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Stylish Violence

September 21, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

The period after the Great War was, for Europe at least, a time of great insecurity. Governments and gangsters both struggled to maintain order.

I zoomed as I shot the women.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: bbc, inequality, photos, tv

Laden Bin

July 23, 2020 by Simon Robinson 1 Comment

I know there are people out there who think that calling something a ‘first world’ problem is elitist. The real ethical dilemmas are often the reverse of the correction. Does a quota system that manages for inequality discriminate against those that formerly had the upper hand? Does labelling for first or third reinforce the stereotypes? Probably but what other language do we have?

Another Strange Gift – from my 2017 blog post Loops
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: consensus, Covid-19, dalkey, forty coats, inequality, irish times, recycling, tragedy

Where are all the Curies?

July 21, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

In a normal world, there are people who study deviations beyond the standard. There’s a conventional heuristic (rule of thumb) that our most significant interests fall within three standard deviations from the meanest of any measure.

I journaled here of a corporate presentation I titled ‘To 3σ and Beyond’. That, together with the opening paragraph today, are (bad) statistics-based jokes intended to refer to new learnings that may lurk within less than 6.7% of a range of products or data.

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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: 3-sigma, anna rosling rönnlund, bernard mandeville, booklink, education, gapminder, hans rosling, inequality, isaac newton, marie curie, photo, probability, virginia woolf

Persistent Ambiguity Persists

July 8, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Opening Ambiguity

Some might argue that the giant tech companies are the Viking hordes of today. Today’s shopfronts might be likened to the walls of monasteries, masking a profound sense of loss after everything of value has been carried off, repurposed to the benefit of others.

Some have warned for decades that the tech giants need to be regulated otherwise they’ll recreate the monopolies like those of the American railways in the nineteenth century. The analogies for today’s supply chains include fibre as rail track and the servers as locomotives. Platform versus content. Utility versus consumable.

Bathrooms in Opposition.
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Filed Under: Anchoritism Tagged With: blm, booklink, colonialism, colum mccann, game of thrones, inequality, ingrid burrington, monopoly, pandemic, photos, the atlantic, thomas packenham, timbuktu, walls

Ramblings

June 3, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

Jame Joyce thought that ‘Thought is the thought of thought’ or so he wrote in Ulysses which he started in 1914, at the beginning of The Great War, when people forgot to think and petty jealousies among Imperial cousins killed millions.

Rabindranath Tagore, while on a US tour in 1916, wrote that ‘You who live under the delusion that you are free, are every day sacrificing your freedom and humanity to this fetish of nationalism, living in the dense poisonous atmosphere of world-wide suspicion and greed and panic.’

  • James Joyce
  • Rabindranath Tagore
Writers in St Stephens Green, Dublin © Simon Robinson 2016
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Filed Under: Anchoritism, Fake Memoir Tagged With: booklink, Covid-19, guantanamo, inequality, james baldwin, jean-jacques rousseau, pankaj mishra, photos, sculpture

Inequality

March 8, 2020 by Simon Robinson Leave a Comment

8 Mar 2020 – noon GMT – 7°C Mostly Cloudy – Co. Longford, Ireland

Ireland had a general election recently. Moribund policies in discussion that brought about the election include housing, healthcare and pensions. The twelve-year economic recovery is not perceived as benefiting the majority of society that are working so hard to sustain it. And now an electorate desperate for change has voted into a position of strength a group that we suspected are run by an army council of shadow players.

However to focus on these issues is to miss a point. These issues may not be as important as one fundamental problem.

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Filed Under: ManRom2021 Tagged With: election, femen, inequality, walking, women's day

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