Saying you should try to be kind sounds like a really silly and obvious thing to say. It’s the sort of thing you only need to tell little children to stop them being nasty in the playground. You know there are better things to be than kind. Like being creative, or the top dog.
THE COOL MAN: For approximately 80 years, the notion of what a man should be like has been heavily influenced by the idea of ‘cool’. The cast of seductively cool figures…
We have reduced it down to a trite error – ’worrying about what the neighbours think’ – as if this were a trap that only a mediocrity could ever fall into.…
At its most basic, charity means: giving someone something they need but can’t get for themselves. Normally this is understood to mean something material. We overwhelmingly associate charity with giving money.…