How do we find universal truth? – by shutting our eyes and looking within. I am Everyman. At the deepest level I find not a unique self, but common human experience. That deepest level can only be found in ourselves. … Continue reading
Green-house gas emissions rise slightly faster than increasing renewable energy can replace fossil fuels. Today fossil fuels account for 81% of energy consumption, while in 1988, they accounted for 79%. . But, because gross world product has increased, total energy … Continue reading
Ugliness is what cannot fit – what cannot flow in the time/space of the common. It is unhappy. What is fitting makes happiness. True function is elegance. True elegance is function. Either makes the other considered, timely, appropriate and fitting. … Continue reading
We have precious things. Whom do we show as we bring them to the light? – not the powers. We shield them from the powers. The powers have little to do with the beautiful or loved. . Such things are … Continue reading
“Tragedy is underdeveloped comedy, not fully born” says the poet Patrick Kavanagh. Yes. Yet in the best comedies, tragedy can remain as tragedy as we laugh through the tears. . Some tragedy is too dark for the rational to bear … Continue reading
I think that anxiety for the loss of environmental and human rights protections embodied in European law has provoked a loss of wider perspective in recent Green Party policy. Polemical reactions by Green party leaders to the follies of the … Continue reading
