Author Archives: Interchangeable Adrian

There was an article in the Guardian recently accusing climate scientists of being too soft and gentle , too tentative, not clear enough about climate change/ the unfolding environmental catastrophe. Someone wrote in in-response saying that they thought the problem was more about the ignorance of politicians. I think both views are naive – ifContinue reading “Politicians are ignorant about climate change? – I think you are being a bit naive”

When did we forget that just because we can do something, it doesn’t mean that we must? How do we remind ourselves that the future we are being coralled into is not inevitable? If you suggest that the future we are heading for is not the right one, there is a tendency to get labelledContinue reading “We can choose the future”

Ever since I was a young boy, I’ve had to put up with people explaining why I am not a real man. I’ve never been manly enough. Not muscular enough not good enough at sports read too many books wear hand-me down clothes that weren’t fashionable even the first time around Can’t and don’t-want-to gobContinue reading “You have spent your life telling me I’m not a real man and now I agree you’ve got the arse-ache, come again?”

People go on and on about pornography being dangerous and a problem but as far as I can see if people are happy to be filmed naked or having sex and other people enjoy seeing or watching this there is no moral damage being done. In fact, one might argue that a decently made filmContinue reading “What’s wrong with pornography anyway?”

I have always suffered from anxiety and bouts of depression. Hermann Hesse nailed my experience of depression in Steppenwolf: “…He must with his own hand make an end of his detested existence – unless, molten in the fire of renewed self-knowledge, he underwent a change and passed over to a self, new and undisguised. Alas!Continue reading “Marketing, Meaning and Madness”

As you probably know, Marx mooted the idea that the capitalist system has its destruction coded into its very nature. The argument is that capitalism is inherently expansionist (that is it must grow to operate) and exploitative (it depends on having new resources/people to exploit). Eventually, there will be nothing/nobody left to exploit, the systemContinue reading “Whatever happened to the crisis of capitalism?”

The capitalist system of economics brought us most of the good stuff we have today. Without private individuals being able to raise the capital needed to develop innovative new ideas we just would not have most of the stuff we now think of as essential to our lives. I don’t believe governments would ever thinkContinue reading “Don’t you love me baby? (or why you may have to leave the impresario who made you behind)”