Jazzy D's Soul Notes

I listened to the radio in bed this morning for an hour - as when i looked out of my window it was misty and cold looking - so being under the duvet was the better option. It was as there was a fascinating Reith Lecture on BBC Radio 4. Details below.

"Colour
The Reith Lectures, Kwame Anthony Appiah: Mistaken Identities

The philosopher and cultural theorist Kwame Anthony Appiah argues for a world free of racial fixations.

He tells the story of Anton Wilhelm Amo Afer. He was five years old when he was brought from the Gold Coast to Germany in 1707, educated at a royal court and became an eminent philosopher. He argues that this elaborate Enlightenment experiment illuminates a series of mistaken ideas , including that there is a "racial essence" which all members of that race carry. Modern science long ago disproved this, as almost all of the world's genetic variation is found within every so-called racial group. Instead, "race is something we make; not something that makes us."

The lecture is recorded in front of an audience at the British Council in Accra, Ghana. The series is presented and chaired by Sue Lawley"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080t63w

BBC 4 had some great documentaries on Sunday night kicking off with one on dinosaurs and how they became mythological beasts of folklore before modern palaeontology,. and the other was on the 2000 year old computer from Greece , a mechanical device that plotted eclipses and the movement of the planets to a very high degree of accuracy.

Beforehand watched episodes of the Simpsons and Futurama, as an alternative to the gushing fawning sycophantic proclivities of the day. I don't get very excited about Jubilees, and this one seems to go on and on.

I recall going into the country for a picnic and a walk the day of the silver bash to get away from it. I don't recall a thing about the golden one either but then in 1992 I was on holiday when that one happened. There does seem to be a lot of wall to wall coverage of the current one., and I will look forward to the end of the day and normality resumes. Plus Star Trek Generations is on Channel 4 at the moment but cousin is a royalist so that is out of the question .





At least Spot is back to normal now having squandered his money in the last few days. Tomorrow I get paid and I shall be out all day, starting in Sittingbourne, and ending up in Sandwich via Deal and Canterbury.. I have also transferred ninety from PayPal into my bank account as I need to get a new laptop mains adaptor.

Then Thursday Ashford and Hythe, Friday Sittingbourne and Tenderden via Maidstone before the weekend to the Sussex coast