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Musings From the 21st Century
This blog is a collection of random thoughts, videos, news items, commentaries, and essays. Some have to do with human performance, some have to do with current affairs, and some are just stuck in here because I have nowhere else to put them. Mostly, though, it's a view of the world, and especially of Canada, as seen by a common guy travelling through the first part of the 21st century.
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Doug Matthews
Oct 21, 20245 min read
Chemtrails: Part Two
Courtesy Python Maps My last post was not the end of the chemtrail/contrail story. It goes much deeper. This post is an attempt to...
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Doug Matthews
Oct 10, 20244 min read
Chemtrails: Real or Not?
This is a topic that seems to have heated up in recent years on the internet. I feel qualified to discuss it since I spent 18 years as an...
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Doug Matthews
Aug 22, 20244 min read
How Your Car Might Give Away Your Politics
I have always thought that one's choice of car correlates with their political leaning. Studies in recent years in the United States have...
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Doug Matthews
Aug 10, 20244 min read
2024 Olympics Opening and Closing Ceremonies: Was There An Agenda or Not?
In ths post, I want to do two things: briefly analyze the actual production of the ceremonies and analyze the social commentary of them....
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Doug Matthews
Apr 16, 20246 min read
The Culture of Death in Canada, Part Three: A Financial Analysis
I have discussed the two main divisive issues regarding the current culture of death in Canada, namely abortion and euthanasia (also...
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Doug Matthews
Mar 23, 20245 min read
Artificial Intelligence as a Visual Art Form
I have been working with artificial intelligence (AI) as a visual art form for a couple of months as of this date. By that I...
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Doug Matthews
Dec 18, 20238 min read
The Culture of Death in Canada, Part Two: Euthanasia
I have previously argued that the Canadian abortion fiasco is the result of faulty reasoning by the judiciary, based on their assessment...
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Doug Matthews
Dec 6, 202312 min read
Military Ethos, the Realities of Life, and Sexual Misconduct at Canadian Military Colleges
Well, it's a top news story again. This time the government is reviewing the future of Canada's military colleges. Recent high profile...
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Doug Matthews
Dec 6, 202310 min read
The Culture of Death in Canada, Part One: Abortion
"In his 1995 encyclical letter The Gospel of Life (Evangelium Vitae), Pope John Paul II sounded an alarm. In the midst of a culture that...
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Doug Matthews
Nov 25, 20238 min read
Judiciary Responsible for Our Morally Ambiguous Society
In case you haven't noticed, our society is awash in moral ambiguity (the inability to tell right from wrong). Here are four examples....
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Doug Matthews
Nov 25, 20238 min read
Belonging
We all want to belong. The unprecedented popularity of social media provides irrefutable proof. In fact, we now know that having a sense...
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Doug Matthews
Nov 25, 20234 min read
From the Perspective of an Early Boomer
We all know about the Baby Boomer generation and its influence on the world. For the members of most other generations, the relationship...
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Doug Matthews
Oct 31, 20231 min read
Time for a Patriotic Speech
I wrote this very short post way back in 2018 and I still feel the same way. I can't put my finger on it, but no matter what the subject,...
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