From Emerson’s book “Nature”: Standing on the bare ground, my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space, all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eyeball-I am nothing; I see all;…
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Hedges’ CBC Interview on Occupy Wall Street: 7 Minutes of Media Anatomy
My friend Chad posted a Youtube video of Chris Hedges (you read his work, right?) discussing the Occupy Wall Street situation and Hedges’ “involvement” in it with a CBC morning show called “Lang and O’Leary”. …
Occupy Wall Street: A Sit-in Defining Being Against the Doing
Two bits, more than a shave and haircut, on the “unrest” that appears to be morphing nicely into actual thought. Both of these from the web magazine The New Significance: “A web magazine exploring revolutionary…
The Shackles of Citizenry: Guilty In Any Land
Quaint, quaint, quaint…the good old days. Imagine a time when being an American citizen was justifiably a dream of humans from all over the world. This was the great experiment in democracy and finally, eventually,…
The Draft, the War at Home, and Occupy Wall Street
What do the demonstrations on Wall Street and those spreading across the country such as the one in Baltimore on Tuesday, praised and encouraged by the Baltimore Sun in an editorial with guts, and the…
The First Amendment Renamed the Gallows Doctrine
An unsound system requires as accurate a description and as severe an analysis as a sound one;…Error is not disarmed or disenchanted by caricature or neglect. (Frothingham, O. B., “Transendentalism in New England: A History”,…
Patriot’s Pen: VFW Asks “Is There Pride in Serving in the Armed Forces?”
I thought about writing an essay in response to this question posed by the VFW in their “Patriot’s Pen” contest. I thought about sending in my Daughters of the American Revolution essay from when I was…
Framing for Power: Becoming What We Oppose
Okay, I’ve been trying to suss out Lakoff and frames and metaphors of tribal response and so on. Today, after the dogs and I parted ways with the kids (they to school, us to find…
Framing the Family: No Moms Allowed
I’ll be honest, I feel somewhat in denial. Perhaps it’s a stage in a kind of intellectual grief. If, as I wrote yesterday, our politics is a “play of frames”–a “turning on” of certain metaphoric…
Framing Rules: God is Father, Father knows Best, Markets know Best…Market is God
Rank speculation from The Errant follows. Going with the flow to discover my unconscious frames. Do you know why GWB and BHO enacted financial policies design to funnel tax dollars into the vaults of “failed”…