In his 1962 short story “2BR02B” (pronounced, to be or not to be), Kurt Vonnegut imagines that, in response to overpopulation, the US government might create a “Bureau of Termination,”...

I can’t tell you the number of times every day I hear from clients in my practice, “All I want is to be happy.” And they don’t know why...

On Saturday 21st September, my neighbour collapsed and died while walking the hills of Northumberland. The coroner’s report confirmed only that she had had a heart-attack. She was fifty-one...

“I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything anymore, teach me others. Or let me be silent.” Samuel Becket, Endgame Before he went to Rockaway Beach...

I was first introduced to the brilliance of Ralph Waldo Emerson when studying the principles of Science of Mind over 20 years ago. His essay “Self Reliance” written in 1841...

Along the high street where I live, there is an advertisement on the side of one of the bus shelters. It features a woman, heavy-set and pictured from behind....

Edward Curtin “The most incomprehensible talk comes from people who have no other use for language than to make themselves understood.” Karl Kraus, Half-Truths & One-and-a-Half Truths Things, possessions, life...

Charles Chevalier To what extent was Enlightenment one of human emancipation? As Hampson (1968) describes the period “an embarrassment of wealth for the historian and the danger of being...

Todd Hayen “Sheep, I don’t know what’s wrong with sheep these days.” (sung to the tune of Kids! from the musical Bye Bye Birdie). So what else is new?...

Todd Hayen OK, so maybe (maybe) not so dramatic as that, but come on people, alright already, you’re wrong, admit it and start what you need to do to...

Edward Curtin Neurosis to a greater or lesser degree is the norm in western industrialized societies. Drawing on this fact is the key to effective propaganda. It is well...

Todd Hayen About three years ago, before this Covid swill was poured down our throats, my wife pointed out an article in the Toronto Star about a proposal to...

Ryan Matters There is a willingness in this world for people to adopt new things because they are told to do so. There is also a willingness for people...

Todd Hayen Oc·cult (adjective) [ ə’kʌlt ] 1. supernatural or magic, 2. not understandable, 3. secret, 4. hidden, 5. difficult to see. All five of these definitions could describe...

Todd Hayen One thing this global awakening (at least an awakening for me and my fellow shrews) has made me realize is that we all have been living in...

Todd Hayen I just got off zooming today with a lawyer friend of mine. He seems to be a nice guy but rather “play it by the book” (as...

Edward Curtin “Begin then with a fracture, a cesura, a rent; opening a crack in this fallen world, a shaft of light.” Norman O. Brown, Love’s Body Being sick for...

Dustin Broadbery Part 1: Look a Gift Horse in the Mouth As the digital revolution was underway in the mid-nineties, research departments at the CIA and NSA were developing...

Julien Charles The Frankfurt School predecessor and Marxist author Walter Benjamin was fascinated by the curious transformations of capitalism from the mid-to-late 1800s, when Marx wrote, to the early...

Julien Charles “The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants, and it provides the further advantage of giving the servants of tyranny a...