This recently popped up in my you tube feeder which gave me some food for thought: Naval Ravikat quoting Nassim Nicholas Taleb (or words to the effect): (starting from 4:40 in the above video) ‘With my family I’m a communist.…
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Ethics Don’t Scale. Naval Ravikat Comments about Socialism
Tagged with: Communism, Jordan Peterson, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Naval Ravikat, Socialism
Posted in politics
Posted in politics
Glad Wrap and other ‘Broken Shoelace’ Events
So here I am unwrapping the dreaded ‘glad-wrap’ plastic to seal over a plate of food that I will perhaps reheat the next day….and I’m in kind of a hurry. When you are cooking for just one, you’re always in…
Tagged with: Charles Bukowski, cooking, glad wrap, humour, poem, The Shoelace
Posted in Reading, Reflections
Posted in Reading, Reflections
Blue Skies Have Returned to Bogotá – 27th of June 2019
For the first time in a long while, Bogotá (the capital of Colombia) has had one whole day of radiant blue skies. This year, the typically wet season months in Bogota – April and May extended their melancholic deluge into…
More on Fyodor Dostoevsky’s Writing
Fyodor Pavlovich (FP): ‘…I’d put an end to that little monastery of yours. Take all this mysticism and abolish it at once all over the Russian land, and finally bring all the fools to reason. And think how much silver,…
Tagged with: Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jordan Peterson, The Brothers Karamazov
Posted in Reading, Reflections
Posted in Reading, Reflections
Rocketman- Elton Hercules John!
As I alluded to in a recent post there is a plethora of music homage movies set for release in 2019, Rocketman is one such feature which centers on the musical-life of Elton John. This review does contain spoilers so…
Tagged with: bernie taupin, Elton John, Rocketman, taron egerton, your song
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Bridge of Spies (2015) – Steven Spielberg (Friday’s Finest)
Originally posted on Observation Blogger:
Bridge of Spies is a highly engaging political-adventure based on a true story about a highly covert Spy swap deal between the CIA and KGB during the cold war. Lawyer James Donovan played by Tom…
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Is Ben Shapiro’s Political Career over for Good After The BBC interview?
Something that has been trending of late on social media is Ben Shapiro’s controversial interview with BBC journalist Andrew Neil where Shapiro cut short the TV debate. The interview has sparked the question in many leftist circles: Is this the…
Tagged with: Andrew Neil, BBC, BBC Interview, ben Shapiro, IDW, Intellectual Dark Web
Posted in politics, Reflections
Posted in politics, Reflections
The Happy Prince – Oscar Wilde (adapted and directed by Orson Welles)
When I was a child, I used to play this record incessantly. (Part 1 & 2 of the audio below). Today, as a 45 year old man, it still brings a tear to my eye! It remains the most beautiful…
Tagged with: bing crosby, Citizen kane, orson welles, oscar wilde, the happy prince
Posted in Reading, Reflections
Posted in Reading, Reflections
‘The Future of War Video’ and Political Grace (The Art of Disagreeing Well)
I think anyone who uses social media needs to see this video especially right up until the end because in a sense the future of war most definitely will involve each one of us. If you haven’t got time to…
Tagged with: Crime and Punishment, Destin Sandler, future of war, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jordan Peterson, Political Grace
Posted in politics, Reading
Posted in politics, Reading
Music Homage Films Abound in 2019 (Beatles, Springsteen, Elton John & Bob Dylan)
After the big box-office smash hit Bohemian Rhapsody, film studios must have been wiping the dust off dozens of musical homage scripts faster than they could sing: ‘We will, we will rock you!’. Yesterday and Blinded By The LightIn similar…
Tagged with: beatles, Blinded By the Light, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Elton John, Film, IMDB, Martin Scorsese, music, Rocketman, Rolling Thunder Revue, Yesterday
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
Posted in Movies and TV, Music
