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I am a pilgrim on the road of life, searching for a path forward that looks increasingly dark. I am the builder of ideological lifeboats to save ourselves from what may soon be the wreckage of modern times.I have had a couple of talks recorded for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, on 'Ockham's Razor' and one of them was published in a best-of anthology.My first essay in these columns, 'Meditations...' is to be published this autumn as a result of exposure on this site.

Romeo and Juliet Revisited  [E]   9.5 KB
If anyone was crossed it was their parents and family members who were....

Studies from a Writing Workshop  [------]   8.9 KB
Writing workshops are great creative stimulus

Meditations on Postmodernity:  [E]   75.6 KB
There is a specter that haunts us.....

Bathroom Wars  [E]   2.7 KB
Operation Cloaca Storm

The Corporate Rapper  [E]   2.6 KB
A Modern Morality Shake and Tap

Death Squad: Camp Commandant's lecture  [13+]   6.4 KB
Central and South America in the 1970s became a Cold War battle ground..............

Wendy liked to be spanked  [18+]   10.4 KB
As a child, she had played spanking games with her brother and cousins...........

Liquid Dreams: Desire in a public place  [18+]   2.0 KB
Sexual arousal in public places cannot be seen on people's faces

Murder In The Spring Time  [GC]   1.1 KB
Observations in the wake of a terrorist attack

Bosnia the Damned  [E]   0.8 KB
Blood and Tears in the Balkans

A Modern Parable   [18+]   1.4 KB
They were hot, but they drifted

Edgeborough: Testament 2 the Old School  [------]   134.3 KB
52 years after leaving my boarding prep school, its impact continues to intensify

Edgefeeders  [E]   3.0 KB
Overfed and Starving

The Blessing  [E]   1.2 KB
An ode to love and its succession

Voices from the past in the present  [E]   9.0 KB
Modernization urgency in the face of western imperialism parallels the ecological crisis

On the Edge 3: The Simmonds Family   [E]   8.7 KB
Marginalized and Maxed out

On the Edge 2: Earnest and Dullina  [E]   7.4 KB
Strugglers

On the Edge 1: Fred Hogan  [E]   5.8 KB
He loved risk & would go to the edge of the possible and himself to sharpen and cut it.

The Suitcase  [E]   2.1 KB
Cultural roots carted around with no place to go

The Interview  [E]   2.6 KB
Appointment with the Regimental Sergeant-Major

Walkies Time  [E]   1.8 KB
B’ffy black dog waits, grey day, wet day notwithstanding...

Modern Accounting  [E]   0.8 KB
Inside the cancer sell is the sweet smell of success and profit

Marriage Blues  [E]   10.7 KB
The final emails

The Dictatorship of the Toys:  [E]   5.7 KB
The Hegemony of Games and the collapse of adulthood.

'The Edge': Totalitarian Psychology’  [E]   45.4 KB
Permanent mobilization, psychological extremism and precarious living

Revolution: Restructure & Disempowerment  [E]   24.0 KB
Totalitarian governance with democratic features and the freedom to obey spontaneously

Plunder: Species War Against The Planet   [E]   5.8 KB
Speed guzzling the future of Our Children

The New Totalitarians: Hubris  [E]   12.5 KB
The Dictatorship of the Oligarchs, superproductivity and indefinite exponential growth

A Post-Modern Sustainable Order:  [13+]   21.7 KB
A business model for rebuilding the city of the imagination.

Sustainability 101 Revisited  [------]   5.7 KB
A letter to his 'conservative' parliamentary representative

The Great Sex Con  [GC]   9.0 KB
The biggest ideological beat up in the long history of malarkey

Health care in a post-modern world  [E]   4.6 KB
Eyeballing a category 2 Self Harmer

Corporal punishment is not the issue  [E]   13.3 KB
Undermined and dysfunctional social governance is

Sistermentor  [E]   10.4 KB
The business of making men who make good marriages

A Post-Modern Death  [E]   10.2 KB
Your individual life is infinitely less important than the life it passes on,

Freeway  [E]   0.8 KB
A driver sees not so much traffic as an industrial nightmare

Modernization: Affliction and Hope  [E]   4.0 KB
An old man's village world is destroyed and his children take to the city of Sodom

Network Marketing  [E]   1.0 KB
Breaching the walls between social intimacy and commerce

AIDS in the third world  [E]   1.7 KB
A disease that finds out social weakness and preys upon it

The sports Gladiators  [E]   5.6 KB
Amphitheatre entertainment in the modern period

'Bankworld' Adjustment:Beyond Wall St  [E]   10.7 KB
Cultural Reform using the whole of society denazification model

A letter to his younger cousin  [E]   23.9 KB
A warning on the occasion of said cousin's daughter's 13th birthday

What Men and Women Need  [E]   6.1 KB
A blunt assessment of what neither presently gets

Credo for the End of Modern Times  [E]   1.8 KB
The rise of irrational thinking is bad for itself and worse for what it signifies

Post-Modern Heroes: Michael and Giordana  [E]   55.9 KB
A Narrative of Homilies for a Brave New World

Judgment Day  [E]   0.9 KB
Moral fudging is no longer acceptable in decent company

Reflections on the Climate of Opinion  [E]   7.0 KB
The climate change debate conflates so many unstated issues that it paralyses action

Softwell Man - The Last 5 Minutes  [E]   15.6 KB
A founding father of a post-modern salvation industry gets in the way of his successor

Drug 'Reform'  [E]   4.5 KB
Avaaz wants us to give up on the war on drugs

Golf Course de l'Amour  [13+]   1.3 KB
Armed with woods and trusty irons lovers play in her environs

The Age of Bottled Water  [E]   5.0 KB
A generation designed 2 respond to the new as marketable minds that R primed 4 their cue

Hypatia's Ghost  [E]   12.2 KB
Dealing with irrational faith in an irrational world order

Satan Speaks:  [E]   17.8 KB
Hell reconstructed: CEO, founder, board chairman and C.E.O., Bertram L Zeebub, tells all

Marriage Homily: Michael and Giordana  [E]   8.5 KB
A sober reminder that in post-modern times, marriage is no longer a private contract

Ideological Lifeboats 1  [------]   18.0 KB
A seemingly solid and secure world hangs by a rotten and frayed thread

Ideological Lifeboats 2  [------]   15.6 KB
Redefining & defending human capital in a rapidly depleting & deteriorating world order

War & Peacetime Hyper-production  [------]   13.2 KB
Customer Service: Slavery in the Twenty-first Century

Lies, Damn Lies and Excuses  [E]   5.0 KB
What to do with excuses

Lucky  [13+]   15.7 KB
A story of terrible choices, survival, success and moral cost

Endearments   [------]   1.3 KB
A paean to his wife

Christopher Nagle's Display Cabinet  [------]   27 Entries
Tasters from the texts of my larger portfolio pieces

Gross & Horrible; Bastards Great & Small  [ASR]   28.7 KB
Conundrums raised by history's successful monsters, to confront & hone moral judgment

Aussie Rob Abracadabra Lessons  [------]   40.6 KB
Futures markets for beginners and other endangered species

Caligula’s Horse  [------]   96.0 KB
Gender, Sexuality, Gay Pride and the Coming of Post-Modern Times

Home  [------]   1.0 KB
In less than 50 years, the family dwelling has been progressively restructured into a...

Cars, Lifestye & Planning 4 the Future  [------]   11.7 KB
Cars only give an impression of speed. The ads portray them on deserted & picturesque...

Christmasphobic Without Merriment!  [------]   3.0 KB
I am trying to avoid Christmas. No, it is more than that. I am boycotting it!

Copenhagen and all that   [------]   2.8 KB
Almost unnoticed in Copenhagen, at least by the affluent of the world, .........

My Mate John: a very Australian story  [------]   5.9 KB
The migrant experience fifty years on

Brouhaha for Hitler  [E]   4.8 KB
A master of crowds and shaman forges the storm to come

Head Burial in a Tight Spot  [------]   11.3 KB
A study in intellectual Reluctance and its antidotes

Quiet Revolutionaries - The Idearchs  [E]   6.1 KB
Mind Lords and the New Slave Economy

Maori Girl Poem  [------]   0.9 KB
A smile upon a summer's day

Shylock in the Twenty-First Century  [------]   78.6 KB
The Jewish 'Problem': continuity and change in a dangerous place

New York Busted  [------]   1.3 KB
Jihad on Jerry's jokes

A Sorry Story  [------]   55.1 KB
Trying to find a way out for indigenous peoples....and us

WindblownTales from the Coast  [------]   53.2 KB
Cycling reflections on the way and coming back.