> This is the era of “infotainment,” egregious public lies, corrosive cynicism, scientific fundamentalism, the barbaric functionalizing of education, and the Balkanization of public argument.

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-brain-of-two-minds-on-iain-mcgilchrists-the-matter-with-things/

(When your science book gets reviewed by the former Archbishop of Canterbury, who, conveniently, is a polymathic genius...)

Bond girls are out and Blanc girls are in (as heroes). Their qualities...

1) They have low-key jobs that help people,
2) They're not there as arm candy or a love interest,
3) They're smart and resourceful, and
4) They have a lot going on just now.

#GlassOnion #KnivesOut #Blanc

> Good men are men still liable to mistakes and are sometimes warmly engaged in errors, which they take for divine truths, shining in their minds with the clearest light. (John Locke, 1690)

Reflecting on #Liberalism...

The passing of #JohnBird this week has me revisiting his show #AbsolutePower, in which he played one of the principals of the most amoral PR agency to ever exist. (Stephen Fry played the other.) Incredible comedy. Here's a clip where they discover their über-rich new clients are literal Nazis, which is only enhanced by knowing some of Fry's family history....

https://youtu.be/nZfsIzNkBZs