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July 28, 2024
Phil Rambling on about Doris Lessing's book SHIKASTA
<p>What fascinates us about Science Fiction is its and inventiveness and ability to make us dream = and escape the attention seeking present and its certitudes. However, Science Fiction can also be stultifying and, at heart, nauseatingly conventional. Even the best Science Fiction can age fast and badly. However, Science Fiction when it is written by a great writer can be almost visionary. </p> <p>Doris Lessing's book <strong>SHIKASTA</strong> is not perfect book and it is hard work, but the depth and breadth of its vision is daring and breath taking. </p>
August 4, 2023
Are you a Humane Socialist?
<p> Modern capitalism is like smoking. We all know it’s bad for us.</p> <p>Modern Capitalism is like smoking or cars designed without any safety features. We know that smoking and poor safety features on cars have killed and maimed many millions, many innocents.</p> <p>The companies that made a profit from cigarettes and unsafe cars knew that the world knew. They knew that scientists had exposed them as pushers and killers and that ordinary people also knew. Cigarette manufacturers were just playing for time.</p> <p>Modern capitalism is playing for time, too. It is the cause of poverty and climate change and of nearly all the evils faced by people on this planet.</p> <p>It’s very simple. This is what you get if you run a society based on greed and exploitation.</p> <p>But capitalism’s number is up. The problem of climate change alone is enough to kill it. So many of us see the creeps behind the curtain for what they are. They are not gods or wizards, they are usually just incredibly rich, selfish, ruthless dodgy old white men.</p> <p><strong>Noam Chomsky</strong>, bless him, answered the question perfectly. When he was challenged with TINA, and someone said that socialism had failed and that it has no alternative to capitalism, he said that <strong>of course</strong> there was an alternative.</p> <p>It was to <strong>not</strong> exploit, to <strong>not </strong>pollute, to <strong>not </strong>declare war, to <strong>not </strong>divide and rule, to <strong>not </strong>do all the things that are done to ensure the wealthy stay wealthy and get wealthier. And to <strong>do </strong>the things that socialists, and perhaps even communists, have always wanted. And what are they? Well what is humane socialism? Humane socialism, my friends, is the socialism we want it to be.</p> <p> </p>
June 22, 2021
Scientism against the UFOs
<p><strong>It’s a failure of the imagination.</strong></p> <p><br></p> <p><strong>By Phil Hall</strong></p> <p>The US military defense establishment has now admitted that UFOs are real. Let that sink in. Did the penny drop? Scientists can and must try to explain the phenomenon of UFOs, not simply attempt to debunk it. It has become crystal clear now that some UFOs are not swamp gas or weather balloons or Venus, or even drones. They’re powered craft.</p> <p><br></p> <p>This episode is also available as a blog post: https://arsnotoria.com/2021/06/19/scientism-against-the-ufos/</p>
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