A Mundane Comedy is Dominic Kelleher's new book, which will be published in mid 2024. The introduction is available here and further extracts will appear on this site and on social media in the coming months.
Identity
What's Changing? - Identity
Halcyon Identifies
10 January 2024
Please see below selected recent identity-related change.
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March 2024
On Xenophilia
Halcyon In Kal…
25 November 2022
During dark days of worsening refugee crises and increasing populism, can we still imagine reaching a state of "xenophilia"...overcoming our "homophily", i.e. the love of that which is like us, and reaching the love of that which is different?
Indeed, if we're ever going to care enough about conflict, genocide, poverty, hunger etc. enough to act on them properly, then we need to try much harder to avoid conflict with people we might not yet fully understand.
On Ipswich Town
God @TheTweetOfGod 8h8 hours ago
90% of My time is spent adversely affecting the fortunes of your favourite team.
On (re-)unification
The Berlin Wall stood for a total of 10,316 days, and as of February 2018, had been down for the same length of time. And yet still, more than half of Germans feel that their country hasn’t fully reunified.
On Martin Luther King
Inspiring the world for 50 years and counting...more than half a century since Dr King spoke, and still as powerful and relevant as ever...
In a tribute programme from the BBC, global figures celebrated the legacy of Dr King by reading the words of "I Have a Dream".
On Humankind
According to Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, which spans the whole of human history, from the very first humans to walk the earth to the radical - and sometimes devastating - breakthroughs of the cognitive, agricultural and scientific revolutions:
Quote 2492
The state is a condition, a certain relationship between human beings, a mode of behaviour- we destroy it by contracting other relationships, by behaving differently toward one another....We are the state, and we shall continue to be the state until we have created the institutions that form a real community and society of men - Gustav Landauer, Schwache Stattsmanner, Schwacheres Volk!, June, 1910 http://web.archive.org/web/20071020051936/http://iq.org/
Quote 2487
Don't let your struggle become your identity - Ralston Bowles (born 1952)- American musician
Quote 2493
The way I am and the way I write are a unity All my ideas and all my endeavours are myself - Memories, Dreams and Reflections, Flamingo edition 1989, p14