It is the very mind itself that leads the mind astray, –of the mind do not be mindless. –Takuan Sōhō Voltaire once said, “Le mieux est l’ennemi du bien,” — the perfect is enemy of the good. A few of us, together around a table at Barnes & Noble last night, and several more…
We engaged in a discussion about pop culture last night. As enjoyable as that was, after a good night’s sleep I feel unease, that there’s little left to talk about. The examples which we cited were no longer current, freshly minted. We discussed Dune, the film recently released, October 22 of 2021. The book…
The holiday season approaches. First up, Thanksgiving is on the last Thursday of this month. The day of feasting is about nothing less than what the day is called. Thanksgiving is the holiday I appreciate the most. I do not mind helping with the preparations in the kitchen, peeling potatoes is my area of…
Like practitioners of the Baroque,we too are irrepressible creators of images,but secretly we are iconoclasts -not in the sense that we destroy images,but in the sense that we manufacture a profusion of imagesin which there is nothing to see.Present-day images – be they video images, paintings,products of the plastic arts, or audiovisual or synthesized…
Sunday morning is windy, with a light rain. I cannot complain as the trees need moisture. Soon the ground will freeze… Vegetation will begin the winter season of sleep. Life can be hard. And life can be serendipitous, — the feel of a strange looking rock you happened to find, in your pocket. Is…
When things, signs or actions are forced from their respective ideas, concepts, essences, values, points of reference, origins, and aims, they embark upon an endless process of self-reproduction. Yet things continue to function long after their ideas have disappeared, and they do so in total indifference to their own content. The paradoxical fact is…
Since the world is on a delusional course,we must adopt a delusional standpointtowards the world. Better to die from extremesthan starting from the extremes. Excerpt, The Transparency of Evil – After The Orgy by Jean Baudrillard Properly speakingthere is now no law of value,merely a sort of epidemic of value,a sort of general metastasis…
In the Meantime By Max Garland The river rose wildly every seventh spring or so, and down the hatch went the town, just a floating hat box or two, a cradle, a cellar door like an ark to float us back into the story of how we drown but never for good, or long….
You are kidding of course? Start over again? Pardon my laughter as I am laughing so hard that it hurts… Are you meaning to say that we Americans have reached a fold point in our history, that our society as it now stands is unsustainable? Do you really think that conditions are in such…
I have been thinking about René Descartes. Descartes made a world changing discovery on November 10, 1619. Descartes was a 17th century mathematician, upper class, university educated and was well-traveled in Europe. Descartes, uneasy with his learning based upon Medieval scholasticism, couldn’t discount nagging doubt triggered by the discoveries of Galileo, by the rise…
