Is it not interesting how we label time? A week ago I made the mistake of assuming it was the Labor Day weekend — a week early. I arrived at that conclusion despite evidence to the contrary. The joke was on me. Emotionally, my internal reality began to anticipate the three day weekend,– and…
I have completed the preface of a book, AGNOTOLOGY [The Making & Unmaking of Ignorance], edited by Robert N. Proctor and Londa Schiebinger. The subject is “ignorance,” the history and the function of ignorance. I was intrigued to select this book because there is current an outbreak of studied, deliberate ignorance, ignorance which is…
The Socrates Café group met last night. As with the protocol for the last few sessions, a Go-To-Meeting video link was used. There were six images of participants, in a double line across the screen. For many reasons a digital representation of a human being lacks the vibrancy of physical presence. We are at…
What to write this morning? There’s Trump-In-Kenosha, the topic of the President’s visit to a place where I have spent some time. I know very well that I’d write more, what I have said many times before about this man. I’d recount a litany of lies spoken, words which have nothing to do with…
We are on the edge of a storm according to a writer in The Atlantic and another in The Federalist. At the end of today’s edition of the NYT The Daily update of articles, I read a paragraph that stated that we are locked in a cold “civil war” as a nation. The journalist…
Monday, a week before Labor Day. It’s early, and all is quiet outside. Traffic is minimal. The atmosphere is like a relative silence before an anticipated storm breaks with fury and unforeseeable destruction. There has been civil unrest in Portland, Oregon and Kenosha, Wisconsin. In those places members of Trump-world, armed, and intent on…
Today is Sunday. I remember when growing up in North Carolina, Sunday was referred to as “the day of rest.” That meant that it was customary to spend a portion of the morning in attendance at a church “worship” service. Worship meant minimally that respect was shown for a shared tradition of stories and…
There is a lot more offered on the internet than one can consume, even when one attempts to be judicious. Recently I’ve listened to a podcast by Scott Galloway, a marketing professor at NYU. I like his direct, no-nonsense manner of speaking. If you’d like to sample the podcast, The Professor G Show, CLICK…
As mentioned previously, I did not watch the Republican convention. It was widely known that the Party was intent upon rebranding the brash, petulant, infantile Trump, as a stolid law n’ order leader, — “just the man that we need.” I can’t stomach the lies. A lesson of life, learned by dint of experience,…
54One should not let oneself be misled:great intellects are skeptics…..The vigor of mind,its freedom through strengthand superior strength, is proved by skepticism.Men of conviction simply do not come into considerationwhere the fundamentals of value and dis-valueare concerned. Convictions are prisons.They do not see far enough,they do not see things beneath them:but to be permitted…
