I’ve found online and public dialogues are never as transformative for the dialogue partners as these private ones. When your conversation is being watched by the masses, you tend not to really answer the dialogue partner—you take a stance you want the world to see. — Timothy Keller
What I do doubt in the approaching and already apparent success of the Free Press is its power to effect democratic reform. It will succeed at last in getting the truth told pretty openly and pretty thoroughly. It will break down the barrier between the little governing clique in which the truth is cynically admitted […]
For we must remember that the professional politicians all stand in together when a financial swindle is being carried out. There is no “opposition” in these things. — Hilaire Belloc, The Free Press
A couple of new videos on Vita Aquatica. I usually don’t comment on them, just go with their original titles and descriptions. However, I cannot resist to comment on the new Blue World video by Jonathan Bird and his crew. It’s so cool. Anybody can dive like that. Shallow depth so long bottom time and no […]
New videos on Vita Aquatica, dedicated to the French pioneers of diving and a legend of underwater filming.
These processes filling the last three hundred years have been as follows: (1) A rapid extension of physical science and with it of every other form of acquaintance with demonstrable and measurable things. (2) The rise, chiefly in the new Protestant part of Europe (but spreading thence in part to the Catholic) of what we […]