It was not until my introduction to university-level Humanity courses that I discovered a joy for History and Literature: Man The Social Animal. The ready availability of the World Wide Web has made it easy to pursue in-depth analysis of events and issues around the globe. The answers to questions were all around. As I… Continue reading [Narratives and Chronicles]
Category: Public
Millennials Will Miss Boomers
https://www.salon.com/2019/05/12/why-millennials-will-miss-boomers-when-theyre-gone/ Why millennials will miss Boomers when they’re goneMillennials mock Boomers as out-of-touch reactionaries. But we have lost a way of thinking they pioneeredKeith A. SpencerMay 12, 2019 11:30PM (UTC) It has become en-vogue among millennials to mock the Baby Boomer generation as being out-of-touch, reactionary, and complicit in the destrcution of the planet. The… Continue reading Millennials Will Miss Boomers
[Expectations of Privacy]
The Expectations of Personal Privacy In An Era of Digital Information Networks 13/06/2019 @ 07:52Am EST I recently read a couple of articles on two different subjects that can be tied to each other through an underlaying focus: the impact of current digital technologies and their contributions to the erosion of personal privacy. The first… Continue reading [Expectations of Privacy]
[Food & Travel]
Yes. I’m a carnivore. Get over it – I have. I’m not in the habit of photographing and displaying images of what I eat (as so many individuals these days do). If you are what you eat, then so be it. But I do believe that if you, seriously, would like to understand a culture… Continue reading [Food & Travel]
[Into The Future]
Relax: self-driving cars won’t kill you (and they’re not really self-driving, yet) The Tesla Autopilot crash fatality in May points to how safe, not unsafe, self-driving cars can be in the future, and how driver assistance features today are at preventing crashes by warning or intervening. The very real danger is that knuckleheads today are… Continue reading [Into The Future]
[A Turn For The Worse?]
Surely, it can’t be just me who is increasing getting desensitised (I’d say alarmed but think we’re past that point of ‘concern‘) to the constant flow of news and images – primarily about death and destruction, near and far. At home and abroad. Natural and man-made or human inspired. If your ‘danger radar’ is just… Continue reading [A Turn For The Worse?]
The Age of The Despots
Welcome to the age of the despotEvery tyrant has now learned the Syrian lesson: you can bomb your cities and kill with impunity. How the West failed so horribly. Terry Glavin December 19, 2016 “Aleppo is now a synonym for hell,” is the way outgoing UN Secretary – General Ban Ki – moon described the… Continue reading The Age of The Despots
What’s Being Done With Your Data?
According to the article posted by Mark Gollom [CBC News] – What’s being done with your data: Experts ask, shouldn’t someone get this under control? – Facebook, Google and Amazon have a complete monopoly on records of what interests you. “Revelations that U.K.-based Cambridge Analytica apparently used data from more than 50 million Facebook accounts… Continue reading What’s Being Done With Your Data?
[When Did Clowns Become Scary?]
By Mark Kennedy, THE ASSOCIATED PRESSPublished: March 25, 2018Updated: March 25, 2018 12:12 AM EDT NEW YORK — His nose was round and bright red, his face as white as a sheet. His mouth was surrounded by an exaggerated smear of red makeup and his arched eyebrows hung ridiculously high on his forehead. Such was… Continue reading [When Did Clowns Become Scary?]
[Rant on …] Identity Politics
All Blacks Are Not Africans; Just as All West-Indians Are Not Black In Canada, the 1960s Royal Commission on Bilingualism and Biculturalism and the Canadian Multiculturalism Act of 1988 served as the political touchstone of multiculturalism. Since then, Canadians (especially its political class) apparently like to tout that the country is multicultural; and this, multiculturalism (as… Continue reading [Rant on …] Identity Politics