Ying and yang. Good versus evil. Jordan Peterson and Meghan Markle.

Momentary political expediency, self-aggrandisement and the peddling of political falsehoods may work for now, but they will eventually wreck themselves upon the immutable rocks of reality.

Science is now not a theory of knowledge acquisition, it is now a monolithic prophet that knows all and determines truth.

The inescapability of this reality means there is no cure; there is only a balm, one balm. Love.

‘The thesis that something like an essential human nature must exist – necessity self-applied – is far more persuasive than any attempt made to describe it.’

Humans are social creatures by nature, and we need the sense of belonging and identity that society provides us, as well as the support of its members, to exist.

‘I recommend having a Descartes moment and I recommend doubt; the world could really do with more of both.’