Category: critical analysis

originally published 21st September 2023 “Consumer capitalism is a theoretical economic and social political condition in which consumer demand is manipulated in a deliberate and coordinated way on a very large scale through mass-marketing techniques, to the advantage of sellers.” (Wikipedia) To the casual and disinterested bystander, the recent hysteria over Russell Brand sits on…

originally posted 14th January 2024 Narratives don’t give us reality or truth but we live by narratives because they give us meaning. And meaning, the way we interpret sequences of events, is more important to us than truth. It’s in this way that history, our own sense of our lives and who we are and…

It’s interesting that when the existence of Israel, the Jewish nation, is once again threatened by so many delightful human beings, the opportunity for anti-semitism in the U.K. and, of course, elsewhere, is aired so passionately, so disingenuously, not just by anti-Semitic journalists and keyboard warriors, but media institutions like the BBC.  It’s also interesting…

We need to live more like birds and less like dogs. Most birds are social animals, like dogs, but with a key difference, being that, unlike many mammalian species, avians are generally free of group hierarchy.  Of course, this may only be a general rule for birds that can fly. After all, chickens, for example,…