Reviews
It is about friendship, not just the friendship of the two main characters, Eric and Carl, and their nearest friends but the friendship of strangers and others. Even cheery and motherly sweet shop managers, vinyl vendors and bookshop proprietors and yet more.
Sociology
Restricting Social Media There is a possible advantage to a restriction on delivering services to those under 16 and that is teaching them to minimise their personal data or masking it completely from data corporations. That can be used when they're adult as well. Nurturing children is the
Politics
You are hard done by, the Past is a better country, just make this mark and there will be Change. The Change is never explicitly described, only its certainty and benefit.
Writing
Previously published* The story of the lost script, the lost manuscript, the proof eaten by the dog are all both stereotypical and common for writers whichever tool they've used to record their words, whether cuneiform, paint, ink, print or electromagnetic bits. For most writers that's been
Philosophy
We are perpetually, perhaps even cyclically, possessed by our perception of social discourse now primarily in social media. We compare it unfavourably with how it used to be, before Trump, before Brexit before whatever time; before the Interweb, before Facebook, before Twitter and Reddit. The relative heat, the name calling,
Ethics
It isn’t a matter of rank or seniority, though it is connected, it is whether you are in the circle, the gang, one of the guys, ‘U’ rather than ‘non-U’. It is a social group as well as authoritative.
Experiment
What I intend publishing here is as much an experiment as as well as having some value and interest. I will repost some older essays from Medium and begin on creating on the themes that interest me. These should be longer form than single posts on BlueSky or Mastodon. Themes
It is about friendship, not just the friendship of the two main characters, Eric and Carl, and their nearest friends but the friendship of strangers and others. Even cheery and motherly sweet shop managers, vinyl vendors and bookshop proprietors and yet more.
It isn’t a matter of rank or seniority, though it is connected, it is whether you are in the circle, the gang, one of the guys, ‘U’ rather than ‘non-U’. It is a social group as well as authoritative.
What I intend publishing here is as much an experiment as as well as having some value and interest. I will repost some older essays from Medium and begin on creating on the themes that interest me. These should be longer form than single posts on BlueSky or Mastodon. Themes
With Responsibility Comes Accountability
