What is a 'meme'? Well, despite common usage, it is not some 'trending' internet social media post, tweet or other widely spread catchy idea. Such phenomena do not meet the defined concept of 'meme' in that they are usually not naturally evolving but being affected by interaction to alter or expand the original meme concept... Continue Reading →
’15 Minute Living Circles’ -This is the Future …and it is led by China. Who Will Follow?
'China unveils plan for 15-min "living circles" in cities' - Xinhuanet - July 12, 2023 All the best ideas seem to emerge from China. I have seen this one officially announced only by that one nation. A nation that is already a world leader in so many ways. Yes, Russia may currently be technologically superior... Continue Reading →
Western Society’s “Intellectual Shanty Towns”
What could I say that properly reflects what I see today? Well, there are many things - but I tire of the specifics. There are too many of them, and speaking of all of those things is too soul-destroying. In any case, what good would such effort achieve? I think this explains to some extent... Continue Reading →
US Wonderwaffles? It’s a Giggle, Really.
There is an interesting and very relevant article written by Kirill Strelnikov yesterday and published by RIA Novesti. The reason I am sharing it here is somehow connected to because I think the whole world should know about his use of the term 'US Wonderwaffles'. A first encounter, at least for me. Unfortunately, the English... Continue Reading →
Russia Now United as Perhaps Never Before
You could say, and you would be right, that Russia needed the Wagner 'Intervention' of the 24-25 June. Whether planned or from somewhere out-of-the-blue, it has brought a great change in Russia. A change that may not yet be fully understood but a change that has brought Russians together and infused the nation with a... Continue Reading →
Andrew Korybko is Wrong… Doubly Wrong
You may or may not know of Andrew Korybko but I felt justified in using his name in the title line of this piece because the guy has so incensed me. I had no intention of writing tonight - being content to let matters of global importance ride along as they will until a clearer... Continue Reading →
Motherland and/or Fatherland?
Throughout life there are moments, precious moments, meaningful moments, where some question - the answer to which has remained fuzzily but not entirely defined in the back of our mind, perhaps for many years - is suddenly made clear by some revealing but unplanned event. Such revelations remain fixed, perhaps as sweet moments, long remembered.... Continue Reading →
“Fuck Them,” said Mr Putin,
...but no-one seems to have noticed - or may have interpreted the unmistakable summary dismissal as some bland and totally incorrect but more polite alternative. During the moderator's question time following what was Mr Putin's longest ever, and perhaps most important speech, at this year's SPIEF (I point out specifically that this was not part... Continue Reading →
The Solidity of Russian Victory
I want to endorse today an article fresh from William Schryver's imetatronink blog. Schryver does not flood the world of many babbling voices swirling around the edges and quickly disappearing with a momentary flash into the black hole which is the graveyard of opinions, public and private, on the all-important conflict, of global significance, currently... Continue Reading →
Not Something Else 