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Post Truth = Propaganda
Post truth = the OED word of the year = objective facts less important to forming public opinion than appeals to emotions and personal belief. According to OED, post-truth has come about as the result of ‘truth’ having become devalued – life as we have known it is finished, or is it? Let’s take a closer…
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Power and Promise – Utopian Propaganda & Orwell’s Animal Farm
In the preface to his Ukrainian Edition of Animal Farm, George Orwell says that his reason for writing the novel was to reveal what he believed to be the Soviet myth underlying Socialism – the political and economic model that he wholeheartedly embraced. According to Orwell, nothing had caused greater harm to the Socialist movement…
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Praying
These days, there seems to be a good deal of praying going on. I have no problem with that – we need people of faith to counterbalance those of too little (or no) faith. However, I’d just like to point out that there are a good many people who could use some help in the here and…
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Eclipse of the Day
Unless an eclipse triggers a sensitive natal aspect (i.e. between 5-13 degrees of Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces, or Gemini), or falls on your angles (i.e. cusps of the 1st, 4th, 7th, or 10th houses), you are likely not to feel it too much. But if it does, then it will function like a power surge, provoking…
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Ms A to spill beans about hubby’s lover?
In the eyes of her husband, Mr A, both Ms A and the marriage are in a slightly weaker position than that of the lover and his job is already in a debilitated condition. Spilling the beans, so to speak, may not only cause him to lose his job (which may happen anyway), but it…
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Should Ms A move to Guernsey?
There is no current aspect forming between Ms A and a move abroad to Guernsey although an aspect will be made at some time in the future, it is likely to come too late.
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Should Ms K divorce?
‘Something’ is wrong with this idea of divorce (indicated by the quincunx aspect) and the divorce will not proceed until it is fixed.
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Utopian Politics (2012-2025)
Remember that in Greek, the world ‘utopia’ means ‘nowhere’. Is ‘nowhere’ where you really want to go?
