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- A New Course on Shakespeare
- Life Lessons from the Compost Heap
- Hookers and blow and state control
- Genius and Population
- Introducing Existential Hermeneutics
- The Ever-Present Discontent
- Out for a few weeks
- Macbeth as Dasein
- Civilisation, nature, and wilderness
- No post this week
- The Headless Chickens of History
- Art vs Ideology
- Shakespeare’s Henry IV: In Praise of Dishonour
- Shakespeare’s Henry IV: Eros and Thanatos
- Shakespeare’s Henry IV: Propaganda and Narrative
- Shakespeare’s Henry IV: The Grammar of Transformation
- Shakespeare’s Henry IV: Story as Transformation
- Stories and Transformations: Part 5
- Shakespeare: The Journey into the Sacred now available
- Stories and Transformations: Part 4
- Stories and Transformations: Part 3
- Stories and Transformations: Part 2
- Stories and Transformations: Part 1
- On Shakespeare
- The Great Imitator
- Hiatus extended and another invitation
- What really is a story?
- Are We Learing Yet?
- A New Year’s Invitation
- Wagner’s Parsifal: A New Kind of Empathy
- Zero Sum Bureaucracy
- Patrick White’s “The Solid Mandala”
- Taking Educated People Seriously
- Sacred Capitalism
- Capitalism and Democracy
- On Culture
- Give us this day our daily bread
- Super-duper Super
- The Need for Meaning
- Robert Menzies’ Education System
- Could “AI” end the post-industrial economy?
- The Good People
- Monetising Everything
- Three More Dogmas
- The Dogma of the Oppressed
- Faith, hope, and charity
- The New Testament as Orphan Story: Part 2
- The New Testament as Orphan Story: Part 1
- The Worst Person in the World
- The Origins of Feminism: Part 2
- The Origins of Feminism: Part 1
- The Initiation of Nietzsche – now available
- The Wowserocracy
- Five Years
- The Initiation of Nietzsche: Part 4
- The Initiation of Nietzsche: Part 3
- The Initiation of Nietzsche: Part 2
- The Initiation of Nietzsche: Part 1
- The Terminator Movies: An Archetypal Analysis Part 1
- The Trouble of Interpretation
- Thoughts on the Australian (and Canadian) election
- In Bruges
- The Archetypology of Adolescence Part 5
- The Archetypology of Adolescence Part 4
- The Archetypology of Adolescence Part 3
- The Archetypology of Adolescence Part 2
- The Archetypology of Adolescence Part 1
- Archetypology, Volume 1 Now Available
- Science, Politics, and Religion: An Archetypology Perspective – Part 4
- Science, Politics, and Religion: An Archetypology Perspective – Part 3
- Science, Politics, and Religion: An Archetypology Perspective – Part 2
- The Interminable Land War
- Science, Politics, and Religion: An Archetypology Perspective – Part 1
- New Book Cover
- USAIDS
- Approaching Herd Immunity?
- One More Fix
- Oedipus at Colonus
- The WEMP
- Once more on Zombification
- Governed by Zombies
- Introducing Archetypology
- A Xmas Gift
- The Power of Archetypes: Raygun Edition
- The Games People Play
- Australia’s “let them eat cake” moment?
- Children of anti-nature
- What happens when your government’s a junkie?
- ChatWTF
- It’s the vegetables, stupid
- The American Comedy Rolls On
- Neoliberalism Must Die
- On hiatus (sort of)
- Midwife’s Advice
- The Uninvited Guest
- Trump and Luther: Unlikely Bedfellows
- The Key
- The Hitler Complex strikes again
- The Archetypal Human
- An Update
Hi Simon, Ah, say no more! 🙂 One of the craziest things our civilisation does is that flow of minerals.…
Chris – well, most gardens tend to have one more large primates around that produce a nitrogen-rich liquid on a…
Hi Simon, Exactly! Every plant has it’s own requirements in relation to their preferred soil mineral mix. It’s complicated and…
Sandra – hah! Don’t get me started on spacing. I just had to move a tree I’d planted too close…
Hi Simon, There are so many lessons to learn about gardening! I sometimes feel that basic knowledge about growing food…
Chris – well, there’s another subject that turns out to be complicated. Which plants actually need lots of nitrogen? Apart…
Hi Simon, Total respect for figuring this situation out by pure observation alone. Well done! 🙂 I on the other…
Sandra – consider me sceptical. Over the past few decades the state has legalised all kinds of things that used…
Hi Simon, I don’t really understand why society holds these players up as role models. They are good at playing…
Chris – true, although it’s not an exact science. Socrates was put to death, after all. Galileo was all but…
Hi Simon, An interesting topic. Agreed, my perspective is also that civilisations in decline will tend towards homogenisation of thought…
Hey Roland – I was thinking about it more in terms of a graph. The number of nodes (people) grows…
Hey mate, The theory of a linear relationship between population size and genius has been around for a while. I…
Agree. But I would add the important caveat that I made in the post. We can also discuss stories in…
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Chris – the local council in my area recently rolled out green bins to everybody. So, at least food and…