I received a sardonic email from a friend this morning. The writer observed that “the sun is hot, ice cubes are actually made of water, and blueberries tend to be blue.” Such observations of the nature of reality, until recently uncontroversial, agreed upon without further ado as “common” by everybody except maybe those under…
A machine for seeing, a machine for hearing, and a machine for thinking…. very shortly to come with the boom in all things digital and the programmed abandonment of the analogue. How will the silence of the infinite spaces of art subsist? We are all seated in Plato’s cave, which has become the Sybil’s…
In my scheme of the German state, there will be no room for the alien, no use for the wastrel, for the usurer or speculator, or anyone incapable of productive work. — Adolf Hitler, Interview with George Sylvester Viereck, 1923 I came upon this quote yesterday. The words froze my mind. These are the…
The dawn breaks the darkness of night and the sky glows. I know that in time dawn will break within me today. I am in a dark mood. I’ve been thinking of the killing of the Washington Post journalist, Jamal Khashoggi. Thinking that he was safe in Istanbul he walked into the Saudi consulate…
Huzzah for ignorance! The election of the individual which we now have in the White House has given me pause to think about the nature of ignorance. The President and his supporters represent ignorance piled high and deep. I note that ignorance and power entails an escalation of violence, a resort to violence in…
Bro, she said that you are the guy. She remembers the attempted rape when you were classmates in High School. Just before your rant, your home-boys said that she was persuasive. You said, “It ain’t me babe.” You did not say, “I just don’t remember.” And you resisted the FBI investigation until forced by…
Sunday? I awakened as if in a time warp. My conscious mind was oriented toward the coming day at the office. Waking at 6AM, I left the house for Starbucks with the dawn barely showing to the east. In my dissociation, a day was missing. I glanced at the newspaper rack at Starbucks and…
I awakened this morning to a lawyer-dream. Dreams come to consciousness as the mind ascends from deep sleep to the boundary of a waking state. Awareness traces the dreams/nightmares that represent our hopes and fears. This is the first lawyer-dream that I remember having. In the dream I visualized the face of my attorney,…
I’ve never had a natural interest in politics. Politics has always seemed like back-office stuff. You know the run-of-the-mill chores that have to be done to keep society functioning. A means must be found for making judgements, the adjustments necessary to keep commerce flowing, roads paved, teachers teaching, etc. I never found politics appealing…
Metastasis Metastasis is a pathogenic agent’s spread from an initial or primary site to a different or secondary site within the host’s body; it is typically spoken of as such spread by a cancerous tumor. The newly pathological sites, then, are metastases. Wikipedia *** This morning I felt numb, unable to write in the…
