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In the world of script writing and media production generally there is a literary crisis in the making regarding UK Black women and the UK needs your help. Black women are being seriously and subtly deformed in the public image. Lets start with proximate causes. In the Uk there has been a lost generation. They do not generally have any historical memory of the previous generations that struggled for them. Most of them look on the ‘Black Radicals’ as…
Wale Edun is in part a mere parrot for the World Bank and does not even understand what he is parroting. But worse yet, he is an agent for a national financial oligarchy that wants Nigeria to be destroyed because they will profit from its destruction. HE MUST GO! Wale Edun is quoted as saying: ‘Emphasis on Service Sector In addition, Edun said the government is laying emphasis on the service sector to provide employment opportunities for young…
There is no way to say this politely but that is what Wale Edun is doing – driving Nigeria to destruction. There are three root causes to Nigeria’s destruction. There is of course one instance of the Roman Emperorship being bought outright by a bidder, Didius Julianus, whose lack of appropriate skill and shows of cowardice led to his being assassinated a few months later. (Leigh-Howarth 2022) Great leaders previously could eschew wealth given they had great power. Now…
President Xi announced the greatest earthquake for the 21st Century so far. It is possible to misunderstand it which is why I will explain it further. All recent great economic transformations have been based on market access. First was Japan’s access to the US market. During the 1980’s, when talk was of Japan becoming No.1, the US extended market access to ASEAN countries as a way to cut off Japan at the knees. Many of these Asian tigers had…
There is a fundamental misunderstanding of the Ukraine war among Western commentators because there is failure to understand ‘endless war’. Over and over again, I hear dissident observers all over Europe explaining how absurd and irrational European policy is. From senior to junior commentators, this is repeated ad nauseam. They do not stop to consider that this is absurd. A policy that is sustained cannot be ‘irrational’. It merely means that the true policy itself is misunderstood. Even the…
Many people in England have a self image in respect of their behaviour that does not meet with reality because they never get a reflection back. For most of them, they can define their relationship with ‘others’ in society. ‘Living on the Hill’ is a series aimed at putting up a mirror of sorts. Did I say unbiased mirror? No! Hopefully, it will be full of my own quirks and the devil’s humour. But a mirror nonetheless. In this…
Here the two themes of world changing ideas (philosophy and history) come together in a surprising manner. There is an idea that it is rational to pursue one’s self interest which became a cornerstone in a culture war. It is a strange fact that what was originally almost mystical – ‘light of reason’ – has become a matter of calculation. A coldly rational man is culturally today a person who subjects everything to calculation. In Adam Smith it is…
Philosophy There is a unique role that the word ‘rationality’ plays in Western culture. According to the standard trope rationality is a mystical quality. It has the following virtues; Ancient Greek philosophy, it is claimed, was the birth of the first attempt to understand the world using rationality. One author writes: “Ancient Greek philosophy brought Logos to fore and defined it as the crucial problem and the postulate of the human. We translate the Greek term Logos in English…
Generally speaking I would resist discussing emergent ideas until they were more thoroughly worked out. This case is a little different. These ideas are not recent but over 50 years old. When I first had them 50 years ago and discussed them I was met with ‘ that is quite interesting … but beyond my area of speciality.’ In my eyes these ideas would upturn all contemporary history on the one hand and all contemporary philosophy on the other….
The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of… We know the truth not only by the reason, but by the heart’ Blaise Pascal ‘Pensee’ There are aspects of life that as a writer I feel need sharing. Our dominant culture often makes communication difficult because it embeds assumptions that are the devil to root out. That is the basis of my series ‘Life on the Hill’. I take every day events but hope to shine a light…