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Hating Trees
When did it start? When did men begin to think of trees as adornments to their pride or fortune? Was it when the lighthouse at Alexandria was built to guide ships to the harbour so commerce should not be hampered by mere geography and the fall of night? Some say the lighthouse was built to tell the world of the greatness of the Ptolemaic King Ptolemy II. But it also displays the hubris of men. The architect who built the edifice for Ptolemy had the king’s name rendered in plaster, but when, inevitably, the plaster fell away it revealed the name of the architect chiselled in stone. Ego on the slow burn.
Consider the Library
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Smoke Shift
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Gravidity and Parity
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Future Tense
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Heading to Somewhere Important
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Where Then Shall Hope and Fear—
On 3 April 2020, US Democrat and presidential hopeful Joe Biden—or more likely one of his team of social media minions—tweeted: ‘Now more than ever, we need to choose hope over fear. We will beat COVID-19. We will overcome this. Together.’ It’s hard not to appreciate the banality of this little squitter.
What Is a Woman?
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2020 Vision and Optical Illusions
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I Would Like to Thank …
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Bubbles: Covid and Its Metaphors
Viruses and colonialism are hand in glove, to posit an unsanitary metaphor. As Jared Diamond writes in Guns, Germs and Steel, his bestselling global history, European colonisation, particularly in the Americas and Australasia, cannot be understood without reference to the terrible, at times genocidal, ravages of disease on indigenous societies.
