Observations on the world and its inhabitants
For more than a decade, the public conversation about Mars has been shaped by a powerful narrative: that humanity is on the verge of becoming a multiplanetary species, and that a crewed mission to Mars is only a few years away. The most influential voice behind this belief is Elon Musk, who continues to assert ...
It’s more than enough to ‘do your head in’ but as a developing creative writer of Sci-Fi metafictional scenarios, many posts on this blog will present ‘alterations of reality’ for higher purposes. My sojourn into metafiction started with by first novella: The Kael’Nyrin Scrolls: Our Children of Starlight. This will expand into two other books: ...
Headlines often proclaim that rising business rates are “killing the high street,” forcing businesses to close their doors. This narrative frames the tax as a singular, destructive force responsible for the decline of retail and the loss of jobs. While business rates are a significant financial pressure, a deeper economic analysis reveals a more complex ...
Following on from August 2023, when I said ‘I’m an Uber driver‘, another situation arose today around 19:15PM. I am obviously not in control over what people may perceive and then draw a probable interference. Something about my appearance or that taken together with the colour or shape or model of my car, led to ...
Again this exploration is motivated by what I see on social media platforms. I often read or hear, “The fact is… (blah blah)..”. But what does that mean? What does fact mean? What do people mean when they refer to ‘fact‘? Of course I’ve not been able to directly quiz those who assert their ‘facts‘. ...
As some will not know, perception, truth, reality, decision-making and related things have occupied me a lot on this blog. Why this post today? I’ve been trying to work out how some people perceive me to be nice, and others perceive me to be arrogant, condescending, patronising and narcissistic. People see different sides of me ...
In other places in this blog I’ve written about the problems of perception. I had said that people take what’s in their heads as reality. Of course, ‘people’ wouldn’t have liked that because they think that they know that ideas are not real. But actions speak louder than words. In too many instances I’ve seen ...
If you’re looking for a lecture on ‘post-truth’, stop – then move on quickly to avoid wasting your time! I’ve been reading around the concept of post-truth for some time. I made passing mention of it here on 25th December 2019. There are several books on the topic, out there. I recently came across Lee ...
I’m obviously on a roll, with the topic of reality. From mid-June I’ve looked at various aspects of ‘reality’ from psychological and philosophical perspectives. Tough – I’m not providing links to those posts. What – everybody wants to be spoon fed. It ain’t happening! So – in the last week I’ve also been looking at ...
Reality is a topic I’ve visited before on this blog. However, having searched the site I find that I have not explored ‘why reality is a hard place’. A few days ago I explored the blur between fantasy and reality. In that post I explained how I saw reality. So, I won’t go over that. ...
Right – so I don’t really know exactly why I come up with topics like these. It is probably about ‘stuff’ that I’ve come across and have been thinking about for some time. Then something happens and I get some sort of inspiration to write. So, with the recent warm patch of weather I was ...
This morning I’m moved by a very introspective and investigative-of-the-human-condition blog – or so I see it. See: Remembering Cobain. [And to be 200% clear I am not saying that the author wrote the blog with the angle that I see it, even if my perception is co-incidentally correct. This particular post comes with a ...
It’s an amazing age of the internet; the greatest time to be alive and to make one’s presence known – but.. but..these are dangerous times!! If you get your image or personal details out there on the internet, bad things will happen to you. People will find you, harass you, stalk you, send you stuff ...
Captain Walker
Captain Walker
