Just after publishing the immediately-preceding post, I read Pankaj Mishra’s essay, Welcome to the age of anger. It is a brilliant combination of erudition and a quality not oft-alloyed with erudition – so-called “common” sense.
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This post highlights three interesting essays on the above.
Only one author is primarily a journalist; the other two are, respectively, an English physicist/cosmologist and an Australian (of Greek ancestry) who is best known for his provocative literary fictions.
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An obsession with celebrity does not lie quietly beside the other things we value; it takes their place.
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What elephants may be lacking most of all is not language but the Rosetta Stone to prove they have it and clue us in to what on God’s green earth they’re talking about all the time…. They have a vocal range of ten octaves (a piano has seven), and up to three-quarters of the sounds they produce are inaudible to human ears.
2 CommentsPolitics has a way of reducing everyone, including the most brilliant – especially the most brilliant.
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When someone next to you answers the phone and starts talking loudly as if you didn’t exist, you realize that, in her private zone, you don’t. And slowly, the whole concept of a public space — where we meet and engage and learn from our fellow citizens — evaporates.
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Also graceless, this attempt to get airborne was a success. With luck, the lookalike will prove less successful!
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I fully expected him to attack me, because that is what he does…But I’m much more worried about his becoming president than I am about anything he might try to do to me.
Comments closedI put lipstick on a pig. I feel a deep sense of remorse that I contributed to presenting Trump in a way that brought him wider attention and made him more appealing than he is. I genuinely believe that if Trump wins and gets the nuclear codes there is an excellent possibility it will lead to the end of civilisation…
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