I couldn’t care less about money and am certainly not motivated or interested in ‘profit’ for profit’s sake, and yet I live in a world surrounded by people who ascribe a monetary value to everything, and will not help others if there is no monetary gain attached.
Category: Human Interest
Anything that does not fit into to any of the other specific categories and is of general interest!
The Plight of the Artist
Each and every artist sought to change the bases of aesthetic judgement.
TS Elliot on Consciousness
To be conscious is not to be in time
Beware Traffic Wardens Bearing Gifts…
We have our local foxes, we are tolerant and respect other people’s privacy. This local government official did not has luminous stripes on, and was deliberately behaving in a surreptitious manner. Odd fellow.
When White Racism is Stronger Than a Black President
Why can’t a Black President simply order these racialised ‘killings’ to stop, and demand that the officers responsible be imprisoned? He might also issue apologies to the surviving families, and authorise compensation pay-outs and nation-wide memorials.
Dr Who: Was William Hartnell a Socialist?
Paul Robeson had suffered terrible persecution in the USA for his political beliefs, and I think it is significant that Hartnell had the fore-sight to place Robeson at the top of his list. Charlie Chaplin was hounded-out of the USA for his leftwing sympathies (and friendship with Ho Chi Minh). William Hartnell had no qualms associating himself with these other great progressive entertainers and revolutionaries.
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 