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The world's stock markets or stock exchanges' are currently in a state of acute perplexity.  The commodity markets and exchanges are falling significantly, as the speculators and traders decide to sell rather than buy the products which are being sold and bought on them.  In the jargon of the commodity markets, it is currently a 'bearish', rather than a 'bullish' market And how are some of the financial and economic gurus, seers and prophets interpreting this current phenomenon?  It is, according to them, not something which should cause people too much anxiety, if any at all. Because, they are pronosticating, this is all a matter of the 'Stock markets' taking 'self-corrective' measures' to return its original state of equilibrium or balance.  The commodity markets, it seem, have been endowed with intelligence, they have become personified.  And are able to detect when something is wrong, when they are out of sync an

It would appear that one of the quintessential characteristics of humans, is their hierarchical nature.  Their tendency to differential amongst themselves and place their kind in different positions of authority, status and social and/or societal significance.  We can see this from the separation of the rulers from the rules, the monarchy from the subjects of the crown.  The nobility from the common people.   The masters from the servants, the slave owners from the slaves, the gradations of the Indian caste system.   The lower status of women from men, the lower status of non-elite older people from the younger generations, the political, economic and social elites from the masses.  All of which suggest that human lives and functioning is an intricate tapestry of virtues and vices, inequalities and equalities, inhumanity and humility.  All set up, or, probably more accurately, evolved into a complex and fragile balance which.  Although it might and can be cha

So, do we humans expect too much of our doctors? Do we expect miracles from them, probably?  Have we got too much trust in them to get things right? To make the right prognosis and diagnosis when we try, not always to our best endeavour, or very articulately, to describe our symptoms to them?  Are we mistaken if we expect them to help us out a bit by asking us those vital intuitive and facilitative questions?   On whether we have had any of the symptom or incidents on their list of what can sometimes seem to be too darn many questions?  When all we want is the answer to this question: Doctor, what is wrong with me?  Even as we earnestly hope that it is nothing serious, or too serious.  That we are not suffering from cancer or some malignant tumour.  Or that we are not unfortunate enough, not fated to be suffering from some heinously wasting and degenerative disease, such as MS, Huntington's Chorea, dementia, etc.  And so, we approach our doctors, whe

Not only has the President survived his first year, but he has also inflicted serious, if not mortal harm on his predecessor, Barak Obama's legacy.  President Trump has driven a devilism stake into the body of former Democratic Administration's Affordable Care Act.  An assault which, if it is not remedied, or is repeated, could probably prove fatal for the aspiration of this 'to be great again nation', having a national health care service.   Which is befitting of, yes, 'a great nation', even if the epithet of 'greatest nation', is an aspiration too many for the United States to be able to achieve.  Especially now considering the impeccable credential of the 'new' nation, China, on the block. President Trump has also stuck the knife into Paris Climate Change agreement, and cleaner and healthier industrial policies in the United States.  As well as into the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, while he keeps

To be put up to the scrutiny of 'independent and vigorous examination.  Just as how the religious hierarchy all over the world, to varying degrees of intensity and scale, is being called to account for their and their religious establishments. It is not enough to arbitrarily set the ceiling of accountability and transparency at the human heads of the religious establishments.  This is not how it is done in other areas of human lives. Accountability and transparency is expected from the very top of each establishment. For whatever reason, there is a tendency, in all or most societies, it seems, to all too much tolerance and levity towards  religious fraud and corruption and exploitation.    There is this tendency for the law to seemingly be applying the Christian proverb about ' giving to Caesar what is his, and to Christ what is his.'  Except that, in its contemporary application, it usually means allowing the minority of corrupt and fraudulent 'religiou

  So, how did President Donald John Trump survived his first year in office, and has been able to make, according to his eccentric standard, a triumphal State of the Nation Speech? For many people, Donald Trump was not meant to have survived his first year as President.  Hell, no! He was not even meant to have won the Presidency.  And, having been considered a pariah, an anathema by millions of Americans and others all over the world.   It might have been reasonable to imagine the gods would not have allowed him to survived.  Not with the billions of words having been written about his despicability, his hatefulness, and his lack of what many would call common human decency, compassion and humility.  How could the gods have allowed him to survive, knowing full well that, to allow him to do so.   Would simple reinforce his deluded perception of him having been the 'chosen one', the 'exceptional one', the 'man of destiny', whom god has c

The Chinese, like the Russians, are perceived with fear by the elite guardians of the West, of Western European Judeo-Christian civilisation, and are demonised accordingly.  The guardians of the West perceive and characterise them not only as a political and religious threat, but also as an economic threat.  In their struggle to defeat this perceived threat, the guardians of the West, consistently try to debase the Russians and the Chinese by depicting them as inferior to the West, in their socio-political and social systems.  Making them out to be the enemies of 'human rights', of 'political rights and freedoms.' Always looking out for their flaws, which they then magnify under the microscope of the media.  Paying less attention to their successes, and to balancing their analyses of their societies. Consequently, it has become the politically correct  expectation of western politicians visiting the Russia, China, et al.   To include on their agenda,