Third Age of the West

Democracy is going backwards. The model that has seen the West thrive, that lifted the majority of its peoples to an affluence previously unknown, is now under threat. From the same forces it ousted, that now enjoys a resurgence.   The Oligarchy of Human Nature is on...

MAD

It’s that tribal thing again. And it’s spreading across the world. Throwing up endless conflicts, where one side seeks to wipe out the other; and probably will.   The Syrians are a fine example. On one side a brutal and oppressive regime. A leader who has used...

Social Experiment

When a species’ social integration competes directly with its base nature. The genes will-out. The social experiment will end, and violence will pursue. Then Mother Nature will put us back in our box.  Human nature is only civilised when the unnatural art of being...

Humanity

Humans have always struggled with the concept of Humanity. It’s not a collective, or an abstract. Not a fanciful notion to be picked up and put down. It’s a moral code. A standard of behaviour. But like habits, good and bad, we always exercise what is easiest to...

Trump

Most American kids have posters above their beds, of dream cars, beautiful women, and the American flag. The ‘Pin-up’ boy above President Trump’s bedstead was, and still is, President Putin.   Trump craves for the Kremlin Model to be applied in Washington DC. The...