Welcome

"Did the morning sunlight warm your soul, brighten up your day?"

     Ray Stevens

"But, we had the Beatles"

     Caroline

Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no intrinsic meaning or value.

     Ronald

"It is you who I wish to share my body with, she said"

    Steven Demetre Georgiou
    (Cat Stevens)

"The Scientific Tool is the greatest of man's inventions."

      Anon

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, (religion) but not his own facts, (science).

      Daniel Patrick Moynihan

“Man will never be free until the last king is straggled by the entrails of the last priest”

      Denis Diderot

“I will keep on breathing, tomorrow the sun will come up, who knows what the tide will bring?”

      Tom Hanks

The idea that GDP growth is a poor measurement of a nation’s success is not new. Whilst standing for US President Robert F Kennedy said: “Gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages, the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country, it measures everything in short, except that which makes life worthwhile."

      Robert F Kennedy

Creating money is the way all government gets things done

Tax is the way all government prevents inflation and influences behaviour

You then simply have to decide whether you want that government to be kind to people or cruel to people

      anon

"Eppur si muove" (Yet it does move) - Galileo Galilei's words on leaving the inquisition after being forced to recant his statement "The astronomical language of the bible was designed for the comprehension of the ignorant."

And here's to the fools who dream
Crazy as they may seem
Here's to the hearts that break
Here's to the mess we make

Emma Stone, Audition (La La Land)

Live now because the future of humanity on the planet looks bleak indeed. The two driving forces of population explosion and the economic theory of growth (based on the capitalistic basis of human greed) is set to do us in as the planet warms, getting rid of us and the vast majority of other species living on her.

To send me e-mail try brian at rees dot ch.

Now officially a member of the *precariat* and an existential nihilist.

I want to be young and have warm weather - sadly one of those is long gone.

And finally: "Don't forget to be kind."