The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday November 18th, 2022
Ave mundus, humanitas te salutant and thanks for all the fish by Thanos Kalamidas
November 15th, 2022 marked something historically and environmentally significant, earth population reached 8 billion. Let’s see what other numbers peak. 1.2 billion people live in extreme poverty globally; nearly 100 million of them live in dangerous for their life situations. Every single day somewhere in this 8 million souls globe, 14.200 children under the age of 5 die due to poverty, lack of food, settler, medication, or …clean water.
More numbers? The global extinction rate in the animal kingdom is calculated at up to 8,700 species a year, or 24 a day and natural resources are dying with oil in a few years counting not in barrels but in drops. There are far more interesting numbers, but …who counts.
And whilst this is just a peak of the numbers nothing has change regarding the constantly melting iceberg, global warming. On the contrary things are getting worse and yes, nuclear power is back trending thanks to man-greed-stupidity -made wars and humanity’s need to charge …mobile phones, tablets, social media and likes.
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Weight #poem by Dr. Lawrence Nannery
“It’s really bright in there, in the bathroom with the theatrical vanity.
Peroxide Mary is in front of the mirror, busy with her implements.
She’s got the mascara, and the eyeliner, and the foundation and the powder and the lipstick,
But most of all she’s got the tweezers, and right now she’s working up inside her nose.”
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Jacques Maritain (18 November 1882 -23 April 1973) World Citizen Philosopher by Rene Wadlow
Jacques Maritain was a French intellectual who spent the years of World War Two in Princeton in the U.S.A. He was a friend of the anti-Nazi German author Thomas Mann who also lived in Princeton. Both men were among the active advocates of world citizenship. When Thomas Mann’s daughter, Elizabeth Mann Borgese was editing the world citizen journal Common Cause from the University of Chicago in the 1947-1950 period, Jacques Maritain wrote a number of articles for the journal along the lines of his thinking set out in his Man and the State.
At the time that he was writing for Common Cause he was the Ambassador of France to the Vatican, having been named ambassador by Charles De Gaulle from 1945 to 1948. Maritain had supported De Gaulle during the war when many French Catholics had sided with the Vichy government or were silent.
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Insert Brain Here 2.0 #026 #cartoon by Paul Woods
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