Socrates was an old soldier, who fought for Athens well into his 40’s. Alcibiades was instrumental in his downfall, in many ways, as it was the...
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Career Politicians Killing Democracy
Australia is one of the most secretive democracies in the Western world, according to those in the know. International experts have deemed our...
Careerism: Self-Interest’s Acceptable Public Face
Western democracies spruik their hopefully meritocratic qualities. The belief that through hard work and talent you can reach the upper echelons of...
The ‘Me’ Filter: Perceiving Life Self-Obsessively
We all do it and it is happening more often most of the time. The ‘Me’ filter: Perceiving life self-obsessively. Some religious folk point to the...
What Is Freedom?
Freedom is a word with a lot of baggage in America. Think about free speech! The land of the free. The free market. Kris Kristofferson, who died...
Another Lazy Thinking Way Of Operating
There is no left or right, not really, not in political terms. There are many shades of thought and philosophies existing and interacting around the...
Greed Gave Us The GFC & We Have Been Paying Ever Since
The Global Financial Crisis (GFC) grew out of the wage suppressing impacts of neoliberalism and its response to the lack of domestic economic...
How The Black Death Shaped Humanity
I have been reading some interesting stuff about how the Black Death shaped humanity. Plague has been with humankind at least 5, 000 years and has...
Albanese Government Need To Lift Their Game
Let me make one thing clear at the outset of this post, the ALP federal government may be lukewarm in my opinion but the Opposition is no...
Is Anglo Racism The Worst Kind?
By this I mean the racism expressed by some members of the British ethnic identity toward those they define as ‘not truly of their kind’. The Anglo...