‘Islamophobia’, a pseudo medical term, designed to silence the arguments of opponents, by socially ostracising them? A ‘phobia’ is an irrational fear. Could it be that those who use the term, are really the ones who have the ‘phobia’, a phobia about not being able to handle the arguments of […]
Needle’s Eye
African-Caribbean slavery and the present-day industrial slavery
More than half the world’s cobalt used in smart phones and similar gadgets comes from the Democratic (sic) Republic of Congo. Around 40,000 children are labouring in mines, many in Congo’s cobalt mines. Nigel Pocock The biggest of these mines are Chinese subsidiaries. Microsoft, one of the most […]
Trauma and redemption
The first thing that strikes even the most casual visitor (to Antigua) who has any awareness, is the huge disparity between the nouveau riches with their ostentatious and garish houses, surrounded by security measures, and the shacks (often colourfully decorated) of the poor, much like beach huts in the United […]
A legacy of slavery: an inherited attitude of perpetrators vs. victims
What are the attitudes of both groups? What are the implications for social justice and for the healing of past hurts? Nigel Pocock Perpetrators: As you read this, people are screaming in pain, and longing for death. A torturer exercises his instrumental, and possibly, sadistic, will on them. […]
The better angels of our nature?
Is violence decreasing worldwide? This is the question addressed by Steven Pinker (professor of psychology, Harvard), to which he answers a resounding, albeit qualified, 800 page ‘Yes!’ Nigel Pocock For hundreds of years violence has been dropping, even if there are huge spikes in the downward graph caused […]
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