Is “Spring Break” a rational or an irrational event? In any case, it almost seems to be a calculated irrational media event — and the quote in the title seems like a clever invitation to “click here”. [1] One thing that I believe Milton Friedman may have overlooked in his “Free to Choose” analysis, is… Continue reading “Black Out with My Rack Out”
Tag: Human Brain Conditioner
Stages in the Transformation of Information from Writing Communities to Written Words
I acknowledge that the title I have chosen is rather broad. So I think I’d like to start off by sketching out the landscape, sort of painting a picture using very broad brush strokes … and then perhaps to suggest one case study in order to begin to flesh out more details. The entire Internet… Continue reading Stages in the Transformation of Information from Writing Communities to Written Words
Imaginary Relationships
I guess you could think of Bob Dylan’s “Every Grain of Sand” (which he played as an encore when I attended a concert of his just a few months ago) … As it is (IRL — more or less), I currently have Andy Summers’ album “The Golden Wire” (1989) playing in my headphones. 🙂 Whether… Continue reading Imaginary Relationships
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)
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
Popular Populism + Popularity Platforms
This week I will offer a little change of pace (and not merely because of a perceived lack of Ps). The other day (actually evening), I attended a “popular music” concert. How do I know it was “popular” music? By paying attention to the extremely quasi-woke Boomer radio station I regularly listen to (which is… Continue reading Popular Populism + Popularity Platforms
Mainstream Ignorance
There is something I want to write about related to this topic, but it’s a different topic that hasn’t completely crystalized into a coherent concept yet (at least not in my brain). So I will write about something similar — simply because it is more accessible (to my brain) right now. The other day I… Continue reading Mainstream Ignorance
Imma Throw the Book at You
I love this contraction! Book people prolly aren’t familiar with many of the popular time-saving contractions in use online, and this one is really oustanding. It’s actually a sort of double-(or triple?)-contraction: both “I’m” and “gonna” are contractions, and then the “-m-” is also a contraction of a bunch of apparently superfluous sounds and the… Continue reading Imma Throw the Book at You
Consumer Behavior and Belief
We consume a lot of things — including, I guess, things we aren’t even aware that we’re consuming … like ideas. I think a lot of our behavior follows patterns that are “animalistic” in nature. Like Mick Jagger (with the Rolling Stones) sang: we salivate like a pavlov dog. Apparently, our systems are based on… Continue reading Consumer Behavior and Belief
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