seanessay.com The progression goes: Most folks talk about people, fewer talk about things, fewer still talk about ideas. People David Gazard I see have some blog hits from Australia. In my late middle age, I am remembering: That’s where my university student newspaper editor, David Gazard, went to live. Turns out the “journalism ecology” there, […]
Making a Difference the Long Hard Way
seanessay.com Two posts ago I was remembering a prime minister’s plan for controlling “wages and prices.” Now I am again feeling middle aged. Down the decades, I have seen how individual writers, on the New York Times bestseller list, can indeed make a difference; it just it takes a while to impact the culture. It […]
Forsaking Freedom
seanessay.com Would I give up a year or two of my life, or ask a young man to do so, for the cause of freedom? Right now there are nations in Europe, not all of them in NATO, that enforce a year or two of conscription, what Americans loosely call “the draft.” I can see […]
New Century, Same Stupidity
seanessay.com I see that inflation, under Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, has suddenly become as bad as back when his father, Pierre Eliot Trudeau, was the PM in 1983. (He was PM from 1968-79, and 1980-84) What makes my middle age a pain, Is seeing stupidity come round again. It was during the fall of […]
Scandal of Schoolchildren Made to Write Mundane Essays
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Look Mum, a Local Culture
seanessay.com Despite being asked to join, I’ve never been on Facebook. Just as well, maybe, as now “they say” teenagers believe Facebook is for old people. I believe “they.” Besides, a teen in her final year of high school has, in passing, documented this fact in a prose article for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Madison […]