The Sinister Art Of Subjugation
Initially, totalitarianism gains acceptance by recruiting people on grounds of lofty-sounding ideals, and using them to suppress dissenting opinions. What these recruits don’t realize is that they are also the…
Consequences Be Damned
(Image Credit: ‘Uprooted Tree From Storm Sandy’ on Flickr Account ‘Arlington County; the image is at this link. Used without modification under Creative Commons Licence) The debate around ‘vaccination passports’…
Why Vaccine ‘Passports’ Are a Bad Idea
As the push by media & officialdom gathers momentum to have some form of documentation in place for a person’s vaccination status, it becomes incumbent on us to ponder as…
Greener Pastures
It is human nature to fantasize about living in a Utopia. It is also the result of human nature that all attempts to achieve this dream not only fail, but…
Well-meaning Villains
Many atrocities were inflicted on the FN by people who were convinced that they were doing beneficial work. In similar vein, today’s self-proclaimed ‘allies’ of FN only end up creating…
Why Math Is Not Racist
The maniacal zeal required to foist the ideas about racism and oppression on a neutral subject like math necessarily ignores the history of its development. Equally inevitably, it also poisons…
Heads, I win
The proposal to allow biz to check the vaccination status of customers in order to decide whether to serve them is in true totalitarian mode: it ignores the realities on…
Locals, Settlers and Interlopers
One crucial challenge in the debate around the nature of Canada as a country is that the definitions of some key terms are not universally accepted. This ambiguity must be…
State Of Mobs
When a State fails to prosecute criminal acts because they are attached to politically useful issues, it ends up undermining its own authority. Eventually, the social contract becomes vulnerable to…
Strangers To The Dispute
One crucial challenge in discussing First Nations issues is that many Canadians lack sufficient familiarity with the factors involved. This raises the probability that their well-meaning stance may be counter-productive.