- Written by: Kamran Mofid
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'We Are Not the First Civilization to Collapse, but We Will Probably Be the Last'
Neoliberalism and Thatcherism have brought the world to its nadir of decadence
The end is nigh
The Course of Empire - Destruction. Painting by Thomas Cole
‘Civilizations die in familiar patterns. They exhaust natural resources. They spawn parasitic elites who plunder and loot the institutions and systems that make a complex society possible. They engage in futile and self-defeating wars. And then the rot sets in. The great urban centres die first, falling into irreversible decay. Central authority unravels. Artistic expression and intellectual inquiry are replaced by a new dark age, the triumph of tawdry spectacle and the celebration of crowd-pleasing imbecility.’ - Chris Hedges, in ScheerPost
- Written by: Kamran Mofid
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'On and On How Fragile We Are...'
‘Life is so full of unpredictable beauty and strange surprises’
Words from Sting’s “Fragile” song. Photo: Song Meanings and Facts
Nota bene
Recently I read a very moving, powerful, and at times, fearful, distressing, but also hopeful article, written by a senior surgeon and academician in the US, speaking out about the rise in mental illness and suicides amongst physicians and surgeons in the US, by highlighting her own story and journey. More on this later.
For now, suffice to say, what I read resonated with me. I felt a sense of kinship and indigeneity with the story and the storyteller.
- Written by: Kamran Mofid
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A painting by Berrin Duma. Photo: turkishpaintings.com
Dear prime minister Rishi Sunak, can you hear the cries of Mother Nature? Can you bring down yourself to our level and feel our suffering, pain and anguish, triggered by climate change? Air pollution, floods, droughts, fires, toxic smokes…are killing us daily and destroying our communities. Why are you not responding? Why are you watering down your legal, moral and spiritual commitments to heal and nurture our common home, our common humanity, our Mother Earth and build a better world for everyone?
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