The Season for Living
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There is a happiness that only comes from keeping menace at bay. It is what has made Christmas so joyous – a festival of warmth and light reclaimed from the frost... Read more.
Death Is to Become the Lifestyle of Choice
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If the world of opportunity and its wholesale suppression of death overstimulated with its production line of false purposes, then the current wholesale promotion... Read more.
Do Not Admit Their Labels
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Do not admit their labels, which are only a portal to helplessness. Do not adopt their strategies, which are only furtherance of dysfunction. Do not enter upon the... Read more.
Herd or Hero, Body or ‘Soul’
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Our identity is such a merely theoretical construct that it is subject to endless reengineering and constant updating. Descartes got it upside-down. Bodies are obstinate... Read more.
The Confiscation of Reality
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Welcome to the age of abstraction, when lived experience is irrelevant and theoretical constructions carry the day – when what is deemed right and true is unmoored... Read more.
Technocrats Cut Ireland at the Knees
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For many years now, Ireland has been subject to a particularly intense cultural offensive. Why this should be so is an open question. It may be that Ireland is –... Read more.
Beware the Autism-Friendly City
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Let us not forget that as we inched forwards like automata, self-conscious and humiliated, we gradually ceased to make eye contact with our fellows, engaged in little... Read more.
Safe, Smart, Special
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The effect of this conflation of safety and health, and of the attendant mass submission to technical solutions to identified health threats, is that our well-being... Read more.
Conviviality: The Alternative to the Administrative State
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Images from Canada, of tables quaking under the weight of home-cooked food, of people in sub-zero temperatures lining the roadsides and bridges, of tweeted offers... Read more.