I was posed this question a while ago and cannot think of a good answer: What does the government provide that cannot be organised privately?

The Lies we Tell Ourselves

I was speaking to my partners brother who was showing me his new headphones on Christmas Eve. They were Bose noise-cancelling ones and sounded fantastic. I asked him what model they were and he told me

Deep beneath the lonely desert sands of New Mexico a 4 star general was weeping. His body shuddered as he kept whimpers from escaping and with each spasm of sobs, his thoughts turned to his daughter and

The harsh truth.

I have a thought experiment that I'm still formulating in my mind but I thought I'd commit it to the good people of Steemit for some good old fashioned critical review. It stemmed from a conversation I

“Look deep into nature and you will understand everything better” – Albert Einstein The seemingly chaotic workings of nature around us have in fact universal ratios that seem to be at play and they don’t

The below three marketing campaigns have impacted their respective companies not only with massively increased profits but the invaluable brand recognition that has made them household names we know them

“All reality is an illusion, albeit a persistent one” – Albert Einstein There is nothing as strange as reality. As an avid science fiction reader in my youth I would have categorically disagreed with this

This statement always seems to piss people off as they don't like to think about being stolen from or that they are complicit in voting to perpetuate the robbery. People can suffer from cognitive dissonance

Ask somebody what they think of when they hear the word ‘anarchy’ and a popular response is ‘chaos’. In fact, the opposite is true. Anarchy is peace, order and true freedom. The chaotic face of anarchy

Quite the opposite I'd say! I've heard people telling me I can't complain about government because I don't vote and I often wonder if they know what they are saying or just regurgitating some buzz-phrase

Dear Steemit, I have come to whittle hours and impart tales of wizardry and woe. I will share knowledge and creep through prose while the moon is fat and my flaggon is full. I look forwad to sharing my

A common theme when asking people the difference between right and wrong these days is the answer is 'It's subjective'. Is it really though? Does moral relativism really exist or do we abdicate responsibility

“Follow the evidence, wherever it leads” – Plato's Socrates. DNA: As a boy, the first I heard about this mysterious stuff was from Richard Attenborough explaining to me how he had cloned dinosaurs in his

My dog with his stick on the beach. Simple pleasures!

Civilisation, it seems, is a lot older than we have been led to believe. Our current academic timeline has human civilisation beginning around 6000 years ago with the formation of the first human cities