My atheist friend Sam Harris tellingly said that under any circumstances you will always have bad people doing bad things; but it takes religion to get good, decent people to do despicable things. While he was speaking mostly about savage things like clitorodectomy and suicide bombers, really the list is virtually endless. Someone immersed in … More The Trump Cult
There are some unthinkable things – not that they are not possible, but that people would not want to think about them. Two such examples are: 1 Atomic disaster in the middle east. 2 Russian troops on US soil. The capacity of the seer is to transcend time lines and peak at possibilities. While many … More Seers and Sayers
It could be argued that the Emperor’s nakedness was obvious to everyone in the realm from day 1 of the Trump administration. The thing to be examined then is the complicity of the crowd that facilitates the denigration of the throne and all institutionally embodied in it, by such manifest lewdness. Of course, we are … More Stones and Serpents
After what appeared a fiasco this past Sunday and a review of Dr. Strange, a sci-fi which explores the concepts of time and eternity and the purpose of man in both, my reflections have returned to the theme of time and how we function in it. In Jamaica we have a special term for being … More On time
James spoke about the concept of ‘pure religion’ . There is also, whether one wants to believe in it or not, pure politics. Obviously, whenever human power is concentrated, and hidden from public view, there will be money and sex excesses. Once one has access to power, there is the discovery of the raw truth … More Pay attention
The key word in law and order is ORDER. And the key question is “Whose order” should our law and ordinances maintain? The US police force may or may not have as colorful a history as our JCF whose genesis is linked historically to the suppression of the Morant Bay Insurrection, but in terms of … More Utopianism or Law and order?
Utopianism and pragmatism are poles apart, and ever conscious of the specter of being dismissed as utopian, I have been very encouraged in the last ten years of seeing aspects of the vision I hold of the future finding a place of establishment within the culture, even if marginally so. It demonstrates that whatever we … More Utopianism or a brave new future?
Pat Robertson says that Floyd’s killer should be charged with first degree murder and his three accomplices thrown into jail. He said if it was up to him, Chauvin (what a prophetic name), the white culprit would be quickly thrown into jail, always heavily populated with black men, so that they should ‘deal with him … More Awake!
From the vantage point of the establishment, the nationwide protests engulfing America can be the beginning of the end. The cry on Fox news is stop the hooligans now! From the standpoint of the uprising, this can be the beginning of change. A dispassionate view of history reveals that almost every major government and religion … More From Desegregation to Dis-integration
The manipulation of public sentiment and opinion (in that order) in the pursuit of power is almost a definition of our real politik and is as old a practice as human civilization. So, while mindful of new lows in artful execution, yes sparked by the self acclaimed and publicly confirmed (by followers and foes alike) … More More about the choice
