A Puff of Absurdity: On Feudalism

Have we ever lived outside of a system of pseudo-feudalism with peasantry, slavery, or the working poor labouring for the benefit of Kings, land barons, or factory owners?  One perspective of the past thousand years or so might go something like this: Peasants lived on the King’s land, first for

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A Puff of Absurdity: On Hearing Others

Louis Cozolino’s beautifully written book on neuroscience has an explanation near the end about our necessary interconnectedness.  Communication from one body part to anther happens when messages throughout our body are transmitted by neurons, but the transmission doesn’t happen inside the neurons but between them, in the synaptic gap that separates the

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THE FIFTH COLUMN: Happy New Years

Community My New Years Resolution for our society is to no longer worship at the twin altars of individualism and technology but rather to embrace the saviour of community. From the industrial revolution to the high tech revolution we have deluded ourselves that technology would solve all our problems. While

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