seanessay.com “Remember kids, nobody brave or honest believes anything the Kremlin says… Unlike the Russians, even the boy who cried wolf at least told the truth once.” Today, I quote someone with more soul than I. He was in the peacetime German army, when Germany was a democracy, and later fought for Kosovo’s freedom against […]
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 […]
Sanctions and Controversy
seanessay.com Today western powers still can’t supply Ukraine—will they ever?—with enough artillery, while Russia is still slowly advancing, towns are still falling. This while sanctions, both in the 20th century and against Russia today, are still controversial. In our sanctions, should we “draw a line” to protect the innocent? There may be controversy over whether […]
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, […]
Anti Autocracy British Museum Beer Musings
seanessay.com If I wanted to have profound thoughts then I would relax with fine British tea, perhaps by a fireplace. Instead I’m only having beer thoughts tonight, within a real English pub: I know it’s real because it has a blue heritage plaque inside. The music is like from my parent’s day. So nice. Pubs […]