Author Archives: John B Ledger

March 2000

What must I have looked like? What sort of person must have I portrayed to provoke a girl, probably 4 school years younger, to shout “he’s’ one wi’ problem!”? My friends made sure I knew they found it hilarious, which would had caused me far more immediate humiliation if I hadn’t had got other priorities.  IContinue reading “March 2000”

Thoughts on ‘Am I becoming more right wing’?

I admit the blog I posted on Friday was a little incoherent. Because I don’t think I explained that it was really just a musing over what appears to be a connection between a retreat from the world and reactionary beliefs, and how I feel that I have seen myself wishing to retreat over theContinue reading “Thoughts on ‘Am I becoming more right wing’?”

Am I becoming more right wing?

…and the shift from a society of aspirational individualism to one of preservationist individualism. Ok, so the title sounds ironic, or even a reference to a Father Ted scene. But it does raise what has been one of my serious concerns over the past year or so: that a series of factors have altered myContinue reading “Am I becoming more right wing?”

Jurassic Park 30 years on: the gates to ‘The End of History’

Of late I’ve more or less accepted that I’m unqualified to write even lazy cultural theory. Much to my frustration, and after realising I was applying for a Phd I couldn’t do, I’ve come to accept that I’ll never get a job in teaching or writing about something that interests me so much. In partContinue reading “Jurassic Park 30 years on: the gates to ‘The End of History’”

1996

I can’t come to terms with the fact it’s 27 years ago. It’s my fault, I guess, for getting stuck in this amber. Although I cannot be held responsible for the formation of the amber itself, I need to accept some responsibility for getting so stuck, and in turn unstuck from the world as itContinue reading “1996”