You run ahead — Are you doing it as a shepherd? A third case would be the fugitive. Do you want to walk along? Or walk ahead? Or walk by yourself? One must know what one wants and that one wants. — excerpt Twilight Of The Idols or How to Philosophize With A Hammer…
Did you play ‘pretend’, when you were about five or six years old? I did. What if a large majority of voters succumb to anti-immigrant, populist propaganda and decide to close the borders make life more difficult for those already inside the country….. and what if in such a country the voters, despite such…
After out patient surgery earlier in the day our daughter was resting. She chose The Matrix film as entertainment. We waited for the medication to arrive from Walgreens and refreshed our memories of this great film from 1999. There are many lines of dialog from the characters Morpheus, Neo, and Trinity that are as…
…in his or her own way of course. As you’d expect, I continue to read Slavoj Zizek — with more care the second time around. The European intellectual wrestles with the problem that confounds me: how to address a virulent ethnic hatred that matastasizes as a ravenous cancer in our society. Our President and…
The emotionally intelligent person – knows that love is a skill, not a feeling, and will require trust, vulnerability, generosity, humor, sexual understanding, and selective resignation. The emotionally intelligent person – awards themselves the time to determine what gives their working life meaning and has the confidence and tenacity to try to find an…
I woke this morning to the chords of Bruce Springsteen’s anthem Born To Run. As you may know the song is a bitter-sweet salute to life-in-America. Also, I am basking in the afterglow of viewing the film Ford vs Ferrari for the second time. The cinematic story telling was superb, featuring Matt Damon as…
Couldn’t settle on an idea earlier in the day. I decided to just read. Sometime another’s words give birth to my own. To be human is not a given. It’s an achievement, a task of a life time, worthwhile but imperfectly accomplished. Old Heraclitus once observed that the majority never awaken to their opportunity/responsibility…
This morning according to the NPR newscast the President is to visit the border region between our country and Mexico. I visited that part of our country once, many years ago. Traveling from Chicago to San Francisco on the California Zephyr the train stopped for about twenty minutes somewhere in New Mexico. I marveled…
Not that I have lost any hope. All the goodness and the heroisms will rise up again, then be cut down again and rise up. It isn’t that the evil thing wins — it never will — but that it doesn’t die. I don’t know why we should expect it to. It seems fairly…
I was intrigued by these words from Heidegger. You will need to read carefully, and at least twice for his meaning to clarify for your mind. Written in the early years of the 20th century, the words are prescient to our condition a century into the future, the 21st century. By disavowing itself in…
