Some years ago, a visitor to this site , who had just read my essay, "Herman Hesse vs the Steppenwolf", told me that I had completely misread Hesse's novel Steppenwolf, from start to finish. That made me smile, for it showed me that he had read the essay from start to finish, and understood, at … Continue reading Misreading Fiction | The Society for the Prevention of Fictional Characters | Herman Hesse vs the Steppenwolf revisited
Rescuing Reality | Ontario’s increased speed limits
As someone who spent 40 + years investigating motor vehicle accidents and the injuries resulting from them, I have to say something here.
Rescuing the Future | Who made this Mess?
Waking up this morning, I found myself reluctant to return to this world where I have to learn about war, bombing, photos of destroyed buildings, plus more political chaos, more corruption and more lies. . I thought again about how this current darkness in civilization is almost entirely the work of men. If world leaders … Continue reading Rescuing the Future | Who made this Mess?
Rescuing the Future | Sunlight for Sale
The sun may be setting on civilization, not rising on it.
Rescuing Reality | We did not weave the web of life
we did not weave the web of life
Rescuing Reality | The JWST vs the Big Bang
It's time we stopped ....pretending that this century old theory is irrefutable and realize that a full understanding of the universe is still far away.
Rescuing Reality | The Tariff War | What’s going on?
........I sense many people silently asking themselves, "What's going on?"
America | What now?
Fasten your seat-belts.
Rescuing Reality | Afghanistan | Taliban vs ISIS | Rosa Brooks and her book, How Everything became War and the Military Became Everything
This morning I read a BBC World News account of the suicide bombing of a bank this week in Khandahar, Afghanistan (in the province defended by Canadian forces for some years), where 21 people were killed and many injured.What drew my attention especially was this comment by the author: .......the overall security situation in Afghanistan … Continue reading Rescuing Reality | Afghanistan | Taliban vs ISIS | Rosa Brooks and her book, How Everything became War and the Military Became Everything
Alan Conrad 