*So a wa yu waa mi kaal dem den? Ruos bredfruut? Professor Mattias Desmet, Professor of Psychology at the University of Ghent in Belgium, seems to be giving voice to the dull agony I feel this morning as I find myself re-immersed in the atmosphere of Kingston, which for me, has always represented a sphere … More The problem *Pseudo-Jamaicans have with Black Identity
How to dismantle a democracy: For billionaires only. It might not be a bestseller, but it would not need to be. The fact is, the power of the people is great when it works for you, but people are highly unreliable. Even Jesus Christ got a taste of it. The crowd that crowns you today … More Petrified, Hypnotized, Zombified, Neutralized.
A Cadastral mind is defined by Google’s AI overview as “a structured, analytical, and organized way of thinking that mimics a cadastre—the comprehensive, public, and detailed recording system of land ownership, boundaries, and value.” {For a biblical reflection of boundaries, see chapt 2 [pg 6] of Running over) I remember the first time I heard the … More Freakuency
The news yesterday morning highlighted a fairly common scene. The PNP held a press conference speaking specifically to the emerging incidents of leptospirosis and the health threat posed to the nation in the aftermath of Melissa. At the podium was Dr Alfred Dawes, PNP spokesperson on health and in the background were party dignitaries headed … More Systems of predation / Systems of service
Up to this point, scarcity of resources has served the human species extra-ordinarily well. It has been the source of all wars, the foundation of our economies, the impetus for all adventure, discovery and innovation. Although there is no substantial proof that any such condition actually exists in Nature* ( except when viewed through the … More The End is Near: Can we learn to cope with super-abundance?
The construction of the past is as much an effort of imagination as of memory, although one could argue that memory is more involved with the construction of the past and imagination with the construction of the future; however the reverse position is not untenable. Imaginations of the future involve a calculus of memory. Equally, … More The Zenith
The connection between unity and integrity is often missed because our modern epistemology, founded on the premise of Individualism and randomness cannot fathom a notion such as the parallelism of spheres, so intuitively grasped by ancient cultures more attune to the collective dimension than the individual and to notions of divine order rather than randomness … More Divine Division / Diabolic Integrity
The following was originally published under the title Resilience or Reliance earlier this year. In light of current focus in some quarters I am re-releasing for contemplation of all who will and can. “The settlement of Jamaica was not financed by any joint-stock company as in New England or Virginia; or by any lord proprietor … More Di solution – a life or debt decision
This peculiar phrase, oft repeated in ritual prayer privately and publicly by adherents to the Christian faith encodes a key understanding, vital to all humanity, regardless of faith or lack thereof. Properly understood to be addressing a personification of the progenitor and source of the cosmic order, when stripped of gender and paternal assumptions, which … More Hallowed be Thy Name 3
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