In the past few years there has been a great deal of coverage of the “culture wars”. This is nonsense because all the participants share a broadly similar culture. There is no culture war but there is a new, gaping, political divide. The political divide is due to the fall …
Read More »Cheer up, it’s just the end of days
What is in common between the riots in the USA, Chinese expansionism, a Global Pandemic, Global Warming, drought, wildfires across Siberia, global economic collapse etc. ? Is it the media? Certainly the media are hysterical and determined to bring down the government in the UK and USA but as part …
Read More »Rolling back postmodernism
Postmodernism and the “PC” movement have dominated the media for the past 35 years. This is a long run for a philosophical craze. The memes most associated with the postmodern world are that women, blacks and people with a different sexual orientation are the oppressed and that the oppression is …
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