by Jim Ball | Jul 20, 2019 | Blog, Random Notes, Society, Society and culture |
We hear a lot of people sneering with contempt at Donald Trumps call to arms to ‘Make America Great Again’. They try to intellectualise it and pretend they don’t understand what he means. Some say that America was never that great anyway. With this week, being 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 | 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 | Aug 29, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Moral narcissists, Society and culture |
I’ve endeavoured to extract the best pars in this cut and paste to convey the general essence which is a focus on the most smug, self absorbed, self basting, and narcissistic generation ever. The Silliest Generation “….Every generation, in its modesty, used to think...
by Jim Ball | Jul 6, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Society, Society and culture |
In many posts over the years both blog and Facebook, when discussing the zombie like mindlessness of many of the millennial generation and others under the spell of political correctness, I’ve described them as being analogous to the Eloi in HG Well’s Time...
by Jim Ball | May 6, 2017 | Blog, Culture, Random Notes, Society and culture, values |
Angela Shanahan in her column in The Australian, Moral virtue replaced by a the empty ideology of “values asks an opening question, “what do you mean by values?” I’m sure I’m not the only one, but this touched on something that makes me...
