Imagine we are sitting down together with a cup of coffee, and I ask you “who is your enemy?” What would you answer? Perhaps you might name some person who has annoyed you — your neighbour, for example, or some childhood foe. Maybe you might name some foreign country that your country is at war […]
“Patience is a virtue,” as they say. But how many people actually practice the act of patience? How many people want everything this second because they are trained by endless scrolling through social media to have the attention span of a goldfish? How many Amazon next-day deliveries of materialistic shit arrive every minute? Here, I […]
You have no doubt heard of the Renaissance, which was a period of cultural, artistic, political, and economic “rebirth” after the Middle Ages. The Renaissance period was characterised by efforts to rejuvenate and exceed the ideas and achievements of classical antiquity, which came before it. This is also an idea that we can apply to […]