The Need for a New Religion
By Max Musson: We live in a world in which many people have a dark sense of foreboding. Particularly in Western European countries where we have experienced better times within living memory, there is a feeling that many facets of our lives are deteriorating and have been relentlessly deteriorating for several decades at least. In material terms we appear to be better off than ever before and yet the material benefits themselves do not seem…
Moral Particularism and the Imbalance of Nature
By Max Musson: In this modern age of concern for environmental issues, many people and even some naturalists who should know better, often talk of the ‘balance of nature’, and in reference to the impact of mankind’s growth and expansion across the globe, are highly critical, citing current trends as evidence that ‘we’ are “destroying the planet”. Worse than this however, is the tendency to view the lifestyles of the indigenous peoples of the ‘developing…
Ebola: Epidemic, Pandemic, Apocalypse?
By Max Musson: In a previous article I discussed the way I which fictional accounts of a ‘zombie apocalypse’ compare with the approach of our government towards the mounting catalogue of hostility shown by certain immigrant groups towards the indigenous people of Britain. In that article I identified the classic feature of a typical ‘zombie apocalypse’ movie: “The response of the authorities to the zombie threat is invariably slower than its rate of growth, giving the…
The Need For A New Religion
We live in a world in which many people have a dark sense of foreboding. Particularly in Western European countries where we have experienced better times within living memory, there is a feeling that many facets of our lives are deteriorating and have been relentlessly deteriorating for several decades at least. In material terms we appear to be better off than ever before and yet the material benefits themselves do not seem to adequately compensate…