Our New Untouchables
Discrimination & banishment have deep roots in human nature. The push to make a vaxx passport mandatory ignores the fact that such a policy would create a new caste of…
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…