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Right wing “populism”: it’s all a scam
Watching the insane dissembling of democracy, the rule of law, rationality, compassion and civility into a mass madness of racism, intolerance, hatred, genocide, the abandonment of even the pretence of truth, and a frighteningly unconscious embrace of emergent tyranny is truly crazy-making in itself, which is part of the problem. No-one feels like they have…
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Empire of the mind
On 17th March, many Irish celebrated St Patrick’s Day with typical Irish flair and copious amounts of Guinness. Of course, it was St Colmcille who brought Christianity to Ireland, not St Patrick. There were no snakes either. There is no fossil record of snakes ever being in Ireland. The snakes were a metaphor for Druids,…
