The only thing we ever do.

                                                       What is it ?         This is the fundamental question, that sits atop Bela Lugosi's pyramid : and a question (like all other questions) that can produce an infinite set of responses or ideas. In order to understand something clearly we must first ask: what is it? and then attempt to produce the best idea in response. Any effort to attempt to do any of these basic steps of communication is most often greeted with bemusement or derision. It is noticable that the level of derision often increases according to the person's level of "education." Funny that.               Traditional public education has always had one basic, yet most often unarticulated, goal: The continuation of the status quo.*  Because of this, there are the usual attempts to encourage children to believe that they live in a magical country handed to them by God, or else born covered in the blood of brave and noble warriors, or maybe forged i

One small step.                        When Neil Armstrong`s boot disturbed the basaltic surface of the Moon on July 21st 1969 it was indeed one small step for one man. But behind that single step lay a series of other small steps that all came together in order to form that giant leap for Mankind. If you ran the film backwards, the boot would go up the ladder into the Lunar Module which would then leap back onto the massive rocket powerful enough to take us out of Earth's jealous grasp. The boot and the rocket would land in Delaware and then the rocket alone would travel on to Nazi Germany, painted with light by Fritz Lang, before disappearing into the minds and imaginations of human beings as far back as people go.        This action was the fulfillment of an idea that our species had dreamed upon since first we raised our gaze to the heavens and began to question: What is that thing up there? and how can we get there?  As well being the natural consequence of the evolu

  Worth fighting for? Tommy Atkins enjoys a tasty Beveridge.                                            In 1942, at the height of World War 2, the British coalition government produced a report on social welfare that contained the promise of a better society for everybody contributing to the war effort. The Beveridge Report recognised 5 Giant evils that needed to be dealt with; these evils were: squalor, ignorance, want, idleness and disease. The conclusions of this report were widely accepted across the political spectrum and its recommendations for producing the better world that people were supposedly fighting for would strike a chord amongst the general public that would resonate most strongly in the country's general election of 1945 .      Only two months after VE Day , the British people overwhelmingly said yes to the Labour Party's promises to implement the recommendations of the Beveridge Report. The war leader Churchill and his Conservative party -

 Dresden 1945,  corpses from the Allied bombing are piled to be burned. Reaping the Whirlwind or  Slaughterhouse?      In September 1939, following the German invasion of Poland , Britain declared war on Germany. In the years that followed, incredible leaps of technology would see the Second World War go from Polish troops on horseback to one single bomb that could destroy an entire city . The ever Increasing industrialisation of war would be typified by the horrors of the  Nazi Concentration Camps , an idea initially  borrowed from the British and taken to new depths. War planners and people who could have been spending their time doing other things, poured their energies into figuring out even better ways to kill others.       At the heart of all this destruction was the struggle of ideas:  whose we should live by. After the fighting, the people of Britain would process the information of these events and have some new ideas of their own. But during the war, the ideas w