Generals at totalitarian rallies look like clowns.
Autocrats twist the rightful love of community into grotesque, violent delusion.
Contorted minds create hell on earth.
Non-fungible performances interest me. I’m thinking of issuing a few.
Kierkegaard’s romance with Regine Olsen would make a good dramatisation.
Ferocity and love as a combination captivates people, especially when sincere.
Invest where people who know what they are doing put their own capital. Or better still, invest in them. If you believe in what they are doing and you believe in them, then you have found the perfect combination.
Products and services improve when the providers are also keen users.
Trying to look older would mean experience is valued over the skin-deep.
Schools teach children to fit into a uniform.
Inflexibility often manifests in people who believe that whatever they think determines external reality.
Doing nothing isn’t preferable.
Notice. Are you able to describe the person you just talked to? Or the room you were just in? Or even the object in your hand? Do you notice what you are doing?
To be offended is to be wrong. Nasty behaviour thrown in your direction isn’t condoned, you might choose to respond, but why should their words actually harm you?
Many thirst in the desert of shiny things.
The accumulation effect of small moments can be enormous.
The challenge is to release what is within you, uncorrupted by falsity and lies.
Regardless of whether you think you are succeeding or failing, you must not ease up, in any respect, because events always happen.
For sure it is smart to learn from the experience of others, but the lessons can be more thoroughly learnt if you make the mistakes yourself.
I love that moment of bafflement when a person is looking at you and thinking “what the?” It usually ends in either awkward or full laughter.
If nervous or stressed about doing something, say to yourself “I’ll be dead soon” and do it anyway.
I think psychopaths don’t understand that threats have no effect on people who are truly pissed off. There is no room for fear when a person is angered, only destruction.
An empowered society creates and innovates. Empowered authoritarians corrupt and suffocate.
Work journals help elucidate what is happening and why.
An important question to ask one’s own thoughts is, “Who is talking?” Now you know, do you want to let that voice speak? A human does not have one identity, or set of impulses.
My logic reasons that I should be Agnostic, but belief in “God” is embedded in me, even though I can’t define what that word means.
Fall in love with doing. Love to do and you will have the energy to do it.
Comfort is for snoozing not moving.
Freedom provides the opportunity to create.
Curiosity initiates understanding and invention.
What do you have to say? Experience. Think and write. Then say, entertainingly.
Art happens when imagination and reality are one.
Difference has a cost and the highest return.
An algorithm, a method, is enormously powerful when perfectly applied.
I sincerely hope we are able to spread humanity rather than psychopathy onto other planets.
I used to grumble about wind turbines but now I’ve changed my mind. In my mind they’ve become monuments standing tall in all weather against humanity’s primitive past. It doesn’t matter how cloudy the skies, the arms will turn.
A debate is just gladiatorial spectacle, but a discussion should be a real-time exchange of thinking, with new ideas developed together as an outcome. Written bullet points provide more time for the receiver to think through the issues.
For me at least, the television has been replaced for news and entertainment by phone apps. The zombification factor is lower if there is more interaction and dynamic content.
Anyone who likes me has excellent taste.
I don’t mind monotonous chores when listening to podcasts or audiobooks. I press pause when I need to think about what I’m doing.
Nazism was obviously an evil period of German history, and after its utter defeat, one for which subsequent generations in Germany completely rejected. Whether the scales will fall suddenly from the eyes of people living in Fascist Russia, I don’t know.
I admire many Russian artists of prior periods, the list is too long to include here, but art is often a reaction to its society – where the human spirit is able to shine through the pain of its subjugation.
Fascism suffocates life under its fetid blanket of corruption and deception, producing only missiles and murderers.
To an English speaker, “Putin” sounds like “Poo tin” (a tin of poo). The pathetically unimaginative letter Z as a symbol looks like a swastika and reminds of naZi. Invading a sovereign country with tanks, murderers and rapists reminds the free world of the barbarity we thought had long disappeared from Europe.
Ireland speaks English, but if they want to dump it and speak only Irish, then good for them. If they don’t, then good for them too. But the thing about sovereign countries is that such decisions are up to the people who live there.
Being consigned to the poo tin of history means being forgotten about with great relief.
Soviet Union 2.0 is the crappiest sequel ever, where every word is a lie and every action is bad counterfeit copy.
I happened to walk past a couple of houses in Colchester that usually have the Union Jack flying atop a flagpole in their gardens. Both homes are now instead flying the Ukrainian flag.
It’s easy to stamp on a flower, yet some mistake this for greatness and spend their time destroying and threatening to destroy life’s creations. To the evolving world, this is deeply pathetic.
Psychopaths are psychopaths. Their admirers and enablers make them happen.
From a writing and performing perspective, professionally besuited politicians poorly deliver banal regurgitated lines, without due regard to substance, the power of metaphor, or any higher appeal to the inspirations of the human heart.
The sickly glare from the darkness is its most pernicious when pretending to be the light.
Your choice now of the inputs that influence you determines your outcomes.
Every day is a new creation.
Dear Tech, please help end the twin abominations of disinformation and misinformation.
Input plus something equals output. Usually the inputs are easier to change.
As much as we would like to find some deeper nuance and subtlety, some people do behave like cartoonish one-dimensional characters.
Do Until Win (Pain, Learn, Adapt).
Liking yourself is a good choice.
Robert Walker 