Dave Martin | Sports + stupidity ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Guess What, my fiends!! I do you big favour and do travel guide to all 16 host cities for 2026 FIFA World cup in USA, Canada, and Mexcico/. All the best sports – Boom! All the best food -bang! All the best comedy and comedians – blop! All th best music – boom bang! All the best writing and writers…
If you have two ways to live your life, and you wrestle between doing one thing (at the expense of the other), ask yourself these questions… Do I want this? Do others say I should do this? If you answered (in order) yes and yes, then it makes sense to do it. If you answered No and yes, then if…
Learning how to live life matters shit if you don’t actually live it. You can read all the books you want, all the great wisdom from all history’s clearest thinkers, but if you don’t actually live life, enjoy your existence (which is a privilege) and do philosophy (as in putting into practice the approach you have to dealing with difficult times, stressful…
In Plato’s Theaetetus, Thedourus and Socrates debate what it is to ‘know’ or ‘perceive’ something. And Socrates being the annoying (but excellently annoying) bloke he was, badgers Theaetetus about what they believe knowledge actually is. Theodorus’ viewpoint gets stripped bare by Socrates to the point where everything he thought he knew is put into question. He starts to get pissed off…
Patrick Dangerfield’s one of Geelong’s superstars, in the Australian Football League. And he’s a rare breed of not only player, captain, but also sportsman. He says that after a loss, typically a captain hangs their head (and emotions) low. Throughout the 121-year history of the VFL/AFL, it’s been normal for a team’s skipper to show a type of pissed-off disappointment…