Tag: common good

  • Julius Caesar: politicians use ideals in order to manipulate naive politicians and the pleb into doing what serve their personal interest or quest of power

    Julius Caesar: politicians use ideals in order to manipulate naive politicians and the pleb into doing what serve their personal interest or quest of power

    The play Julius Caesar by William Shakespeare is based on Sir Thomas North’s 1579 translation (via a French version) of Plutarch’s Bioi parallēloi (Parallel Lives), the drama takes place in 44 BCE, after Caesar has returned to Rome.  Fearing Caesar’s ambition, Cassius forms a conspiracy among Roman republicans. He persuades the reluctant Brutus — Caesar’s…

  • License on the Red Planet – A science fiction story

    License on the Red Planet – A science fiction story

    Clementine woke up suddenly. She had dreamt that she was on the Red planet again, the planet where she was born. She was still considered a citizen of this planet, not of the Planet Brown for which she had left everything. As she couldn’t pay for extra luggage, she had arrived five years ago now…

  • Farmers will make butter

    Farmers will make butter

    Too many producers of milk in France live below the poverty line. This is a scandal that those who feed the population are treated this way! Farmers chose to act. Some butter producers have found better buyers in other countries which has created a shortage of butter in the supermarkets because they refused to increase…