The same is of course true of much in the modern world around us, of the information and the news we receive, which are always inevitably biased and coloured by somebody's agenda and, much as we can read between the lines, in the end you have to make a judgment for yourself on what you believe is true, but this will also carry its own bias and the baggage of personal prejudice and personal history, which may make more likely that you take one side or another on issues or distrust politicians or journalists or believe in them (or some of them) or think there was never a moon landing or that the reptilian overlords from outer space are already with us and living in Buckingham Palace Road (whatever happened to that Icke guy?) and whichever of those will seem perfectly reasonable to us but reason will only have played a small part (in some cases a very, very small part) in them.
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The same is of course true of much in the modern world around us, of the information and the news we receive, which are always inevitably biased and coloured by somebody's agenda and, much as we can read between the lines, in the end you have to make a judgment for yourself on what you believe is true, but this will also carry its own bias and the baggage of personal prejudice and personal history, which may make more likely that you take one side or another on issues or distrust politicians or journalists or believe in them (or some of them) or think there was never a moon landing or that the reptilian overlords from outer space are already with us and living in Buckingham Palace Road (whatever happened to that Icke guy?) and whichever of those will seem perfectly reasonable to us but reason will only have played a small part (in some cases a very, very small part) in them.
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a small update
Haven't been posting much as I've mostly been preoccupied with the coming quite major operation. They hammer into you everything that can go wrong…
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FB, WA, IG and the lives we live
I've been a bit worried on how much we depend on Zuck's apps for a while. Alas, the two branchs of my family (in Italy and in Venezuela), most of my…
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Leo Brouwer's 'Omaggio a Tárrega'.
Yes, it is the same thematic material he uses in 'Flight of the Lovers through the Valley of Echoes', second movement of 'Decamerón Negro'. More…
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