You can't defund social welfare programmes without defunding the arts first. To defund healthcare you have to defund the arts. To defund schools, you first have to defund the arts.
You know where this is going.
The arts are the canary and it is lying dead at the bottom of the cage.
Newton was such a complex human. He seemed capable of holding many, sometimes opposing beliefs, at the same time.
Newton's conception of the physical world provided a model of the natural world that would reinforce stability and harmony in the civic world. Newton saw a monotheistic God as the masterful creator whose existence could not be denied in the face of the grandeur of all creation.
There's even a Wikipedia page dedicated to his religious beliefs.
If you are into learning about him there's also a rather good read, The Janus Faces of Genius, by Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs, that looks into his occult work.
Furthermore, for the sake of complexity, we can look into how, when he was the warden of the mint, he became responsible for the deaths of 19 people. He turned a largely ceremonial role into a task force, chasing down forgers and sentencing them to death.
Mate, it's just one accent. A mono-accent across an entire country. People from Glasgow and Edinburgh sound exactly the same... Can't tell them apart. And if you go to Wick, right at the top, same. It's wild.
I don't want to have to add a /s but I just know some fud is going to comment "well ackshurly".
Oh no, I get you. I think we are a similar age.
I was at the Reading Festival in '96 and I think offspring were playing.
There was a slightly older guy stood in the middle of the crowd shouting, you call this punk... This ain't punk. This ain't shit.
The kids were laughing at him.
This week in Glasgow Green Day played a gig and all I saw was middle aged men and their daughters wearing matching merch t-shirts.
I'm assuming at some point I travel back in time to '96 to try to stop this.