Challenge Everything !
This site brings together a collection of articles outlining my worldview alongside excerpts from other authors, whose insights I respect.
Our greatest triumph was to recognise individual rights, responsibilities and aspirations within a cohesive community and thus to replace the primitive survival instincts we inherited from our forebears with ethics. Our downfall is our self-deceptive failure to recognise our limitations and the inherent environmental contradictions behind empty promises for more freedom, wealth and harmony.
Sadly our civilisation has evolved into an increasingly complex organism, as open power struggles have given way to the pursuit of power through deception. Rapid technological progress combined with soaring aggregate consumption and an unprecedented human population has served not only to placate the masses, but also to empower technocrats.
Nobody holds a monopoly over wisdom, but I hope my unusually detached perspective sheds light on the burning issues that challenge our species.
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Death toll in US/UK War on Iraq: 1,099,372
Crude oil: $73.93 per barrel
Recent Additions
- 24/07/2010: Migration Myth Busting — Power Dynamics > Media, Propaganda and Free Speech
- It looks like the globalist growth lobby has been busy copying and pasting its Migration Myths all over government-sponsored Websites and many run by spurious NGOs. Hint if someone is providing information free of charge in a glossy format, it's probably not very reliable. As always first-hand fact ... (516 words) more »
- 24/05/2010: You're just a customer!! — Power Dynamics > Media, Propaganda and Free Speech
- Many of us have been so beguiled by corporate speak encroaching on everyday conversations that we have failed to notice how previous categories of people such as travellers, passengers, users, taxpayers, citizens or just plain people have morphed into customers, worthy only because of our purchasing power. Yet ... (576 words) more »
- 23/05/2010: The Keynsian Dream is Over — Power Dynamics > Media, Propaganda and Free Speech
- None of the major parties in the UK have had the courage to tell the electorate the unpalatable truth. They act as mere middle managers or public relations officers, somewhere between their masters in global banking, energy cartels and military-industrial establishment and the hundreds of thousands of minion ... (762 words) more »
- 09/05/2010: Metamorphosis of the Labour Party — Power Dynamics > Media, Propaganda and Free Speech
- How the Party of workers came to represent a bunch of non-productive consumers Little divided the main political parties in the run-up to the 2010 UK General Election. They all support the supremacy of transnational corporations, the banking cartel and the Euro-American military-industrial complex. The Liberal Democrats and Conservatives ... (1600 words) more »
- 10/02/2010: Oil Discovered Off the Falkland Islands? — Power Dynamics > Media, Propaganda and Free Speech
- Are all wars ultimately motivated by Greed? How very convenient, by mere coincidence around 60 billion barrels of oil has been discovered within 150 miles of the Falkland Islands. Before you conclude this will save our economy from the effects of peak oil, that's approximately 2.75 years of global ... (349 words) more »
- 10/01/2010: The Daily Motorist Mindset — Power Dynamics > Media, Propaganda and Free Speech
- The recent cold snap over much Western Europe with temperature lows not seen since infamous winter of 1963 has prompted Daily Mail columnists and their avid readers to deny any human effects on our eco-system. Yep, just because we are gripped by Arctic weather, does not mean 800 ... (214 words) more »
- 19/12/2009: BBC Drama Promotes Schizophrenia Myths — All in the Mind > Sociology
- TV programmes promote agendas behind of smokescreen of wishful thinking. Waterloo Road is no exception. Over the last three years Waterloo Road has sought to raise awareness about certain social issues with varying degrees of success and misinterpretation. Considering the programme's main appeal is to teenagers, it comes as ... (708 words) more »
- 20/07/2008: Reality Denial — Power Dynamics > Media, Propaganda and Free Speech
- When do we let our political judgements be swayed not by a rational analysis of the facts, but by self-interest, wishful thinking, superstition or just plain irrational prejudices? Whether rapid climate change is taking place and is caused by human activity is surely a matter of scientific analysis, ... (3048 words) more »
- 06/07/2008: Breeding Hatred — Power Dynamics > Media, Propaganda and Free Speech
- One of the biggest dilemmas for environmental realists is striking the right balance between the potential infringement of human rights required to power down to a more sustainable society on one hand, and the inevitable threat to human rights if we don't take action now. Let's call this ... (2287 words) more »
- 27/04/2008: Rethinking Autism - Assorted notes — All in the Mind > Sociology
- What is Asperger’s Anyway ?Were this personality type promoted as schizophrenia without psychosis, few parents or affected individuals would ever seek diagnosis, yet the history of the emergence of this social construct clearly demonstrates its origins in psychiatry. In little more than a decade Asperger’s has become so ... (10955 words) more »
- 20/04/2008: Peddling Misery - Letter to the Independent on Sunday — All in the Mind > Sociology
- I refer to your piece (IoS 20/04/08) about Depression Awareness Week. We all know Alastair Campbell sold his soul to the military-industrial complex by playing a key role in preparing public opinion for the Iraqi oil grab and acting as spin-doctor-in-chief for one of this country's most mendacious ... (330 words) more »
- 30/03/2008: Dental Health Scandal: Playing Politics with Genes — All in the Mind > Sociology
- Few empiricists would deny that both environmental and genetic factors determine subtle variations in the physical health, performance and behaviour of human beings. After repeatedly telling us that diet and lifestyle are largely to blame for the obesity epidemic, the popular media now inform that genetics plays a ... (2453 words) more »