Year: 2022
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Now is the Winter …
“Now is the winter of our discontent…” William Shakespeare, Richard III, Act-I, Scene-I, Line 1 This scourge has carried on for two years, through what feels like a never-ending cycle of lockdowns and isolation, through…
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Isolation
In an earlier post, I assembled a selection of dots connecting an increase in social isolation and certain trends in technology adoption propelled by our tendency to privilege left-brain thinking. Some have noted this trend…
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Automation and Instrumentation
In his book on history and technology, Connections, author James Burke quipped “If the Normans didn’t have stirrups we’d all be speaking Anglo-Saxon”. His point was how the introduction of technology influences the outcome of events,…
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Trucker Protests – Appropriations
The single protest, beginning just a few weeks ago with cross-country convoys starting on each of the east and west coasts converging on Ottawa, has metastasized across this country to Toronto, Fredericton, Quebec City, and…
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Terrorist Truckers Assault the Hub of Canada’s Democracy at Queen’s Park
Saturday, February 5th, 2022 – Toronto: Successfully breeching the Toronto Police Force’s “big fence” of police cars and event buses by disguising themselves as women, children, babies in carriages, hipsters, Trump supporters, conspiracy theorists and…