by Jim Ball | Aug 6, 2019 | Blog, Culture, Gun Violence
These sentiments expressed by James Howard Kunstler at the link below, goes to the very heart of why the gun violence in the United States on the weekend, happened at all. His thoughts and words are so true, not just for America but for the world and particularly, the...
by Jim Ball | Sep 15, 2018 | Blog, Cultural Relativism, Culture, Quadrant, Society, Society and culture |
A great read… “…..Western societies no longer exhibit true virtue, having traded the genuine article for the posturing which draws applause on Twitter. They no longer yearn for excellence. They do not seek truth. What we have witnessed is a wholesale...
by Jim Ball | Jul 28, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Education, Random Notes, Social Media |
This is sobering stuff and a brilliant piece of writing by Chris Kenny that pretty much crystallises, confirms and distils what we already know and understand both, empirically and intuitively. It afflicts many in this techy, wired and connected world where...
by Jim Ball | Jun 2, 2018 | Blog, Cultural Relativism, Culture, Random Notes, Society, Society and culture |
Perhaps I’m becoming something of a dinosaur but as sweary and as fruity in language as I can be, I do have limits and believe in time, place and occasion. And never to be worn as an adornment. Walking around Kylemore Abbey outside Galway, in Ireland, which houses a...
by Jim Ball | May 1, 2018 | Australian History, Blog, Culture, Culture Wars, Cutlture Wars, Society |
The Long March continues — ’…The disfiguring of Captain James Cook’s statue with painted slogans in Sydney last year was not, after all, a criminal act of historical illiteracy, or so we’re being asked to believe. It was a gesture of resistance intended to...
by Jim Ball | Apr 19, 2018 | Blog, Culture, Education, The Holocaust |
There’s the problem right there as the dumbing down continues unchallenged and is all but complete. And we all thought the Pink Floyd song, Another Brick In the Wall was just a classic hit —- ‘…We don’t need no education, We don’t need no thought...
