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“Time’s glory is to calm contending kings, To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light” — William Shakespeare. I’m increasingly finding myself being sucked into the murky world of politics, where subjects so reliably produce a kind of hysteria it’s like everything is covered in plutonium. It almost seems foolish to add my voice to… Read more
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Rose-tinted Glasses
“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions (perceptions) without concepts are blind” Immanuel Kant In ‘The Critique of Pure Reason’, Prussian German philosopher, Immanuel Kant outlined his theory of perception. He propounded that our understanding of the external world has its foundations not merely in experience, but in both experience and a priori concepts (reasoning that… Read more
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Fascism and the Weaponization of Words
Nigel Farage is a fascist. Tommy Robinson is a fascist. Donald Trump is a fascist. This term, among many others, has been shooting from lips like bullets from muskets in the front lines of an infantry. At first, such terms were supposed to fire at volleys, in regimented formation, at the command of the officers.… Read more
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