I browsed through numerous posts and articles saying that Brexit and Trump are linked. It is resurgence, they said, of the conservative right, and a slap in the face of the liberal right. Some were gloating, and others reeked of despair. It was clear that some were Conservatives. Others were Liberals. But what kind of […]
Category: Rational ruminations
Doing what I don’t like
Another of my attempts at giving advice to young medical students. I cannot run away. They want me to. What can one do but oblige…….. Remember……they asked for it. In the film ‘Pretty woman’ , Richard Gere’s billionaire character asks the character of Julia Roberts, a prostitute: “What all do you do?” “I do […]
The importance of knowing what we don’t know
We speak of the hegemony of the west. After the British left us, there is the cultural tsunami that cannot be eradicated. We wear western clothes. We drive modern vehicles that are the cultural relic of a process that started with the steam engine, the internal combustion engine, James Watt and Nicolai Tesla. We talk […]
What we learn- and teach
When I moved my razor blade across the expanse above my upper lip today morning, my mind flew, as minds occasionally do, to a time when this procedure was not needed. I used to apply an oil to make my moustache grow. That was the time I became a voluntary prisoner in a concentration camp- […]
Ideology- Tales that thrill- and kill
A venerable old official sleeps at a meeting. The Dictator orders him killed. It is interesting to think that the Dictator was originally part of a plan for the salvation of all mankind- a plan for an equal and just society. Let us go back a few years. At a meeting to felicitate Stalin, as […]