July 2010
5 posts
Recovery from a patient's perspective →
Having a catastrophic illness (the term gives me a slight thrill) is an interesting experience if it doesn’t see you off, albeit one you wouldn’t wish for. You learn a lot: about yourself, about your friends, family and colleagues, what matters and doesn’t. But mainly you learn about the grind of illness and recovery. If you’re the sort of person who has only ever had to...
Ambrose Evans-Pritchard →
The 20th Century was a horrible litany of absurd experiments and atrocities committed by intellectuals, or by elite groupings that claimed a higher knowledge. Simple folk usually have enough common sense to avoid the worst errors. Sometimes they need to take very stern action to stop intellectuals leading us to ruin.
The root error of the modern academy is to pretend (and perhaps believe, which...