seanessay.com I come from a minority group where we take some pride and comfort in our clan, because the only time we see ourselves on TV is the Connor family and before that the Bunker family. Blue collar. But in popular television culture, even the Blacks are rich like the Huxtables and living in Bel […]
Ugly People and Unforeseen Populism
seanessay.com I wonder what the conspiracy-folks think of this November issue of The Atlantic. The one with a cover story of the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, General Mark Milley, who’s father served in the pacific during WWII. Milley had to try to rein in President Donald Trump. “The Donald” was clueless. Flip […]
Race in London, Repair and Remorse
seanessay.com This morning I was walking in London, once a city of commerce from slave trading. I won’t ask anyone, including me, to feel “white guilt.” There exists, to keep society healthy, a boundary called “the statute of limitations.” At the same time, as my favourite essayist noted, “Every healthy society must demand a little […]
Enjoying Imperialism Like Everybody Else
seanessay.com (over 1,000 words) Still in London, Where the museums of history and art are now explicitly non-racist and non-colonial For you and I, culture persists, AND, culture-wise, we individuals have free will. I’m thinking of imperialism and “male socio-economic class”-ism.” In a long ago college English class, when we took Earnest Hemingway, I said, […]
Olympic Dreams Gone With the Bigots
At the Tokyo Olympics, according to a CBC radio documentary, women athletes were discriminated against. Must history repeat? Can we learn? My younger self wrote about “equal rights” in my old blog, so here are patches of old essays. I can never forget her. She was a pretty biathlete who wanted to be an Olympian. […]
Cute Time and Space
seanessay.com In my Doctor Who Children’s Annual there was a drawing of Albert Einstein within a sidebar to explain space and time. The box read, (from memory) “There can be no space without time; there can be no time without space.” So every location is in space-time. I find it liberating to give respect to […]