What if the ancient accounts of creation, divine councils and the gods who governed mankind preserve more than myth? This article compares Psalm 82, Genesis, the Enūma Eliš, the Sumerian King List and the later shaping of the Old Testament to ask whether humanity’s origins—and its troubled relationship with its creators—may have been remembered in distorted form.
Month: July 2026
France’s political history after 1789 was marked by repeated shifts between monarchy, republic and empire. This overview traces the principal regimes from the Revolution through Napoleon, the restored Bourbons and the later republics.
A comparative overview of nineteenth-century Europe, examining how Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Portugal followed different paths through industrialisation, revolution, nationalism, social change and the growth of the modern state.
Political renewal begins with metanoia: a change in what individuals desire, value and understand by prosperity. A just nation should express that inner transformation through responsible care for food, land, energy, transport, waste and the common home.
Pink Floyd gave musical form to the anxieties of modern society: conformity, surveillance, war, education, commerce, madness and isolation. Their music reached millions through its atmosphere, virtuosity and emotional force; their words, for those who attended to them, offered a bleak diagnosis of a civilisation whose machinery shapes human beings while calling the process progress. Yet Pink Floyd offered no cure. Their criticism remained inside the system it condemned, leaving the listener to decide what responsibility should follow recognition.
The exhibition became more than an encounter with Aboriginal art. It prompted a reflection on land, possession, mortality and the brief intensity of human existence beneath forces we neither own nor command. Sol Invictus—the unconquered sun—became the image of that vast order: indifferent to fences, empires and claims of permanence, yet illuminating the fleeting instant in which life acquires meaning.
For the French Romantics, the American Indian represented more than an exotic other. He became a symbolic figure through whom Europe reflected on its own condition: freedom and estrangement, nature and civilisation, innocence and loss. In writers such as Rousseau and Chateaubriand, Indigenous America appeared as a world less divided, less artificial and closer to nature, even if that vision often told us as much about European longing as about Native American reality.
Warwick Thornton’s The New Boy presents the forced assimilation of an Aboriginal child as a spiritual desecration. Taken from the freedom of the landscape into a remote Christian orphanage, the boy is clothed, disciplined, named and baptised before he can understand what is being done to him. The only English word he learns is “Amen”: not the language of thought or self-expression, but the language of assent.
A society rests upon shared stories, moral expectations and inherited institutions. The task is to distinguish the life-giving elements of its foundational narratives from the historical constructs that have gathered around them.
argon once obscured meaning. Today, institutional language often goes further: it defines the permitted interpretation before discussion begins. When words carry an approved moral judgement and an intended conclusion, language ceases to serve inquiry and begins to police thought.