I watch far too much TV . It is a distraction but also a remedy to the noiselessness that seems so daunting. Now I write about that distraction. There is a danger when a distraction is what you write about because everything then becomes wholly insular. It also allows you to maintain that behaviour while […]
A cup of tea in Britain, perhaps more so in England than Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, is a truly important thing. It is a cliché we are more than happy to buy into. Not in the sense of afternoon tea but a brew, a cup of tea you offer to someone when they come […]
If aspiring artists know that artists suffer for their work there is a likelihood they will see suffering as a gateway toward being a ‘real’ artist. The problem however is that once the aspiring artist knows that suffering will get them what they want it is probable that the suffering is no longer suffering at […]
In the last week I have read Phillips’ book on the state of education and its decline over the last few decades – beginning in the 1960s and ending in the 1990s (the book was first written in 1996. The fact that the book ends in the 90’s is no testament to the rise in […]
I have recently read a number of plays by the British play write Tom Stoppard. If I am honest I had not heard of him or his work until watching the BBC Imagine… documentary about his work and life. His work is funny and absurd in many ways. My focus on Heidegger’s philosophy led me […]
I have never actually seen The Shining but I have watched the documentary Room 237 which explores the different subtexts of the film many times. The ability to have an insight into something is then more important than actually seeing the work itself. Here I mean seeing the work itself in a Heideggerian sense. Not […]
David Mitchell and Stephen Fry, just to pick a few names out of a large number, are intelligent people who appear on British television regularly. It is not unfair to suggest that they themselves probably do not watch much television which will account for their higher-than-average intellect. (Their intellect my actually be why they do […]
There is a danger in wishing to have understood everything during the process of writing a dissertation. I have spent the last year working on a 90 page Masters by Research dissertation about how Heidegger can alter the way we view graffiti and street art within the context of the city. I submitted it three […]
Can artists only make two albums that can be held up as masterpieces or great works of music? Two classics. If we look at those who are heralded as geniuses within music there is a trend of those who died young. They are those who have had short careers and have released few albums. Their […]
Saying white lives matter is like a child demanding presents on its siblings birthday. That child needs to learn that sometimes they aren’t the focus of attention, and they shouldn’t expect to be either. It is important for that child to learn that they are not a victim due to the fact that attention is […]
Come Back To Earth 