atomic apes

the unembarrassed chest-thumping of nations' leaders and their passive masses about possessing -- or wanting to -- nuclear weapons, should be recognized clearly as a terrifying fact of gnothi seauton.

mirror mirror...

is mankind ever not looking into a mirror?

an unserious creature

there will now be a constant presence of scores of reporters and cameras to follow the pregnancy of the Duchess of Cambridge, but what of eg Fukushima Japan, which is infinitely more important...

sleep walking in the ruins...

surviving on the remnants...
of for example months, 7-day weeks of 5 + 2, the year...
barely-believed beliefs and their holidays...
not waking to ask questions...

agnothi seauton?

which better describes the human being's tendency: gnothi seauton or agnothi seauton?