{"id":10476,"date":"2023-11-13T01:36:06","date_gmt":"2023-11-13T01:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10476"},"modified":"2023-11-13T01:54:54","modified_gmt":"2023-11-13T01:54:54","slug":"misc-health-well-being","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sebpalmer.com\/blog\/?p=10476","title":{"rendered":"MiSC\/Health & Well-being"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Nighthawk reading\u2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After a long spell of very satisfying sleep, I seem to have entered upon a new cycle of insomniac troublesome-ness!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not about to delve into the causes right here and now. Rather, I want, very briefly, to touch upon responses. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I might do a bit of blogging. Have a wee snack-ette (gratifying but poss\u2019 unwise!). Have a wee (almost always!). Or read. And this latter seems ok to me. It\u2019s enjoyable, edifying, and often even helps get me back to snoozy-snooze-land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Right now I\u2019m continuing to read volume two of Shelby Foote\u2019s monumental and totally excellent The Civil War<\/em>. And what prompted this post was the sheer joy I was taking, in reading Foote\u2019s account of the travails of confederate general Braxton Bragg (what a great name!), shortly after Vicksburg, 1862.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bragg.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s fascinating to read and reflect on how the conduct of war – or indeed any human enterprise requiring very large scale organisation and cooperation – is so fraught with interpersonal strife!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u2019t help but compare it to current UK politics, and think how blatantly shabby and amoral current Conservatism jockeying for power\/position is. Surely history will see and judge it so? Just as we judge history that has drifted further down time\u2019s stream. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But then that reminds me of that rather disheartening but alarmingly true aphorism, I forget who said it (and this is my version from memory): \u2018if history teaches us one thing, it\u2019s that history teaches us nothing.\u2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hegel.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

After typing the above, I googled it, and discovered it was in fact Hegel, and, if on-line sources are to be trusted, he said \u2018The only thing that we learn from history is that we learn nothing from history.\u2019 I\u2019ve also seen something more like my rendering attributed to actor\/bon vivant Peter Ustinov!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ustinov.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After a long spell of very satisfying sleep, I seem to have entered upon a new cycle of insomniac troublesome-ness! I\u2019m not about to delve into the causes right here and now. Rather, I want, very briefly, to touch upon responses. I might do a bit of blogging. Have a wee snack-ette (gratifying but poss\u2019 … <\/p>\n

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