As a child of the 1960s I was always led to believe that one of the biggest threats to the world after nuclear war was the looming problem of overpopulation. It’s not a new idea — it was first vaunted by the eighteenth century cleric Thomas Malthus who suggested, the…

The Finns have a saying that describes an event or ceremony of no importance and translated directly it’s ‘a cat’s christening’. I’m not sure if it’s a double edged critique of futile religious ceremonies as well as the purported low value of a cat’s life but it comes to mind…

The master comedian George Carlin wrote a wonderful skit about the paradox of our time in history, which if you haven’t read it, I recommend, because it is a summation of everything wrong with what we describe as ‘normal’. Carlin died in 2008 so he didn’t get to add to…

Given the present insanity the world is plunged in, does anyone recall the financial crisis of 2008 which plunged the world economy into a tailspin it never really recovered from (all this obviously long before the pandemic)? Among other things, states printed money in mass quantitative easing programs to shore…

Answer: terror. On February 24th, without even a declaration of war (and no case for it), Russia invaded its small neighbor, Ukraine with an army of 190 000 state sanctified vandals, many of whom in peacetime would be facing long sentences for the crimes they are committing. Rumbling into Ukraine…

Never in my 58 years have I experienced such mental trauma from an external geopolitical event as the Putin-led invasion of Ukraine. I grew up in Britain with the existential threat of nuclear war in the background and was horrified by dramatizations of worst case scenarios and post-apocalyptic dystopias. Somehow…

Getting to acceptance is a long and difficult journey through the looking glass. It requires a great deal of self-reflection, introspection, and honesty to truly accept yourself, your life situation and all the decisions you have made to bring yourself to the present moment. As I wrote in an earlier…

Do you ever get the feeling things are out of whack? Against the bigger picture of life on the planet in the first world, everything else seems normal, yet it’s not. If you’ve had Covid, every malaise in your body after the fact could be interpreted as a symptom of…

Touch What is the largest organ of the body? If you read the title to this blog you could probably guess the answer: it is your skin, which to many may sound strange since many would not equate this elastic shrink wrap of our bones, muscles, and inner workings with…