Propaganda
Two farmers were leaning against a fence staring intensely at the horizon of a field where you could just make out the sheep, and there seemed to be a problem, but they couldn't quite see it, so one famer said to the other, "I'm going to go over there and 'ave a proper ganda!" A... Continue Reading →
A Word for Our Times – Why the Gulag Archipelago is a must read!
I am just starting the audio version of the Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, and the Forward by Jordan Peterson is simply magnificent. Below is the video recording of Peterson reading his own Forward, but I would advise getting the book whether in print or as I have, audio - This is supremely important today in the... Continue Reading →
Interpreting Sleeping Beauty
Telling our cultural stories is one thing; interpreting them is quite another. In the highly acclaimed '12 Rules for Life' by Jordan Peterson, in the chapter (or 'Rule 5') entitled 'Do Not Let Your Children Do Anything That Makes You Dislike Them' (ahem - note to self), Peterson offers a compelling hermeneutic for the classic Fairy Tale... Continue Reading →