A Philosopher In Christchurch.

(Karl Popper (1902-1994) . Indeed it was you, Karl, who left Vienna not a moment too soon, as it turned out, bound for Christchurch to teach philosophy and also, for terms, science in Dunedin. You must have wondered at the Southern Alps. Did they remind you of the Dinaric Alps in Greece? You did a fine demolition job on Plato's 'The Republic', a closed society. You drew a line in the sand between science and pseudo-science, and your third world of knowledge is more truthful than the other two. But tell me, did you find in the Deep South an open society, or too many of its enemies? -May,2011.