Cav's Place

If we are to ever develop in a sustainable manner, one clear prerequisite is to move away from growth, and from planned obsolescence, and towards products that are truly built to last. This will obviously benefit the environment as well as the tremendous majority of people. Of course, a small number, those who always want […]

Over here, clocks were set forward one hour last night, which of course made me think of this again. Seriously, even if it might have had some purpose at some point in time, there’s currently little excuse for setting the clocks forward and back like this, but the negative consequences of doing so remain. In […]

We are born, we suffer and we die. When or how we die, how and how much we suffer, how much or even if we ever enjoy ourselves, what, if anything, we accomplish, simply has no relevance in the grand scheme of things. And that’s not only true for one person or another, but for […]

Once again, last night I was told that the ideals I strive for are nothing but dreams and utopias that will never happen and therefore don’t matter, since what’s important is “reality” and how things actually work now, as if that has any relevance other than to determine what needs changing. The fact that pretty […]

This week marks one year since the start of last year’s protests, which brought down the Boc Government and eventually removed PDL from power several months before the elections. Unfortunately, the relatively few individuals who were actually thinking things through and seeing that USL, or even PP-DD, were nothing more than slightly different kinds of […]