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Lies & Life

I don’t claim to have a deep understanding of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, or of the Israeli occupation of Palestine, but in reading The Social Contract I came upon a passage whose startling prescience speaks to the injustice of land stolen by states: Is it enough to put one’s feet on a piece of common land in [...]

I’m impressed. Let me explain

Life in the industrialized world is dangerous. We’ve built machines bigger than ourselves that have the capacity to hurt and kill us. Of course, accidents happen and tragically on January 28, an 86-year-old woman was killed after being hit by a bus in Mississauga. Although the tragedy of collision and accident should never be dishounoured [...]