Guy Davenport: Collage is retrospective in content, modern in its design. Kept up, it will recapitulate and summarize the history of its own being. Herakleitos: The untrained mind shivers with excitement at everything it hears….
Posts Published by Douglas Storm
Douglas Storm is a host and producer for Interchange on Bloomington, Indiana's community radio station WFHB.
"Why then do you try to 'enlarge' your mind? Subtilize it..."
Better Angels on Black Ships: Is There Evidence of Moral Progress?
Update Below: Pinker in 2000 Steven Pinker, language guru, descendant and somewhat apostate of Chomsky, has written a book about the “progress” of human morality measured via a reduction of wars and war casualties called…
Those Who Push These Plans…In the Name of Security
Conference on Internet Freedom Remarks Hillary Rodham Clinton Secretary of State Fokker Terminal The Hague, Netherlands December 8, 2011 Excerpts: After all, the right to express one’s views, practice one’s faith, peacefully assemble with others…
The Art of Remembering and the Act of Forgetting
Alice Walmart is buying Art to put into her Alice Dollhouse. The wealthy, the rulers, used to commission art not just buy it. I guess the only “art” that is commissioned anymore is the…
Antipodal Responses to Authority
Recall this from Kropotkin: throughout the history of our civilization, two traditions, two opposing tendencies have confronted each other: the Roman and the Popular; the imperial and the federalist; the authoritarian and the libertarian. Now,…
Of Thee I Sing!
In a post from October, The Shackles of Citizenry: Guilty In Any Land, I related this story from my days of employment with a DC-based publisher: I think I’ve told the following story to several of…
Love Alters Not, but Chemistry Does
SONNET 116 Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O no! it is an…
The Founding Document of American Oligarchy
The Mayflower Compact In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France, and…
Random Thinking on Manipulating Mind
Look how much are we encouraged to passively receive images? And in those images are cultural expectations. Why do we focus on testing? Testing creates a mind that will expect an answer that will be…
The Changing of the Oligarchical Guard
Jay P. Greene, as is his wont, writes something idiotic to favor his bias of market love. Again, as preface to everything I write contra Greene I want to remind you that he occupies and…