I do ground-truthing from a very folksy and small-townish perspective. I have found myself “stuck” here on the Central Oregon Coast, really, where my own destiny seems etched in the crumbling sandstone holding up the tourist-laden Highway 101. I’ve exhausted the labor market here, since the school district has banned me as a substitute teacher […]
Bruce Lee said: I don’t fear the man who has 10,000 kicks, I fear the man who has practiced 1 kick 10,000 times. — Wisdom for the Way And there is cultural and retail and consumer insanity doing the same thing over and over and over expecting different results, as in doing the same wrong […]
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Yes, that’s a friggin’ oil slick near the Statue of Liberty (May 1973) But a few things for starters: There are real-life people living here and there’s nothing badass about rooting for our pain. Not everyone in this city is a non-binary snowflake in a BLM t-shirt. We all don’t agree that rioting is a […]
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Nothing is more real than nothing. — Samuel Beckett, Malone Dies, 1951 Those who are never lost are forever lost. Only those who know they are lost and that life is a shipwreck have a chance to find their way to shore. The world’s great religions, including Taoism and Existential philosophy, understand that at the […]
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Oh, so much in the news, in the stupendous news of the UK and EU and USA and Klanada and Ukraine. So much news about Japan wanting nukes, wanting the rising sun banner, again, lifting up with its imperial rays. So-so much about how dead the lands are becoming. First it was those cold winters […]
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What if some UFO sightings are real?
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As UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson set the scene in spectacular fashion. All who sought to confine him to history, perished. He was the only one who seemed to survive, and reject, one diabolical scandal after the next – till now. No leader with such a destructive sense of presence could do anything but impair […]
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As energy-overconsumption and related regional wars still persist, there is at least one historical advance in human thinking worth celebrating. And that is — as we move well into the 21st century — the rapid decline in the hegemony of “Belief.” Political absolutism has historically required, or entailed, an exclusive ideological mandate, such as Marxist-Leninism […]
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In 1995, Umberto Eco assessed that ‘Ur-Fascism derives from individual or social frustration. That is why one of the most typical features of the historical fascism was the appeal to a frustrated middle class, a class suffering from an economic crisis or feelings of political humiliation, and frightened by the pressure of lower social groups. […]
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Once there was a democracy that had lost its way. Two irreconcilable views of government were tearing it apart. The first maintained that a democracy should be about more than creature comforts. A soulless democracy can also have such things. A true democracy, however, was about much more than this. It has to do with […]
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