This is the title Francis Fergusson gives the summary of Sophocles tragedy “Oedipus the King”, which according to Umberto Eco is the maximum condensation, that allows you to know something about a novel that’s not more than a two hundred page essay. Armando Orozco Tovar But going back […]
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Disasters: hitting the poor the most?
There are two themes I want to explore in this article. The first is that all disasters are essentially man-made. Secondly, that the poor are always hit by far the worst. Nigel Pocock It might seem surprising to my readers to make the assertion that earthquakes and other […]
Context, or how to break with the myth of the individual
The great majority of books on psychology refer to the individual person. It would seem as if each individual person were isolated from their social context. Mabel Encinas The idea of starting with an individual is fortunate and unfortunate at the same time. On the one hand the […]
God in the market place?
I want to raise questions. Questions about the nature of reality, and it is up to you to decide. French mathematician, Blaise Pascal (1623-62) hypothesised that “…God is or he is not”… Reason cannot decide this question… At the far end of this infinite distance a coin is being spun […]
Abortion: the wished for and the unwanted
To talk about this subject requires an all-round view. The conception of liffe as a straight line passing through points A, B, C, D is an over-simplification. This abstraction doesn’t correspond to anyone’s life, although sometimes we insist that it does. Mabel Encinas Life is more like a […]
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