Peter Rose
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Collections of "my" vocal essays with additions, are available as printed books ASIN 197680615 and 1980878536 also some fictional works and some e books available at Amazon;-
amazon.com/author/healthandfunpeterrose
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Planning and traffic rules madness
Planning and traffic rule madness. A political recipe for disaster. The politicians appear to have abandoned control over a vital aspect of national life. They have been duped into allowing left wing ecology propaganda, to replace common sense and rational evaluation, they will pay for this at the ballot box.
By Peter Rose5 years ago in The Swamp
Law as a political weapon
Law as a political weapon Courts destroying democracy. The law has always been used by governing authorities, as a means of exerting their right to govern and enforcing their laws on opponents, but in the 21st Century this is being turned on its head and being taken to absolutely absurd levels, as a means of destroying democratic rule.
By Peter Rose5 years ago in The Swamp
The decline in fact based knowledge is harming governance
The decline in fact based knowledge. The more we are told, the less we know. Many decisions are now made based on the prevalent opinion, rather than scientific fact and this is harmful to world wide governance. It allows manipulation of both public and authority perceptions.
By Peter Rose5 years ago in The Swamp
Why has it become wrong to be "normal"?
Why has it become wrong to be “normal”? Democracy is now at the mercy of the rush to be different. The media seems intent on making being “normal, or average, or as most others, or part of the majority,” into something to be avoided. The media has lauded dissent and being different, seemingly just for the sake of it, and makes being part of the majority almost a crime. It is not that the media in general praises genius or original thinking, it is praises anything that is unusual.
By Peter Rose5 years ago in The Swamp
The meaning of words
The meaning of words. The political meaning of words. Many words in common use appear to mean different things to different people and this can cause confusion, which can be used by unscrupulous political zealots, to twist and doctor public opinion.
By Peter Rose5 years ago in The Swamp
Resolving political grievances
Resolving “political” grievances. Historic grievances should not control future policy. We appear to be in a period of political negativity. All the media is focused on protests about historical grievances, supposed wrongs when judged by modern moral view points. These historical wrongs range from, events and decision made hundreds of years ago, to miscalculations and wrong decisions made during the early stages of the present world wide coronavirus epidemic.
By Peter Rose6 years ago in The Swamp
Intolerance is killing democracy
Intolerance is killing democracy Is this deliberate? World wide wars have been fought, millions of people have died, all in an effort to save us all from the extreme intolerance of fascism. Governments through some form of democracy has been maintained, at least in part, to ensure intolerance does not take control. Yet, if the media is to be believed, intolerance is silencing opinions, declaring that some views are not “acceptable”. Acceptable to who? To a democratically elected majority? Sadly no. Ideas are declared unacceptable by a self appointed un-elected group who consider themselves so superior to everyone else. Is this an accurate statement? or is the truth far more sinister. Is the present politically correct intolerance actually an extremist plot to destroy democracy? Is it extreme socialism or extreme fascism, that is trying to suppress ideas they do not agree with? Could be either, as in actual real effect, as experienced by the governed, they are the same.
By Peter Rose6 years ago in The Swamp
Science and religion why the political conflict?
Science and religion why the political conflict? Science and religion can co-exist There seems to be such conflict, especially at the extremes of various belief systems, that science and religion are in opposition, so you can not consider both valid. Reading a fictional book by Raymond Khoury called The Sign, a fictional thriller with a complex plot that involves manipulation of religious fervor by use of a futuristic, and rather unlikely, scientific invention; the suggestion that religious fundamentalists do not accept science in any way is brought to the fore. So let us consider both and how politics gets involved.
By Peter Rose6 years ago in The Swamp
Racism, political and moral questions
Racism, political and moral questions. Discrimination which feeds racial discontent. This is a difficult subject to write about, to find the correct words, since so many people appear to be willing to misinterpret what ever is written, into meanings that the writer did not intend.
By Peter Rose6 years ago in The Swamp
Do not rush evolution
Do not rush evolution. Will we hurry to oblivion? Planet earth has, so the astrophysicists tell us, about a billion years of life left in her, a thousand million years before the sun cooks everything. It may be that we humans will kill ourselves off long before that time but if we do not, we will have time to evolve solutions, we will have time to adjust the populations to sustainable levels, we will have time to develop technologies that will enhance human existence. Why all the rush to an unknown future. Evolution works because it tests each and every stage of change, over time.
By Peter Rose6 years ago in Futurism
