Category Archives: Philosophy

Beaten to Death by Clowns

Posted on January 8, 2016 by formerdundeeman

Amateur Night in the Big Top is a 2003 album by Shaun Ryder of Happy Mondays fame.  In my mind it is brilliant.  Varied, complex music with a variety of styles including jazz, dance and eastern; cross references, reprises and Ryder … Continue reading →

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Psychopathic Cultures and Toxic Empires

Posted on April 10, 2015 by formerdundeeman

Will Black’s brilliant book Psychopathic Cultures and Toxic Empires is absolutely essential reading if you want to stop being shocked every day some Establishment figure or powerful organization does something disgusting.  Of course they do terrible things – they are psychopaths. … Continue reading →

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Any Random Therapy – the Ultimate Psychotherapy?

Posted on February 17, 2015 by formerdundeeman

If you bother to take a look at Wikipedia’s list of psychotherapies you will find a rather impressive number of them. More so when you think there’s an even greater number of less official therapies hiding behind the self-improvement and … Continue reading →

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Our Society is Run by Junkies (and don’t kid yourself)

Posted on December 11, 2014 by formerdundeeman

Is society increasingly dominated by people who are for all intents and purposes junkies?  Look at the evidence.  How do our business leaders and our politicians behave?  From a review of the 1992 book When Society Becomes an Addict by Anne Wilson Schaef: Many politicians behave … Continue reading →

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How did Overhead become more Important than Work?

Posted on December 8, 2014 by formerdundeeman

As a modern society we decide that there is a minimum standard of living and facilities that we are prepared to tolerate.  If we had not desired this then we’d all still be living in caves and chasing our food … Continue reading →

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