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The few and the many via the unique
The rhetoric soars and dips… Literature as religion, however, is a project doomed to failure. For one thing, the cultivation of the former involves too few people to be a plausible substitute for the latter. Religion is a symbolic form … Continue reading
Incitation to Larcency
Massimo Bottura from the concluding paragraph to the introduction to Bread is Gold Food waste is one of the biggest problems of our century and our generation’s cross to bear. Numbers are numbers. Almost one billion people are undernourished. One-third … Continue reading
Captive to the Technology of Capture
I wrote to a friend about one particular aspect of the peaceful anti-transphobic protests at the Palmerston Branch of the Toronto Public Library – one that touches on the politics of representation (and insertion in social discourse)… bio-power, regimes of … Continue reading
Kindness – Organization – Resistance
He seems to have a bug-a-boo about online relationships… Christopher Hedges America, The Farewell Tour We have a brilliant peroration close to the end of the CBC Ideas show he quotes from his book and this is what he says … Continue reading
Sugar, Sugar, Honey, Honey
A certain song rings in my head when I contemplate the over-consumption of sugar — how it sneaks in everywhere like an earworm. Useful to be reminded: But while parents can say no, and theoretically so can children, I’m not … Continue reading
Facile Dichotomies
Bret Stephens How Plato Foresaw Facebook’s Folly “Technology promises to make easy things that, by their intrinsic nature, have to be hard.” Tweeting and trolling are easy. Mastering the arts of conversation and measured debate is hard. Texting is easy. … Continue reading
What Is Remembered: The Long View
Lorna Finlayson There is no sense in which my great-uncle, who died at the Somme along with hundreds of thousands of others, gave his life for my freedom. He was cannon fodder in a needless imperial war which created fertile … Continue reading
Whimp Out
Dear Diary, Saw Wainwright’s and McIvor’s Hadrian. A disappointment. Sabina’s aria in Act II was the best part. The ending backed off a possible naming of the gendered nature of Hadrian’s love for another man. We were treated to a … Continue reading
Perspectives and Perversions
Dave Morris begins his “Opening Doors” article about Rick Bébout’s web site (Eye May 12/05) by quoting Bébout on gay people and what they offer: “We should be gift-givers,” says Rick Bébout. “We should be people who understand we have … Continue reading
Cubicle Chronicles
Once upon a time there was a big bad employer (short-sighted employer who wanted to gut the collective agreement provisions for job security and merit pay — clawbacks which attacked the younger workers and would hobble the employer’s attempt to … Continue reading