The Zappeion
My world today a park’s iron bench
Of strips wrought into circles with
Wide gaps between, the pine grown through,
And kept well-trimmed, is like a top’s
Extended handle Zeus pumps with,
Invisibly, spinning the whole
As fast as earth to keep me safe.
But housed next door in ruins, his
Once monumental temple built
By Hadrian, he might decide,
Piqued by our long neglect, to rest
His hand and fling me to the wolves.
It seems the cardinal virtue in the modern Christianity is no longer charity, nor even faith and hope, but an inoffensive prudence
Oct 13 2024
4 mins
Many will disagree, but World War III is too great a risk to run by involving ourselves in a distant border conflict
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5 mins
To claim Aborigines have the world's oldest continuous culture is to misunderstand the meaning of culture, which continuously changes over time and location. For a culture not to change over time would be a reproach and certainly not a cause for celebration, for it would indicate that there had been no capacity to adapt. Clearly this has not been the case
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23 mins