“Why is new always better? Why is smaller more desirable? Why is technology so soulless? Why should it not be fun and beautiful and individual? Why must it always look forwards, never backwards?”

HULGER | http://www.hulger.com

Momus was the Greek god of blame and mockery.

Horme (pronounced hor-mee) in Jungian psychology, is the fundamental, vital energy and impulse

“You are a fragment torn from God” – Epictetus

“Forgive. Men are men. They needs must err.” – Euripides

“A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.” – Joseph Conrad

“Insignificant mortals, who are as leaves are, and now flourish and grow warm with life, and feed on what the ground gives, but then fade away and are dead.” Homer, IX BC

“We are such stuff as dreams are made on, and our little life is rounded with a sleep.” – Shakespeare, The Tempest

 

Why are you so full of heaviness, O my soul, 
and why are you so disquieted within me?

FROM PSALM 43

… does it have large, heavy wings like a Hadada Ibis, with its ancient and forlorn cry, or is it as quick, bright and colourful as a Crested Barbet? Perhaps it is as silly as a guinea fowl, or does it watch us from unseen heights like a hawk it’s prey? Does it chatter like a plover in frantic flight or coo with the soft, velvety sound of a turtledove? Time flies … but to where, and from where?

A valuable essay on the ambiguities within political movements:

Leftist tropes and right-wing rhetoric coexist

By Richard Pithouse 02 Mar 2017

“There is always contestation in struggle. Critique is a permanent obligation.”

https://mg.co.za/article/2017-03-02-00-leftist-tropes-and-right-wing-rhetoric-coexist