It’s a while since I posted a blog. It’s not that I haven’t written anything. I have started many times but never really had my heart in it. Who was it that said, ‘I didn’t leave poetry, poetry left me.’ I know it’s not quite the same thing but my artistic temperament does mean that if […]
Knowledge seems to accumulate as it passes down the generations. Unfortunately wisdom we take with us to the grave. I said that with such confidence and authority that many will believe it. Am I wise or knowledgeable? Well, accepting that all things are truly relative I would claim that wisdom is by far the greater […]
Well now, that’s a question. I am worried when a scientist tells me that the world is warming and it’s my fault and we are all doomed. I am also worried when another scientist claims that nuclear power is safe. I am worried when a politician tells me that he will scrap tuition fees and […]
The truth may or may not be out there. We can and will never know.
Yet again I find myself considering the human race’s capacity to inflict upon itself far more damage than all the other forces of nature put together. The devastating and heart rending earthquake and tsunami in Japan will one day, and perhaps not so very long from now, pale into insignificance compared to the self inflicted […]