Hypocrisy & Straw-man Arguments of Racism Meghan & Harry’s interview with Oprah Winfrey has created a tsunami of emotions with the media obligingly stoking the fires for creating headlines, increased circulation and clicks. But is this shrill cacophony a clever ruse for some insidious motives wrapped in hypocrisy and straw-manning? To explore this, let us […]
Animal Farm and the American Elections Trying to make the most of lockdown, I decided to revive my interest in Perry Mason novels which I used to read with avid interest in my youth. However, I was gravely disappointed when I found that they no longer held my interest. This made me think as to
Overlapping Facts & Fiction One silver lining to the current Covid-19 lockdown has been the ample opportunity it has provided for catching up on my reading list. As a consequence, I recently completed Norman Mailers “The Castle in the Forest” which chronicles a fictional account of how Adolf Hitler, was groomed from a very young
Social Media in the Dock! I was surprised when thinking about the almost hypnotic lure of Social Media I stumbled upon its similarities with the story of Pinocchio. The big difference being that in this case it was not the wooden puppet Pinocchio but the whole of human civilisation being led down a garden path!
