Tag: Jeremiad

• Sheep in Wolf Clothing

  I suppose it has always happened -there’s very little that’s really new around; I still wonder why it’s necessary, though. Even through the lens of my white male privilege –my through-a-glass-darkly upbringing- I continue to wonder about these things. Why, for example, do I even have a lens? Was it necessary simply because in the […]

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  September 27, 2017

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  BBC news, boundaries, challenges, chromosomal lottery, fairy tales, famous historical women, gender barriers, Hildegard von Bingen, history, Invictus, Jeremiad, Mererani, mining, need to be a man, Tanzania, tanzanite, walls, white male privilege, William Ernest Henley

• Trust in the Tameness of a Wolf?

  Okay, enough is enough! All these years I have been an advocate of cultural relativism. Ethical parity when societal mores and folkways are accounted for. I still am a staunch defender of freedom of belief and societally derived variations from what might be seen as a Western norm, but there are times when I must […]

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  March 22, 2017

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  blackmail, cultural relativism, ethical relativism, honour-bound cultures, Jeremiad, mobile phones, rape, sexual violence, shaming, social media, the Times of India, WhatsApp, youth, Youtube

• The Bicameral Mind

  Time to unwrap the Jeremiad again, I’m afraid; I’m getting tired of this. Really tired. I know it’s an American thing, but stop it will you? Or can you? Every time there’s a bicameral shift it tears the fabric a little more and unravels what I want to believe about your country. Yes, I’m Canadian […]

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  January 25, 2017

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  Aesop’s Fables, bicameral system of government, Canada, family planning, federal defunding, gynaecological convention, Heaven, Hell, Jeremiad, mailboxes, opinions, pregnancy termination, USA, women’s rights

• Biding the Pelting of this Pitiless Storm

  Hubris –the extreme arrogance that was so offensive to the old Greek gods that they reacted with punishment and an exile from grace- is that what this is? I’m not sure anymore… It’s not, perhaps, so obvious as the vaulting ambitions of a Macbeth or the arrogance of a Caesar, nor even the overweening pride […]

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  November 16, 2016

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  antibiotic resistance, antibiotics, azithromycin, Caesarian sections, Cassandra, cefazolin, Here be dragons, hubris, Jeremiad, Julius Caesar, NEJM, New England Journal of Medicine, Oedipus Rex, post-op infections, pride, prophylactic antibiotics, Tita and colleagues, unintended consequences

• Aphantasia?

  We are a culture of categorists. Slotists. Namists. It is a society of Nomino, ergo sum. It’s as if we can sleep more securely knowing we have named and categorized everything we have seen that day –no matter how bizarre, no matter how unimportant. No matter, even, how mistaken the belief that by so doing, […]

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  August 28, 2015

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  aphantasia, BBC news, Bell curve, boundaries, curiosity, Hamlet, hyperphantasia, Jeremiad, naming, Professor Adam Zeman, psychopathology, Rorschach inkblot, taxonomy, University of Exeter