Tag: community
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The balance sheet
Imagine if tomorrow morningEvery single person’s bank account defaulted to exactly one million dollars.USD of course.Imagine the outrage, the joy, the despair, the relief.Everyone stay calm!It’s a technical glitch.A very few would say.We just need to adjust some code and everything will go back the way it should be.But it is not a glitch.And almost…
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Bus stop.
Hidden handsGift a sprayOf sun. These concrete cylindrical bus shelters with their striking orange fibreglass window frames and matching seats were designed and built around Canberra from the mid-seventies. Despite their impracticalities and moth-to-flame attraction for vandals and graffiti artists (the Lexan windows were particularly vulnerable to being melted with cigarette lighters and are mostly…
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The ones who walk away.
The following passage is an excerpt from Iain McGilchrist’s magnificent book ‘The Matter With Things’ Ursula Le Guin’s searing short story, ‘The ones who walk away from Omelas’, describes a city of extraordinary beauty, whose people lead lives of delight, great wholesomeness and vitality. They are a morally and politically sophisticated society, technologically not advanced,…
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Climate emergency: no soup for you.
Recently I became angry watching a news report about a group of ‘kids’ who allegedly threw tomato soup over Van Gogh’s Sunflowers painting at the National Gallery in London. That is just vandalism, I thought. And although I am super duper sympathetic to the cause of raising awareness of the climate emergency….defacing precious art is…
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