Contemplating a bewildering world through empathy and understanding
Daily writing promptAre you a leader or a follower?View all responses I was once a leader...or so I thought. My corporate bosses told me so, and as a manager leading a team of project coordinators, I was expected to believe them. They told me that I was an essential cog in the wheel. I was … Continue reading A corporate lie
... I am afraid that education is conceived more in terms of indoctrination by most school officials than in terms of enlightenment. My own belief is that education must be subversive if it is to be meaningful. By this I mean that it must challenge all the things we take for granted, examine all accepted assumptions, tamper with every sacred cow, and instill a desire to question and doubt. Without this the mere instruction to memorise data is empty. The attempt to enforce conventional mediocrity on the young is criminal.
Life is for the living.Death is for the dead.Let life be like music.And death a note unsaid.-Langston Hughes Cigarettes After Sex is a pretty cool name for a band. I was blissfully unaware of their existence just over a year ago until I stumbled upon Falling in Love from their second album, Cry. I'll admit, … Continue reading Your lips, my lips, Apocalypse
Daily writing promptDo you vote in political elections?View all responses There was a time when I truly believed that voting was a right, a privilege, and a civic duty. I used to think that voting made a difference and led to change for the better. It took three decades of bitter disappointment to disabuse me … Continue reading The democratic dream: you have to be asleep to believe it
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