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Death And Destruction

This article was written by Anthony Stevens and given as a lecture at The Durrell School, Corfu, July 4th 2007. Its such a good piece.

I think we can all probably agree that the most terrible disaster that one group of human beings can inflict on another is war. Tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes and floods are bad enough, but these are not caused by human agency. Wars are – the loss of life, the appalling physical injuries, the wholesale destruction of towns, cities, crops and the proud achievements of history, the lasting psychological and emotional traumas suffered by the survivors – all cause misery on an indescribable scale. Yet we go on doing it to one another, generation after generation. Why?

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Prevaricate

I just deleted a truck load of spam comment from the blog and asked myself “Why people do it?” The comments are not real and the content, lies.

The comments have no basis in reality. They contain no fabric of truth.

Why do it?

Money!

Material gain.

Lie. Steal. Cheat.

People do it for money.

They have become… money’s bitch.

They look in the mirror and fool themselves this is a good way to live.

How foolish? They’ve lost any semblance of dignity or self-respect.

No one is born bad. No one is born a liar.

People’s lives are shaped through their thoughts, through their words, through their actions.

We ourselves make what we become. We alone are responsible.

Money Can’t Buy Me Love

I read an interesting article on the BBC’s website about Neil Boorman’s experiment to ditch brand names and his brand oriented lifestyle and live without branded goods for a year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/6977844.stm

He began by burning all his brand name goods, then went on to live for a year without purchasing any major brands.

He called his condition OBD. (Obsessive Branding Disorder) Which he states was a combination of compulsive shopping an reliance on status symbol brands for self esteem. He goes on to state that he did not buy goods for the basic function they performed, but for the way they made him feel.

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Mis-Representation?

I go to Amazon.co.uk website to check out some low cost items I bought for the kitchen and I find a link/ad for chinese tea.

This is no ordinary tea. This tea has other properties hidden from the casual user. This tea melts fat. Though up to now, we only believe oxy-acetaline guns and high pressure gas torches did that, but no. This magical item has undocumented properties, which up to now, the scientific community has missed.

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Is She Just?

Watching a movie and a guy says:

“She’s my dream girl”

What does it mean?

He dreamt about her the other night? He holds an image of her in his head? No, its not that. Though that’s not far off the mark

Carl Jung, the Swiss psychologist explained it rather well. Each male holds an image of the ideal female in his personal unconscious. The ideal image starts off with a form that contains all mans contact with woman. Then add to the mix the individuals personal contact with woman, namely mother figure, sisters, aunts, teachers, other females in the village, town or city. From the individuals encounters, the stuff he likes and stuff he dislikes, he builds an unconscious image of his ideal woman.

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Or Not?

I’m driving home tonight. Its late, dark, cold and I feel tired. Earlier this evening, I had been reading one of Joseph Campbell’s books on Mythology.

Its been snowing here for the past few days and its uncommonly cold. In Canada, Russia, Sweden, Norway, Finland, etc., they know this scene every winter. For us simple islanders living in the moderate climate that is England, this is weird.

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