Easter in Images

When I’m feeling lazy but still want to post something relevant I turn to cartoons. It’s fun to see how some people with talent and a twisted view on the world can create such things.

That didn’t age well

Caroonists have a special way of putting across a point of view. Some are blatantly biased while others seem to be a vision of the future. Either way this is a trip down memory lane from 2020 to present on how these times were seen by some.

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It’s always nice to rewind in time a bit and see how cartoons and memes defined the things going on in the world.

Fake News Alert

Okay I should have titled this “Shameless Self Promotion” as I am going to promote a little project I started a few weeks back. Lots of people have experienced strange feelings of rage, anxiety, or depression at times when watching, reading, or listening to news over the past few years. I know I have and

Woke Rap

I have a reasonable relationship with my teenage son and as such we have a shared sense of humour. We sometimes collude on frivolous things as it is entertaining. I was dropping him off at school as it was pissing down rain and I had to do the weekly grocery shopping. We started to formulate

Antipodean Angst – part 10

Subversion as a tool To understand how a thing works you must understand the mechanics of a thing. The principles of subversion are ancient. Refining and adapting those principles to the era and the environment they exist in is more or less fine-tuning. Sun-Tzu, the Chinese military strategist was poking around roughly in 500BC and

Antipodean Angst – part 9

Collective and Public Memory ‘Public memory was never short rather always selective.’ – Subharalin Thakuria ‘It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled.’ – Mark Twain  Anecdotally, it is said that the public memory is no more than six months. How true that is entirely subjective to the people

Antipodean Angst – part 5

Privacy – Fantasy or Reality What does privacy have to do with the health of our society? Privacy is, at times, a hotly contested concept, as it the right to privacy, how much privacy is warranted, and who is allowed privacy as a civil right. Additionally, the right for government to monitor population in what

Antipodean Angst – part 1

Introduction ‘What is joy without sorrow? What is success without failure? What is a win without a loss? What is health without illness? You have to experience each if you are to appreciate the other. There is always going to be suffering. It’s how you look at your suffering, how you deal with it, that