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Category Archives: Politics
National Pride
As Arthur Schopenhauer wrote in Parerga und Paralipomena: On the other hand, the cheapest form of pride is national pride; for the man affected therewith betrays a want of individual qualities of which he might be proud, since he would not … Continue reading
The end of Gary Johnson
Even worse than not knowing a city that has been in the news for the past five years (and a city so famous and historically important that you might have heard of it in high school) is the naive suggestion that … Continue reading
War and Peace
In his autobiography My Early Life, which concluded the time before World War I and was published before World War II, Winston Churchill takes this lesson from the Boer Wars: Let us learn our lessons. Never, never, never believe any war will be … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Military, Politics, UK
Tagged Churchill, peace, South Africa, war, Winston Churchill
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Money in Politics
In his autobiography My Early Life: A Roving Commission, Winston Churchill recounts his first attempt to run for a seat in the House of Commons, the democratic half of the British Parliament. Early in November [1898] I paid a visit … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Economics, History, Politics, UK
Tagged Churchill, money, Winston Churchill
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Donald Trump and Adolf Hitler
After Donald Trumps’s speech at the Republican National Convention, I made this joke, inspired both by the plagiarism in the current Mrs Trumps’ speech and by the speech itself: As with all my other Donald Trump jokes however, it turned out … Continue reading
Posted in Books, History, Politics, USA
Tagged Adolf Hitler, Donald Trump, German history, Hitler, Nazis
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When Voting, remember this Caveat
From Donald Trump’s book – or to be precise: Tony Schwartz‘s book with a photo of Donald Trump on the cover – The Art of the Deal: “There are no guarantees,” warns the man who keeps shouting “Believe me!”
Humility
It seems that there is a new definition of humility, which sounds like this and looks like this. But then, for a candidate who makes up his own “facts”, pulls out random numbers, changes them the next day and again … Continue reading
Sea Surveillance
Even on a boat in the middle of the Atlantic, you are being watched.
Posted in Philosophy, Photography, Politics, Travel
Tagged Atlantic, cruise, surveillance
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Boris Johnson’s take on Diplomacy
The new UK Foreign Secretary:
The Happy Hermit 