Episodes
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Phil Rambling on about Doris Lessing's book SHIKASTA
What fascinates us about Science Fiction is its and inventiveness and ability to make us dream = and escape the attention seeking present and its certitudes. However, Science Fiction can also be stultifying and, at heart, nauseatingly conventional. Even the best Science Fiction can age fast and...
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Are you a Humane Socialist?
Modern capitalism is like smoking. We all know it’s bad for us. Modern Capitalism is like smoking or cars designed without any safety features. We know that smoking and poor safety features on cars have killed and maimed many millions, many innocents. The companies that made a profit from...
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Scientism against the UFOs
It’s a failure of the imagination. By Phil Hall The US military defense establishment has now admitted that UFOs are real. Let that sink in. Did the penny drop? Scientists can and must try to explain the phenomenon of UFOs, not simply attempt to debunk it. It has become crystal clear now that…
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Finding Equanimity Part III
Movement is everything By Dave Blazer We returned to California from Okinawa with a new kinesthetic understanding of what constituted a strong karate practice. We had seen hints of it from sensei Cain’s approach before we went, but three weeks of focused intensity had imprinted a sense of urgency...
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The virtues of good, enlightened, accountable elitism
Toxic, global, corporate capitalism must be called to heel. Ruthlessness in the search for profit affects everyone badly. There are cigarette manufacturers who kill, armaments manufacturers who kill, car manufacturers who kill, chemical companies that produce opioids, oil companies that alter the...
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The deadly poisons at the heart of reason: Malthusianism and Darwinism
Someone I know. Someone you know. The quintessence of moral failure. There are the persistent systemic failures in whole cultures and systems of values. When religion is patriarchal it cannot claim to be universal. Societies and cultures are conveniently blind to their own failings, so that the...
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Give me that Old Time Religion, it’s good enough for me – and you.
Socialists and progressive leftists need to reconnect with religion. We can't abandon spirituality to the right. Religion can transform us into moral actors. It anchors us in history. It is co-operative and collective philanthropy. Our religion, whichever that may be, gives us access to a well...
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The Mystery of Apolitical Bob Dylan
Decades of dead-souled, dead music in zombie filled arenas headlined by people like Dylan. Prospero in his cell busy indwelling, might have time to ponder the mystery of the myth that is Bob Dylan. He is concealed behind a dark blue velvet curtain embroidered in gold; Dylan with a megaphone...
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Cultural gatekeepers make for bad teachers
A bad native speaker teacher sees the British as we and the students as they, as ‘Johnny foreigner’. For many years I taught Asylum Seekers. Many of them had been in the UK for quite a few years. What upset me was to come across young people who had been in the UK for the same amount of time as…
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Humane socialism
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