The Earth is the Place

Underwaterlike cloud formations

A very large wave

Thu, May 24, 2007  Permanent link

Shackleton

Wed, May 9, 2007  Permanent link

"It hardly goes without saying that efficiency drives for better, more productive modes of energy use, for example, are sensible advances over wanton modes of energy production and distribution, and few people would argue that profligacy is a good thing per se. But the time, energy and effort expended in complying with the proliferation of ephemeral environmental criteria is a visible example of Amory Lovins’s preference for resource efficiency over labour efficiency (8). Making products work harder for you, regardless of the amount of time you have to put in to justify their use, is a poor kind of efficiency. It is the efficiency of the slave-owner"

Austin Williams - "Are environmentalists an oppressed minority?"

In TV, film, newspapers, schools and political circles, the green outlook has become the new orthodoxy. And still greens aren't happy.

Mon, Apr 23, 2007  Permanent link

A Segment From "A Perverts Guide to Cinema"

Fri, Apr 20, 2007  Permanent link

John Brown

"the most controversial of all nineteenth-century Americans."

Fri, Apr 20, 2007  Permanent link

Dr Michael Fitzpatrick on the Therapeutic State

Thu, Apr 12, 2007  Permanent link

Sachs Sucks

"Sachs has played a key role in transforming the contemporary mood of pessimism into a coherent intellectual system. He has used his considerable intellectual and oratorical gifts to develop an outlook of profoundly low expectations in relation to eradicating global poverty. The celebrity economist is a fitting prophet for our miserable age."

Read "Sachs Sucks" by Daniel Ben-Ami

Thu, Apr 12, 2007  Permanent link

The Global Warming Swindle

A documentary from Channel 4.

Commentaries on the film:
"Scientific consensus: the starting point of debate"
"Keep politics out of science – and vice versa"
"Apocalypse My Arse"
"Don't let truth stand in the way of a red-hot debunking of climate change"

Thu, Apr 12, 2007  Permanent link

Zizek on the Neighbor

Thu, Apr 12, 2007  Permanent link

Chesterton on Courage

"Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die. "He that will lose his life, the same shall save it," is not a piece of mysticism for saints and heroes. It is a piece of everyday advice for sailors or mountaineers. It might be printed in an Alpine guide or a drill book. This paradox is the whole principle of courage; even of quite earthly or quite brutal courage. A man cut off by the sea may save his life if he will risk it on the precipice. He can only get away from death by continually stepping within an inch of it. A soldier surrounded by enemies, if he is to cut his way out, needs to combine a strong desire for living with a strange carelessness about dying. He must not merely cling to life, for then he will be a coward, and will not escape. He must not merely wait for death, for then he will be a suicide, and will not escape. He must seek his life in a spirit of furious indifference to it; he must desire life like water and yet drink death like wine."

- Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Thu, Apr 12, 2007  Permanent link