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First the United Kingdom, then the United States of America, and now, France and Germany are having their general elections, the outcomes of which will have major significance for the fate of all of these countries and the world. The outcomes of the elections in France and Germany, as they have been in the United Kingdom and the United States, are intended to determine the legal and political legitimacy of which parties or parties should form their government.  For the next several years, by virtue of the fact that they are able to claim that,  it is the will of the common people that they be ruled by them. And yet, there is increasing evidence in many countries, that this  claim to be being governed by the will of the people , is increasingly loosing its legitimacy.   The first past the post version of 'democracy' is continuing to provide some very undesirable outcomes in general elections, in those countries which use this form of electoral system to chose which

Men, in response to their own allopecia or hair loss,  have now taken to shaving their heads when they are going bald. So, is it about time that society allows, supports and enable women to do the same? Make women feel that they have permission to go hairless like their men?  Do women have to be perceived as being less valuable, less sexually appealing and desirable if they do not have hair on their heads? What has hair got to do with it, if considered outside of the context of the myth of hair having everything to do with it? Is it time for the advertising industry, the film industry to begin to use 'sexy bald' women in their ads and their films, to begin to breakdown the 'myth' that women have to have hair to have 'sex appeal' and to be feminine?   Which film maker and advertising company is courageous and pioneering enough to begin to think outside of the box, by making an add with bald as well as women with hair? We know that having or n

However, when we say, all the nation's citizens are 'equal' and should be treated 'fairly', that requires even more elaboration and analysis. If we say, all the nation's citizens should be treated with respect and human dignity, and that they should be assisted in getting jobs and having a habitable home in which to live. That all children should be provided with good quality schools to attend, then, we are speaking with the specificity which we can all understand. Of course, saying what are the 'fairness' and 'equality' outcomes we desire, still leaves us with the the more onerous challenges of making them a reality. How is society to ensure that all its citizens have habitable homes in which to live? That its children have good schools to attend, and that its citizens of working age have jobs which they can carry out safely, in order to earn a liveable wage?  It is clear that 'society' cannot, of or by itself, provi

Men, like women, are prisoners of our societies, and are therefore positively and negatively impacted by societal myths and self-evident 'truths.' history, which contains both truths, lies and myths, and contemporary media, have conditioned men and women into what is the nature of the 'ideal man' and the 'ideal woman.'  And we, who constitute society, have, probably imperceptibly but definitely, been internalising and validating these notions by our actions. Thereby making the 'myth', probably the reality. Like real life mimicking fiction or, yes, 'myth', as it were. And so have we come to give great importance to a woman's hair being or should be a thing of great beauty. Something which makes her fellow women jealous of her and which makes her most desired by men, if I might give effect to a bit of romanticism. And that is not all, a woman's hair can be like any of other her essential organs or features.  A woman losing

The point I wish to make, however, why people should not sheepishly submit to the 'democratic will' of the people.  Is that we have seen how the majority - being it around racial and ethnic divisions, tribal divisions, or religious divisions, can easily use this argument or system to try to 'justify' their oppression of the minority groups, however substantial they are.  We have seen, e.g. how 'the will of the white majority in the old South, had willed it that black Americans should be lynched and oppressed.' With these considerations in mind, it is great that there are now millions of insightful and courageous American patriots who are forcefully and intelligently organising and expressing their concerted opposition to the Trumpists and their Trumpist policies.  They are doing so on the streets of American, in the institutions of education, in the workplaces and, doubtlessly, in the offices of the usurped government, and the judiciary.  All, publi

Because of this, it seems to me that, when we attempt to address the concepts of 'fairness' and 'equality', in general, as applying to how people are treated in a given country.  It is unlikely to be productive, unless we focus on the quality of that country's government, and the laws it enacts and enforced, in governing how it, as the highest arbiter of the people's or nation's fate. In order to achieve relative 'fairness' and 'equaility' amongst it people, it is a necessary and essential requirement for such countries to have strong and interventionist governments.  Not those which limit their intervention solely or mostly to enabling and encouraging the creation of wealth, and minimal regulations surrounding its accumulation and distribution.  And the protection of the state from internal and external threats.  This is particularly important when it comes to ensuring proper respect for the ensuring the maintenance of good en

Based on the various symptoms which can indicate that a person is experiencing a state of worry or of being worried, it seems quite reasonable to describe this state as one in which a person is feeling a sense of dread or foreboding about a traumatic event which has occurred, or which they fear might or is about happen.  This profound feeling or sense of dread does not have to be a continuous one, as it might go and come, with the intensity or acuteness of the feeling varying. The source of the feeling of dread can vary.  It could result from a broken relationship, an impending separation, a serious or terminal illness, a pending operation, the impending death of putting to death or incarceration of a loved one, etc.  Depending on the acuteness of the worrying, it could lead the person suffering from it to seek 'relief', by carrying out secondary tragic acts, such as self-harming or taking or endangering the lives of others. As we have seen from sociopathic m