Living by Your Values
Some days it feel like conservatives simultaneously claim ownership over the idea of “values” and “morals” while criticising “the left” as overly emotional. Equally a lot of alleged progressives have…
Category: Not-Quite-Philosophy
Activism against Activists
Many great thinkers and doers of modern history have labelled themselves activists, many have not and there have been plenty who called the title for all the wrong reasons. There…
What do you want to do?
People ask me “what do you want to do?” and my outside freezes while my insides start screaming “I don’t know.” I don’t know. But I want to know. As…
Fresh Starts in the January Blues
Fresh starts can be a birth; messy, painful and confusing but without them life would not get anywhere. And aren’t we just obsessed with fresh starts this time of year?…
The Benefits and Damages of Hibernation
Blinkingly, I stick my head outside my cave. The sunlight seems foreign to me now. It stings but in a strangely comforting way, like antiseptic on a grazed knee. Words…
The World Ends Every Year
So with New Years 2012, the question is if the Mayan calendar thing is true and we only have a few days left, what do we want to do with it?…
