“Humanity’s pasthas been relatively brief:some 300,000 years as a species,a few thousand years of civilization.Its potential future, by contrast,could extend for billions of years,encompassing many trillions of sentient, rational beingsyet to be born.” The future – the adulthood of humanityis now in jeopardy. “If our species does destroy itself,”wrote Orville Schell, “it will bea…
It is Wednesday morning. I am certain that the spirited discussion the night before about the realms of science and theology is working to transform my psyche, the hidden submerged dialog within, — when I wake up remembering and thinking about words that were written, comments made, and positions taken with strong emotion. Eight…
The morning comes, and I am awake. I ought to be thankful since I am alive. I understand that. Life goes on until it does not. We are in a condition of drought here in our area. Spring is the usual “rainy season.” That is another way of saying that we get plenty of…
Children are among the most expensive purchasesthat average consumers are likely to make in the course of their entire lives.In purely monetary terms, children cost morethan the most luxurious state-of-the-art car, a round-the-world cruise, even a mansion to be proud of. Worse still, the total cost is likely to grow over the years,and its…
Advertising is one of the cultural mediums that has the most sanctioned lying. Keeping people in a constant state of lack, in perpetual desire, strengthens the marketplace economy. Lovelessness is a boon to consumerism. And lies strengthen the world of predatory advertising. — Excerpt, All about Love, New Visions by bell hooks p. 47…
Our epoch does not love itself. And a world that does not love itself is a world that does not believe in the world: we can believe only in what we love. That is what makes the atmosphere of this world So heavy, stifling, and anguished. The world of the hyper-market, which is the…
Yesterday in the morning I took a walk in Braeburn Marsh. I returned at the end of the day, as the sun was setting. Luck is being at the right place at the right time. I feel lucky when I experience beauty, or a moment of extraordinary accomplishment. Venturing off the path, the ground…
I have signed up for a seminar course on May 22nd, so I am pressing forward to finish a book that will be central to the topic of discussion. Eric Fromm was referred to in the chapter entitled, Love as Praxis: Critical Theory and Pscyhoanalysis, which I am reading. I have not read Eric…
Jesus is not coming back! Is that statement ironic, troubling, laugh-out-loud funny, or simply nonsensical? It depends entirely upon the reader. What do you bring to those words arranged in syntax? What mental image forms, involuntarily? Do you experience a strong emotional response: relief, dread… The meaning is involuntary after all, the effect of…
Where did One go? Am I still One when I analyze, or am analyzed? Yes, but with an unidentifiable identity, without a fixed center, or mortiferous* repetition; serial music rather, a dance improvised and yet supported by an underlying, open order. …a long history that never stops coming back, catching up with us. p….
