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I regularly take part in online surveys to earn a bit of cash on the side. Now, mostly it’s boring, standard surveys about some new toothpaste or the public image of insurance companies and banks. But ever so often there are political polls (especially before elections, naturally), which I always enjoy, or you learn about new films or new developments on streaming platforms ahead of time. (more…)
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Don Quixote is one of the most influential works of fiction of all time. Written in two parts by the Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra in the early seventeenth century, the book tells the story of the comedic adventures of a bumbling knight, Don Quixote of La Mancha. (more…)
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Photo courtesy of Printerval
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One might say that the concept ‘game’ is a concept with blurred edges. — Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations
Blurred around the edges though the concept of a “game” might be, I believe it is safe to say that every serious player of every kind of game plays to win. Which brings me to an extremely popular game being played these days with payoffs for the winner in the form of power acquisition: the “game of virtuous victimhood.” (more…)
Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
Executive Chairman of the World Economic Forum Klaus Schwab (left) and Chinese President Xi Jinping.
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In August of this year, China engaged in military exercises and heated rhetoric against Taiwan and the United States in light of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s visit to the embattled island nation. Veteran paleoconservative pundit Pat Buchanan believes that a “US-China collision somewhere in the Western Pacific appears inevitable,” with Taiwanese sovereignty as the catalyst. (more…)