History

English

Propaganza part ii

PG18 – Thoughts on moral evils in this world that some people would rather have us forget…
Written in a Rap style.

English

My Royal Darlings

I have been struggling to get my head around why the Chinese have no moral integrity and are seemingly only too happy to blatantly rip off the world’s intellectual property. I think I may have discovered an answer in the form of the British Opium wars. The Chinese lost Hong Kong as a result, and only regained full control in 2021. I don’t think they have ever forgotten and I’m pretty sure they haven’t forgiven either.
Jus’ sayin’

Afrikaans

Deana

A man goes looking for his house servant but then finds her daughter and suddenly he sees her in a new, grown-up light and decides to exercise his ownership over her – as the racist colonizers once did – and it goes wrong. Very wrong.

English, Zulu

Verbosity

Inkanyamba refers to mythical water monsters living in dams and rivers in Eswatini and elsewhere in Southern Africa where they are known by many names. I learned about them while camping on the bank of Maguga Dam in Eswatini…

English

Life eats life eats life eats life…

I grasped the universe-wide concept of Ouroboros at the tender age of about 10 or 11, with the understanding of reality popping into existence and then consuming itself before doing it all again.
Already at that age I understood Mark Twain when he said that he had been dead for millions of years before being born and it didn’t affect him in the least, just as his inevitable passing would not affect him again.

English

Slash

Our pale blue dot, zoomed in to the corrugations on its dirt roads.

English

Machines for the thinking

I’m not a fan of the digital monkeys that are being made to replace us all. But it is what it is and I haven’t stood back for any of life’s tests yet.

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