Not too long ago, I was introduced to a candidate who is running for the Illinois Senate. I took a piece of campaign literature which I kept. I’ve examined the message and the layout of the piece at some length. The banner tagline is three words that sum up this candidates programme. Stimulated to…
This is one of those most sad songs, MacArthur Park. And everyone loved to hear it, to sing it in 1967. How can one not take Buddhism seriously? The impermanence of all things, life as suffering, etc. Everything passes, becomes unhinged, fails it’s intended function, etc. Acceptance of such an assessment of our condition…
Naturally you will ask, “What position are you hoping to fill? What are the qualifications?” My answer: I hope to interview candidates for the position of a “god.” That’s right we have an opening for a qualified deity. Similar to the CEO of a corporation, we need a symbol, a totem upon which we…
I’ve always enjoyed running. As a kid if I could run somewhere rather than walk, I would run. Around my 40th year, I began running every day, which served my general health, and “the kid in me” felt the old enjoyment. It has been a few years since the daily habit of running, and…
Today is Sunday. My memory of yesterday is almost featureless. I recognize that is the aftermath of low blood sugar. Diabetics are aware of the condition. The remedy is easy under normal circumstances. Just consume something, fruit, a cookie, anything with sugar. I mention this to highlight how organic our sense of time is,…
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…
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…
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…
Americans believe in facts,but not in facticity.They do not know that factsare factitious*, as their name suggests.It is this belief in facts,in the total credibility of what is done or seen,in this pragmatic evidence of things and an accompanying contempt for what may be called appearancesor the play of appearances –— a face does…
