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The West didn't really exist as a concept outside of agriculture though (it came to being well after agriculture had bestowed the mindset of man's dominion over everything). Most who were offered the alternative of what we'd now call the West's way of life refused for very obvious reasons. Force, expropriation and slavery saw to it that no choice was eventually given. There are plenty of historic examples. Jefferson, I think it was, who wrote to his mate about how kidnapped indigenous people always returned, whereas those kidnapped by indigenous often disappeared back to them even after their release. The same story with those shipped to England to view our amazing achievements, only for them to swiftly return home confused by the stupidity of it. It makes sense, really. There was no real impediment to subsistence, so why would anyone want to trade that for toiling in the fields to harvest a monocrop that could be wiped out with one bad season? It takes a massive leap to suggest that was a better system than what previously existed, on any level. Agriculture was better once you'd chopped down the trees though. Parasitic, or human supremacist would be my preferred descriptions. The latter because it pisses off those that are anti racist (correctly) but are comfortable with the parasitic economic system (because they're middle class and it benefits them). In other words, they're perfectly happy with oppression and the perverted viewpoint that one being is more special than another, but not when it comes to an arbitrary sub-group of one particular species.

For those that like a bit of 90s shoe gazing, this is a powerhouse. To be played loud! Trivia fact is that Toni Halliday is the vocalist on Leftfield’s Not Forgotten. Oh, and the video is Dandy compliant, featuring as it does a sheep. What more could you want.

Domestically, we’ve become more difficult to beat. Less stupid goals being given away, but you still know the next ones just round the corner. We are playing some good stuff in patches (2nd half Killie etc) which we just weren’t doing at all early on this season, but we still cannot string a full 90 mins together. That’s a tough run, it will be interesting to see how we perform. The trouble is, I don’t think any of us can say with any certainty what we will get served up by this lot…

This is the bit I’m not sure about. We did, but surely because we’d not discovered an alternative. Once we did, we left all that in the rear view mirror pretty quickly. I know that’s not true if all cultures in the world - there are certainly examples in the americas to support your point. But in the “west” it seems incontrovertible. Parasitic is a good term for it. But even parasites are a product of evolution and pretty successful ones at that. Till they kill their host… Meanwhile, COYR!!

Like most pop stars, she can't actually sing.

I used to feel that way, but not any more. Other than Aberdeen and Scotland, couldn’t tell you the last time I watch a game that didn’t involve my club or country. Money has killed my enthusiasm. It’s a bunching over paid mercenaries now, no culture or heart in a club any more. I’ve expressed my worry’s about the dons in recent months and the lack of Scottish players for that reason. Milne and lobban are a godsend, hoping Marshall comes through and we sign Watson and another couple of Scots in the near future. Clinging on to shinnie, a diehard don, and a lesser extent devlin, love that type of Scot in our team. Means something to me. I’d even take Gunn in goal, although I’m 50/50 on mitov right now. what was sad this week was I had no interest in our European game. It was even less interesting than a preseason friendly. Didn’t watch and simply checked the score after work. I’ve never done that before where I had so little interest. The format for European football doesn’t inspire me at all, and really I had little interest in our European campaign. Worrying for me! I’ve also said this before. Living here in the states for 30 years, I appreciate the banter here as it keeps me connected with my roots and I really enjoy talking Aberdeen and Scotland. But that’s it, most other football is pretty dull now. Saying all of this, I’m intrigued by the world cup in a way, as we have some more unknown teams, playing Haiti will be different, plus playing Brazil and Morocco will be different and fun. But will I watch other World Cup games, unlikely. Bit off topic for crazy American politics!

Now that we've got all of this season's losses out the way early, should be a certainty.

I would be genuinely lost without football in my life. It's a daily escape from the world that enhances my life in terms of both usually having a game to look forward to and maintaining friendships.

Except for the majority of human existence, we did live in symbiosis with the planet. There is a far greater body of evidence that we're hardwired to do just that (as every other species on the planet does), rather than the post agricultural world based on parasitic systems. Parasitic systems that always consume themselves over time. Mainly because they ignore time in their myths and stories (our myths being progress and growth). Good lad. There's no contradiction there. It's not for anarcho-primitives to be dictating systems to people. It's completely possible to understand that the only workable human existence is that of anarcho-primitivism, whilst recognising that the only way to reach that point is through civilisation's collapse. With anarcho-primitivism, there's nothing to be designed or systematised, it just simply is. Humans living as nature intended - universally connected - as every other species does. It's not something you can cajole people into, or have a dictator, or a democracy, set the rules. That doesn't absolve anyone of individual responsibility, but there is no feasible way to enact anarcho-primitivism within the existing system, so you basically have to choose your own level of adherence to it. I choose to watch fitba, which is obviously just a circus, but I can suspend disbelief to offer some relief. You'd go fairly mental quite quickly otherwise. He's probably got a job and lives in a hoose too, the heathen. If he doesn't already, you can point him to the writings of Darren Allen and Tom Murphy for some light entertainment.

I would also add we seem to have our shit together far more now than when we started the campaign. I think if we plasyed the same fixtures now we would do better, possibly even sneak the playoff round but no better than that. Certainly wouldn't take six off athens

They do have big wings. I was walking my dog by the canal in Inverness a few years back and whilst off balance picking up his business i failed to notice a swan come up the bank about 20 metres down the path. Only realised with it's first hiss and the sensation of the lead being pulled from hand as my dog charged at it. Heart was in my mouth when it spread it's wings as I know they can break bones but, thankfully, Alaskan Malamutes are pretty fucking big themselves and when he got closer to said swan, said swan shat it and got back in the water pronto. It ended up swimming alongside and hissing at us for the next few minutes.

Not what I am listening to, but more what I just read and about music. Aberdeen, or Kincorth to be more precise, actually has a celebrated song writer. Graham Edwards, from Kincorth, had written hits fir Avril Levine, Britney Spears and Christina Aguiela, amongst others. Article about him on the P&J website and nice to hear of another musuc related success from the city. A belter of a line in the article. "Graham was born in 1959 and brought up in the cold Gorbal-esque tenements of Caisdykes Drive, Kincorth."

If he was going to be binned before this I suspect it would have been done by now.

I recall watching Mitch Bavidge cutting his teeth at Stoney Juniors before heading to the Highland League. Played in the Hive team that got to the last 16 of the Scottish before getting knocked out by eventual runners-up Linlithgow Rose......73-ish?

I'm still unconvinced that connect 4 boy will be raselickbyrawaybutbigman manager by the time we kick off tomorrow.

Sha la la la and indeed push push

Are we sure we’re not taking Clarkson’s issue with sitting on the bench too literal? My interpretation was “I need to be playing not sitting on the bench” rather than “I refuse to sit on the bench”. Of course, it could just be complete bollocks to begin with.

Stevie Wonder - I’ll be loving you always

Lenny Kravitz - Always on the run

Although didn’t she do some kind of deal with them so it always gets played first whenever anyone asks for Xmas music? I know record companies have been at that kind of thing since before Elvis, but demeaned her in my eyes. A long way from being photographed on a bed with Bobbie Gillespie!

Chesney Hawkes - I am the one and only

I’m in my 50s, grew up in the Shire and have spent the bulk of my life living in cities, including some of the biggest on the planet. i think we’re pretty fucked. Our genetically hardwired desire to consume calories where we can find them and to take rest where we can leads us away from any kind of existence in symbiosis with the planet On trips like this week’s to Prague (I’m as guilty as anyone else) I can’t help but wonder at our never ending drive to build more and more infrastructure and concrete over the world, fly planes to places we don’t need to go, and so on. The end result has to be catastrophic. There we all are in Irish pubs in Prague drinking overpriced beer so we can watch some men kick a ball about. Burning a load of fossil fuel to get there and then back again. It’s insane. There was an auld wifie in my village who had been to Aberdeen once, but as she said, “I didnae really like it, so I nivver went back”. In a similar vein, my son’s an anarcho-primitivist. I can totally see why. But he still came to Prague. And if I was scraping a living in a developing country somewhere I’d want better for my kids and would likely flee to the city. The incentives are all stacked against us. We’ve become our own worst enemies. We’re doomed.

Debbie Gibson - Only in My Dreams

Not sure which side of the fence I’m on re our abilities in Europe. Given some of the “diddies ” in the Conference League (recognising they all finished above us) then we weren’t completely out of our depth and with a kind draw might have scraped into the next round. But that’s about it. We were certainly not competitive in any meaningful sense. I guess that places me in the Moog camp I had the absolute fear we might sneak our way into the Europa League. Can you imagine? We’d have been horsed, week in, week out.