DEAR EDITOR – DO YOU KNOW HOW WE’RE GOING TO SAVE THE WORLD?
There’s a growing number of raised voices decrying the way the world is going - polemics and climate disaster and…
COGNITIVE DISSONANCE RESISTS TRUTH, FACT AND EVEN MORAL CONSISTENCY. HOW?
Society is polarised but this is nothing new. What's new is the way the widespread availability of facts and truths…
THE HUMAN CONDITION – LAZINESS YIN NEUROTIC YANG
Tamsin spends an evening with her dogs trying her hand at psychology / philosophy. She wonders about the way hypocrisy…
A BRAIN IN PERFECT BALANCE IS A MIND IN COMA
The data seems to suggest most human beings are “on the spectrum” - which was unexpected - but likewise most…
IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HISTORY AND HISTORICAL FICTION?
These days it seems like the story you tell yourself means more than what’s true. Is this a problem? Isn’t…
HELP! HELP! DO YOU HEAR THE NEWS? THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING!
Tamsin isn’t interested in more useless dead-end stories and in this ‘long read’ she presents her conclusion that all the…
RESPONSE: “DARK TOURIST” A NETFLIX TRAVELOGUE (2018)
Tamsin is a consumer of Netflix content and travel shows, stumbling on “Dark Tourist” in 2018. Here she writes up…
SOCIAL MEDIA MAKES US CANNON FODDER FOR PERPETUAL HYPERNORMALISATION BULLSHIT
Tamsin writes about the atomisation of society into in-group echo chambers, rallying behind some flag or demagogue or slogan, and…
CAN IDEOLOGY SURVIVE IN THE CONSUMER CAPITALISM WORLD?
Tamsin writes about the appropriation of ideology by corporate capitalism, manipulating sincere important paradigms into mere vehicles for delivering sales…
“ARE WE LIVING IN A SIMULATION?” ASKS THE ZEITGEIST
It’s fashionable lately to point out we might be living in a simulation of a universe inside some future super…