March 29, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
The goal is Empire I have written many times about Little Atrocities. Hannah Arendt coined the term, the banality of evil. When evil becomes normalised. Like Hannah, I have been fascinated by the journey to evil. It doesn’t happen in one fell swoop; evil happens one...
March 21, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Bucky Fuller-Critical Path, Current Affairs
unEmpire-like I am reading one of the most important books I have read about the whole state of the world. The Nutmeg Curse by Amitav Ghosh. As Naomi Klein says about this book. Do not think you know what it is about. In Critical Path, Buckminster Fuller discusses how...
January 4, 2024 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs, Personal Development
Why is this the hot topic of the day And who is it serving. How easily we fall into the drama trap, propagated by fourth rate media and stirred by the narcissists, monopolists, and power elite. Distracting subjects like who gets to use a bathroom, boats and borders...
December 21, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
When is one body too many? People all over the world are losing their jobs because they cry out for a ceasefire, they ask for the genocide in Palestine to end. Yesterday an Australian journalist from the ABC – our independent public broadcaster – was...
November 16, 2023 | Beauty of Beginnings, Current Affairs
The ghost of the dead There was something inside me that felt a trip to Japan without a trip to Hiroshima would have been disrespectful. As we sat in the cable car to the top of Mt Misen on Miyajima Island there were skeletons of trees that had died from acid rain....