Earlier this morning I was trying to begin to really grapple with the determinism of guys like Pinker and Dennett (these are liberal determinists–meaning they have good intentions, really, they promise with a spoon full…
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Young Earth Activists and the Gap Theory
Folks are working very hard to “prove” their “faith” is “scientific.” I had no idea it was such a massive industry. A Facebook comment today on this story, “Vi Simpson: The Woman Who Punked The…
Against Oligarchical Roundtables In Education (and really, everywhere else too)
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow It’s that simple really. All we do now is ask the wrong questions and…
Facilitating First Impressions: Education and theTechnological Teat
A book will “drop” at the end of the month called “Situations Matter: Understanding How Context Transforms Your World,”. At the link is a brief interview with the author where he makes one point that…
The Uses of Revolution
“A revolution, then, is a way of putting power in different hands.” Guy Davenport Jamie Warren, Associate Professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College (and former Bloomington resident and graduate student in the Indiana…
Stand from betwixt me and the Sun…Thoughts on Enclosure
I’m working on a longer piece intended to be about parallels between eighteenth century land enclosures in England as they became legalized via Parliamentary Acts at the behest of vested private interests and the current…
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…
Human Potential, Time Discipline and Post-Edenic Mind
There is only rendering, the rendered, upon which there is thought. This is the basis of our understanding of mind. Ruskin, Freud, Proust…Bernays, Goebbels, Gossage and so on. In one sense there is an undiscovered…
The Railroad Rides Upon Us: On the Pursuit of Uneventfulness
We embody a type of greatness. We are of capacity. We are of potential. And yet we are nearly entirely imbecilic in body and mind. Of what, on what, in what do we spend our…
Leaning on Straws: Further Comments on Jon Stewart
Yesterday’s post that centered on Jon Stewart in the hopes of making a larger point about our inability to see just how we are “molded and mollified” by our systems of message conveyance instigated a…