Yesterday featured an email exchange with a friend which ended in agreement “to disagree.” The recipient of my email resisted my criticism of Evangelical’s support of President Donald J. Trump. Another mutual friend, copied on our exchange, commented that the crux of the dissension appeared to be my opponents will to defend the concept…
Yesterday was blazing hot. The sun felt like you were too close to that charcoal grill. Yet my wife, the disciplined person that she is, prepared to embark on a lengthy walk in the neighborhood. I offered to go along, and she said Ok. She is serious about walking as a fitness regimen, while…
The world, meaning the wider, invisible context of my life, present in mind’s awareness is increasingly given over to chaos. It has not always been this way. There have been interludes of peace, of normality, when the rivers tranquil flow transported commerce, and ordinary ‘gossipy news’ that was a standard mix of fact and…
The fifties were a real high spot in the US…and you can feel the nostalgia for those years,for the ecstasy of power, when power held power.In the seventies power was still there,but the spell was broken.That was orgy time(war, sex, Manson, Woodstock).Today the orgy is over.The US, like everyone else,now has to face up…
Banality, lack of culture, and vulgarity do not have the same meaning here as they have in Europe. Or perhaps this is merely the crazy notion of a European, a fascination with an unreal America. Perhaps Americans are quite simply vulgar, and this meta-vulgarity is merely something I have dreamed up. Who knows? But…
The protest demonstrations following the May murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis have waned. Demonstrations have waned in other cites, except for Portland, Oregon. There demonstrations have continued for 55 consecutive nights against police brutality and other grievances. Last night, Mayor Ted Wheeler who joined the lawful demonstration was tear gassed. Portland has given…
Another morning dawns in splendor. Summer days are a gift, Natures welcome to all living things. I anthropomorphize of course. With our ancestors it just seems right and proper to give the world as presented to our senseS the label, “Nature.” It’s our term for the surrounding life-sustaining-matrix of sky, water, earth, vegetation and…
No ‘new’ big issue on my mind today,– just the usual ones. On Monday, Trump tweeted a photo of himself wearing a mask with a presidential seal, writing, “Many people say that it is Patriotic to wear a face mask when you can’t socially distance.”* CNN reported that the president’s falling poll numbers likely…
Monday morning breaks with brilliant sunlight. I can hear the voice of our granddaughter, about 9 months old, loudly expressing pre-language delight in another day of life, of shapes, colors, sounds, of endless adventure and opportunity for exploration. May she never lose her voice, misplace her passion. While preparing breakfast I noticed a wild…
SPECTACULAR ORGY (FREEDOM AMERICAN STYLE) But this is precisely the point:the high point of liberation, it’s logical outcome,is to be found in the spectacular orgy, speed, the instantaneity of change, generalized eccentricity. Politics frees itself in the spectacle,in the all-out advertising effect;sexuality frees itself in all its anomalies,and perversions; mores, customs, the body, and…
