April 5th 2025 Blood sacrifice for capital Blood sacrifice for capital Black and brown people. The poor, sick and needy. People from countries hollowed out for hundreds of years by colonisation. People susceptible to addiction. People with cancer – some inhuman politician suggested they should be working. Those lacking access to the basics of well-being. Education, health care and technology. Under neoliberalism and capitalism, these people are blood sacrifices. Expendable. All in the name of...
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April 4th 2025 Nominating, making promises and keeping them Nominating, making promises and keeping them Nominating – to call or mention by name. I nominate. I name. I nominate to do ‘x’. When we nominate voluntarily, we are choosing without coercion. I choose. The ultimate act of freedom. When we nominate a commitment or promise, it is on us, the nominator, to keep our promise or commitment. Why, then, do we do this and not keep our promise? Why do we sabotage ourselves, our word and our...
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April 3rd 2025 Everything is terrorism except terrorism Everything is terrorism except terrorism This is the boy-cried-wolf statement of our times. Everything is terrorism, except actual terrorism. You know, when a country goes in and deliberately targets aid workers driving clearly marked aid vehicles and then seeks to hide the evidence of their murder by burying it, that kind of terrorism. But setting a car on fire, joining student protests against genocide, and, unfortunately, having...
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April 2nd 2025 Injustice for those kicked to the curb by injustice Injustice for those kicked to the curb by injustice Nothing makes me madder than the elite getting away with everything and anything, while the people who have limited access to money, fancy lawyers, and high-quality support get punished for minutia. I watch those with obscene wealth and power get away with every variety of criminality and cruelty. Extortion. Bribery. Rape. Insider trading. Exploitation. Lying as a way of...
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April 1st 2025 Betraying your mission to save your bacon Betraying your mission to save your bacon We watch this happening everywhere. The mission of a University is to be open-minded, exploratory, co-learning, research-based, big-picture thinking, challenge thinking, stretch, innovate, and emerge. Not bending the knee to the money, finance and the lobbyists. And as they do this, throwing a select group of students under the bus, or in the case of the USA, onto a bus to a detention centre for...
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March 31st 2025 Gravity and the Pedestal Gravity and the Pedestal Putting people on a pedestal, no matter how high the pedestal, has only one ending. We can admire someone. We can be inspired by them. They can mentor us. But to place them above us diminishes everyone, the person placed on the pedestal and those looking up and bowing down. This is in distinction to reverence. To revere. A deep and abiding respect for. One of the intentions I set for a future intimate partnership before I met...
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March 30th 2025 We are the imaginal cells We are the imaginal cells It is a beautiful Sunday morning, with blue skies after a few days of relentless rain in an already soaked area. I watch a country that has, from its colonial existence, espoused freedom and free speech take the quick step to autocracy, a path it has been building from its inception, the shadow of freedom never addressed through its relentless oppression of anyone who doesn’t fit the constructed image of what a human should...
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March 29th 2025 Particular customer Particular customer I will tell you exactly what I want. You can serve me and make me happy, or you can ignore me and make me unhappy. Or we can renegotiate. This is real for me as I have a daily ritual luxury of a morning coffee, and I like my morning coffee in a very particular way. Boiling – as in technically boiling – hot. Over the years, I have attempted to communicate this request in as many ways as I can to ensure I get a boiling cup of coffee. Words...
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March 28th 2025 Courage Leadership Wisdom Courage Leadership Wisdom I loathe cowards Those who make mistakes and then try to blame another, deflect, or dismiss the accusation as trivial. It shows the level of cowardly depravity, far from any quality of leadership. The craven people in the top positions of government, not just in the USA, but in most governments, disgust me with their lies and blaming. I struggle to find one redeeming quality about them. Courage is the ability to stand in your...
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