are not the same person you were...
April 29, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
Viva la resistance The designation “terrorist” is a political act, not a legal classification Nelson Mandela was designated a terrorist; his party, the ANC, was considered a terrorist organisation for years by my country and many others. He went on to win the Nobel...
April 27, 2026 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Stewardship, Leadership, Entrepreneurs
On propaganda The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. This might well be the test. The moment we assign a group of people as subhuman, we are under the spell of propaganda. The propaganda might have...
