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Words of Wisdom

  • When we remember that we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.
  • – Mark Twain
  • Whenever a particular freedom is put in question, freedom in general is put in question.
  • – Karl Marx
  • Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as it is for the body. Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are the dead.
  • – Aldous Huxley
  • I didn’t really say everything I said.
  • – Yogi Berra

Snippets

The shadow which haunts the power structure is the danger that those who are controlled will come to realize that they are powerless only so long as they think they are. Once people stop believing they are powerless, then the whole edifice which they support is in danger of collapse.
Against All Odds

Apologists for censorship invariably profess noble motives. They tell us that of course they are in favour of freedom of speech ‘in principle’ – then they go on to explain that ‘the greater good’ requires denying freedom of speech to people whose views they dislike.
Free speech for me – you shut up

If Hitchcock had made a film about neoliberal economics, the Chicago School of Economics would be the Bates Motel, Milton Friedman would be the demented proprietor, and Friedrich Hayek would be the dead mother in the attic.
Neoliberal House of Horrors

The Left has engaged in the futile pursuit of ‘moving the NDP to the left’ since 1933, achieving pretty much the same result as a dog chasing its tail.
Let’s Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP


Radical Digressions Comprehensive Subject Index

The Subject Index is designed to help you explore Radical Digressions by topic. There are individual pages for each topic, as well as an index page listing the most popular topics, and a separate comprehensive subject index listing more than 4,000 topics.
- Ulli Diemer


Nature

  1. Catch the Wind
    On nature, birds, and Miriam
  2. Close Encounter with a Red-tailed Hawk
  3. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
  4. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives
  5. Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
  6. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
  7. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
  8. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
  9. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
  10. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
  11. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
  12. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
  13. Down at the Lake
  14. An evening paddle
  15. Longing for freedom, and grieving loss
    Reflections on watching swifts on a summer evening
  16. Miriam's Nature Calendar 2022
  17. Miriam's Nature Calendar 2019
  18. Miriam's Nature Calendar 2020
  19. Miriam's Nature Calendar 2021
  20. Nature Essays and Observations
    2020-2025
  21. Nature: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
  22. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
    Residential schools
  23. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
    Official Enemies
  24. Pigeons and People
  25. Sehnsucht und Liebe
    Die unerreichbare Freiheit der Segler
  26. Special Places
    Photography and the Landscape of Memory
  27. Spring sprung, grass riz, wonder where birdies is
  28. Strange Sounds Up in the Trees
  29. Toronto Ravines - Ours to Preserve
  30. White-throated Sparrow



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