• Critics And Commoners

    I enjoy Michael Bay movies. There, I’ve said it. According to the vast majority of film critics this makes me no-taste, mouth-breathing Troglodyte. This must be true because everyone knows that critics know more about movies than I do. This great deception is based on the idea that the masses wouldn’t know or appreciate art…

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  • We Are Still Animals

    Something that always annoys me is to hear some atrocity described as “inhuman”. Unless it was in fact committed by a non-human, then the use of this word is always unjustified. This is the basest form of self-indulgence. We want to reassure ourselves that we could never do whatever it is. The easiest way to…

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  • I find it increasingly common for people to judge beliefs rather than people.  Most of the major faiths tend not to encourage their members to commit horrible, unspeakable acts.  Yet every time a member of any belief system does anything unpleasant, either they or others will attribute the action to the faith. What got me…

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