Sunday, February 02, 2025

The last of Europe's Stone Age races: Finland and Ireland

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Life takes us to unpredictable places - it took me to studying ancient Irish history in dusty libraries and archives of Helsinki. And then t...
Wednesday, January 01, 2025

In praise of Kevin Drum

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 If there is an antithesis to this feverish, irrational, fastly regressing era - it is this man: Kevin Drum Rational, measured, judicious, e...
Saturday, December 28, 2024

The long views, the short moments

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A particularly lovely evening yesterday in particularly lovely company - we live in dark times, and in all honesty times have always been da...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

Mark Knopfler playing the guitar

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The long views: art, friendship, love, the pursuit of understanding. We will always overstate our ridiculously brief moment in time: our bri...
Saturday, November 23, 2024

I did not plan for this

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It all went horribly wrong before I even had formulated the mere concept of planning, of control - a perfect storm of circumstances and sens...
Saturday, November 09, 2024

The example of Keynes

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He basically lived in the worst of times, with the worst of contrasts between his youth and his adulthood, leaping not like a swimmer into c...
Friday, November 08, 2024

Slouching towards Jerusalem

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The corrosive effect of the ever increasingly liberalistic global capitalism is very hard to underestimate in these bleak times. The magical...
Wednesday, November 06, 2024

The shining city on a hill spewing sewage

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The end of the American Dream - or at least the part of it that fought out of slavery and apartheid and rescued the Western civilization thr...
Tuesday, October 22, 2024

The gradual fading away of Christian-Humanist values

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Not the best opium for the people really. In these increasingly cold, increasingly materialistic times the traditional Western values won...
Wednesday, September 25, 2024

I lived by the river

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London calling to far away cities - and even to remote Ostrobothnian villages as I have described here. Me with my lousy shortwave receiving...
Sunday, August 18, 2024

There's nothing wrong with the look that's on her eyes

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Separating sex from love needs experience, and re-uniting them needs maybe even more experience... These matters are so hard and we so often...
Friday, August 09, 2024

I will not cease from mental fight

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A perfect Pietist hymn too, so fitting to my background and heritage. And actually the very same nonconformist heritage as Blake's, just...
Saturday, July 27, 2024

I was such an idiot

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Being otherwise pretty smart these days, crazily well read and pretty well thought and lived. But I did brutally waste my youth in burning, ...
Monday, June 24, 2024

Kodu kui majakas

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My estophilia was consciously awakened by Jaan Kross:  Keisri hull  in its Finnish translation was such a text, such a call for defiance, fo...
Wednesday, May 01, 2024

The centre not holding

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All over the West internal strife, atavistic hatreds and prejudices reviving, partying it's like the 1930's back again. The vaccinat...