seanessay.com The term “moon shot,” back when most rocket engines exploded (seriously), was once a slang term for something as nearly impossible as completing a Hail Mary (Project) pass in football. As I write this, the Artemis II , far beyond the space station, is speeding around the moon with not “the usual three astronauts” […]
A Grey Communist On Easter Sunday
seanessay.com My old communist friend would, I think, relate to my favourite Easter “glimpse.” Even while reciting “religion is the opium of the people” he would know that if the revolution is for anybody, then it’s for everybody. Our religious comrades are part of the whole package. Of course a Marxist can be religious. I […]
I, Landlord
seanessay.com I am a landlord. I smiled as Chief Engineer Pelia on the starship Enterprise said, “I still have a bunker in Vermont, where I used to live, in case this no-money-socialist-utopia thing turns out to be a fad.” No landlords on Star Trek. … At age 17, escaping to the big city on my […]
On Being Both Anti-Communist and Anti-Covid
seanessay.com I wrote to my member of parliament: Not a rant, but a short calm letter. It’s queer. You might expect conservatives to be against communism—but once a right wing person becomes an autocrat, say in Eastern Europe, then he leans towards Russia and other fellow despots. You might expect “progressive” liberals to be against […]
Some Cultures are More Equal than Others: Judging Moscow
seanessay.com Prologue Canada’s most famous liberal led the liberal Members of Parliament out of the room when the House of Commons was about to vote on whether the Chinese communist government was committing genocide. Under that prime minister’s watch, Canada has yet to erect a controversial memorial to the victims of communism… Maybe being fed […]
Free Fall in Ukraine
seanessay.com A fellow writer had no idea civilians refer to the Russian soldiers as Orcs. Ukraine must be on my mind, because in Free Fall Friday class I did two fiction pieces about civil engineers there, and then a parent’s musing. Here’s the musing. Prompt- shadows There is a shadow on my land. When I […]