Everyday life forced early man to defend himself against the threats of the environment, whereby it started to plan, create and apply this concept until it became an actual entity. Silvio Gonzalez The first institutionalised police force that came about in the modern world was in the UK, […]
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Pathos and paganism at the National Theatre
Theatre is magic. One moment you’re walking across Waterloo Bridge to the National Theatre with vistas of modern architecture on either side and then, having found your seat for its production of Brian Friel’s “Dancing at Lughnasa”, an idyllic Irish scene places you in another dimension. Sean Sheehan […]
Fixed mindset and authoritarianism
I recently received an email decrying people who were ‘fixated’ (possibly including this writer?). The writer of the email is a PhD (medical anthropology, London). She did not define what she meant. Except strong disapproval. What might a ‘fixated’ mind be? Why might it be so pathological? Une idée fixe? […]
Rethinking the link between diversity and oppression
They will never be equality, because all humans are different; this is an idea that is generally accepted in today’s society. Mabel Encinas However, the consequences of this diversity, are seen in different values and through a variety of actions. In other words, there are differences of perception […]
The woman and the city: unforgivable misogyny
The world was built on ‘machismo’ when it was said that God was a man. A concept from which Bogota never escaped: a warped city until it became a metropolis without a beginning or end, of which the Spanish conquistador arbitrarily changed the name, from Bacatá to Bogotá. . Armando […]
















