Seen Elsewhere

ADM of Blogenspiel points out a thought-provoking piece in the Observer by Stephen Fry.

No, it isn’t exactly political correctness that dogs history; it’s more a pernicious refusal to enter imaginatively the lives of our ancestors. Great and good men and women stirred sugar into their coffee knowing that it had been picked by slaves. Kind, good ancestors of all of us never questioned hangings, burnings, tortures, inequality, suffering and injustice that today revolt us. If we dare to presume to damn them with our fleeting ideas of morality, then we risk damnation from our descendants for whatever it is that we are doing that future history will judge as intolerable and wicked: eating meat, driving cars, appearing on TV, visiting zoos, who knows?

We haven’t arrived at our own moral and ethical imperatives by each of us working them out from first principles; we have inherited them and they were born out of blood and suffering, as all human things and human beings are. This does not stop us from admiring and praising the progressive heroes who got there early and risked their lives to advance causes that we now take for granted.

Along with Alice Gorman, there’s Beth Laura O’Leary working on extra-terrestrial archaeology. I missed The cultural heritage of space, the Moon and other celestial bodies in last issue’s Antiquity Project Gallery.

Arranged Delirium is a blog that’s new to me. He’s currently posting some photos of stunning sites like Cliff Palace.

I don’t think I ever got round to posting this link which I found via Inkycircus. It’s a game to test if you’re more left-brained, right brained or colour-blind. The same people did a 1d version of Tetris. If it makes no sense you might want to think about what 1d means.

It took me at least 30 seconds to work out what was going on.