I have a friend who keeps informing me about minute details from blockbuster movies — and I guess perhaps I also sometimes note some noteworthy piece of history in music. We are always attempting to trump each other’s facts about which morsel of information is more essential towards a well-balanced liberal arts education. Which brings… Continue reading That’s Entertainment — But It’s Not Amusing!
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Self-Expression vs. Consumerism
The World is My Medium analogous to expression “The World is My Oyster” Whereas “the world is my oyster” acknowledges the world as a set of conditions which creates a result, “the world is my medium” conceptualizes the world as a canvass upon which the self expresses itself. From this point of view, one way… Continue reading Self-Expression vs. Consumerism
Mob Rules (Blog of the Grotesque)
One of my favorite reading assignments in high school was a short book of extremely short chapters written by Sherwood Anderson, named “Winesburg, Ohio”. The first chapter, as I recall, was about an old man who scribbled down notes about the people in his hometown and then he crumpled up the scraps of paper he… Continue reading Mob Rules (Blog of the Grotesque)
The End of Objectivity
I only apologize a little bit for using this ambiguous title. I think there are indeed (at least) two different interpretations that both seem valid, but oddly both interpretations also seem relevant. One interpretation is that there is a point where objectivity will stop — and that is the interpretation that actually motivated me to… Continue reading The End of Objectivity
From Unprofessors versus Unprofessionals to Science versus Religion
I think in my life I’ve experienced more than my fair share of quacks. I even consider at least one such person (i.e., a “quack”) within the circle of my own close family members. Throughout the many years and decades, quacks are littered more or less all the way along my own path. Some I… Continue reading From Unprofessors versus Unprofessionals to Science versus Religion
One is Better than None
This week I met a woman from Ukraine (Tanya) who totally blew me away with how she reacted when I tried to explain to her why I prefer rational media to irrational media. I didn’t actually refer to them with these terms, because that might have been more confusing (since most “mainstream” portrayals are almost… Continue reading One is Better than None
I Want to Say Goo-Goo-Ga-Joob
My persistent followers (stalkers?) may have noticed by now (hopefully?) that I publish many blogs (I don’t actually count them, and sometimes I even forget that I maintain so many of them). Luckily, WordPress has a neato feature — I guess it’s an RSS feed tied to everything a WP user publishes — the feed… Continue reading I Want to Say Goo-Goo-Ga-Joob
Community Information versus Milieu Information
Since I have been writing about information, language, communities and milieus for quite some time, and since other people have also recently been increasingly commenting more on a wide variety of related issues, I’ve decided I should focus my attention on an insight that just happened to me in an “AHA!” sort of way. I… Continue reading Community Information versus Milieu Information
Technology (and Audience) Capture
Over the past few decades, the history of information technology has become littered with many examples of what I would like to refer to as “technology capture“. I think of this as essentially analogous to “audience capture”. Yet I feel as though in the technology industry there are a few caveats we should be particularly… Continue reading Technology (and Audience) Capture
I Read and I Write
Since I spend a lot of my time with a variety of tech gizmos, there are some people who seem curious to “figure out” what I do, and so they ask me to describe what I do. Since this has happened several times before, I have — over many years of their questions and my… Continue reading I Read and I Write
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