“The meek shall inherit the Earth” is a well-known biblical phrase that has always made me wonder. It’s typically understood to convey the idea that the meek, the pliable, the unquestioning, will be ‘given’ the Earth by God. These are…
Author: onestring
Ancient Apocalypse on Netflix: Why you should definitely watch it
I’ve been enjoying the thought provoking and accessible Ancient Apocalypse series on Netflix, and so was taken aback (but not surprised) when I read the Guardian article entitled “Ancient Apocalypse is the most dangerous show on Netflix”. The title is…
Remembrance Day 2022
This Remembrance Day I watched the HBO documentary The Cold Blue, about the what it was like to fly B-17 bomber missions across the English Channel during World War II. It uses real colourized footage throughout with commentary from actual…
One is all you get
My uncle Guenter died recently; my dad’s only sibling. He’s been in Guatemala for probably the last 30 years and I haven’t seen him once in all that time. While I only saw him occasionally back in my teens and…
Capitalism: Case in point
I’ve been railing about the deleterious effects of capitalism in one form or another for some years now, slowly refining my views on it. If you want examples, see here, here, here, here, here, here, and here. My view currently…
Profit über alles
In my last article I pressed on the idea that while we rely on capitalism to value things, there are a lot of things it’s not good at valuing. I want to explore that a little more. The oft repeated…
Art is life
It may sound outrageous to say it — I used to think so — but without art we are lost. What do we live for otherwise? Our children? Love? Perhaps, but to what end, if not to together experience the…
Why community matters
The other day I was bemoaning the erosion of community in our everyday lives and placing the blame squarely on automation. Automation and the never-ending race to achieve greater efficiency seeks to remove people from as many equations as possible.…
Dark humour at the end of the world
My mother died of kidney cancer in February of this year. I was there, and boy I can tell you there was no shortage of visitors to her room in her last weeks, which was a testament to the number…
What is a real friend?
It’s taken me a long time to understand this, but I think I finally do. I used to think that a real friend is someone you simply get along with. I used to think that a real friend is someone…