All photos copyright Doug Spencer. Each is a close view of something wondrous, but easily ignored, reviled as “rubbish”, or dismissed as “dead”.
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All photos copyright Doug Spencer, taken on morning of March 23, 2018.
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Most of Tasmania’s Southwest National Park is wilderness – no roads, no internet, no selfie sticks…
One CommentWho was the most elegant and inspiring swimmer last Wednesday lunchtime at the waterhole in Aspley Gorge, near Bicheno?
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Its kelp/granite/sand shores are still sublime, and Bicheno the town remains nicely-unassuming.
Comments closedIn light of the first comment in response to it, you may like to explore the following – all apropos, in various ways, whether directly so, or indirectly.
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Most commonly-held notions about this southern African language are simply wrong.
Ironically, those notions are the fruit of prejudice.
Many who sneer at the language do so because they believe Afrikaans is somehow “tainted” – a “white” tongue, still stubbornly clung to by a “racist” minority.
In fact, in South Africa today, the majority of “first language” speakers of Afrikaans are not white people, not Afrikaners.
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Remote, yet easily reached – when weather and other drivers have been gentle to its access roads.
Severely degraded – via agricultural activity/malpractice, upstream.
But still beautiful, apparently “wild” – this fragile/resilient place includes Crocodile Rock.
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Something very harmful and maybe irreversible is happening to human attention in our digital age. Not just distraction or addiction; social media companies are inducing people to give up their autonomy. The power to shape people’s attention is increasingly concentrated in the hands of a few companies. It takes a real effort to assert and defend what John Stuart Mill called “the freedom of mind.” There is a possibility that once lost, people who grow up in the digital age will have difficulty in regaining it. This may have far-reaching political consequences.
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