Mainstreaming a Different Mainstream

I remember the first time I attended a Quaker Meeting (for Worship) many decades ago just like it was yesterday. It was an awe-inspiring experience. I guess maybe when Simon and Garfunkel wrote “The Sound of Silence”, they might have been trying to capture a similarly phenomenal experience. I am often reminded of this experience… Continue reading Mainstreaming a Different Mainstream

All Through Our Existence: The – A – My

I am somewhat surprised that what I intend to write about this week may indeed not be a HUGE leap from what I wrote about last week. Many things have been going through my mind — or maybe I should say: many influences. When I finally came up with the title for this post, it… Continue reading All Through Our Existence: The – A – My

This Life is Different

I know a woman who is a singer / songwriter — more or less. She’s written some Christmas-themed songs, and she is currently on tour singing some of these and also some of her favorites. I visited one of her events and she sang a song that I feel was (at least somewhat) intended for… Continue reading This Life is Different

Mediation Between Rational Media and Real World Advertising Interests

A little over a week ago, I posted a review of a blog post which mentioned using Google to search for typing.com [1] and of course I was amused that someone (and indeed people in general) still feel an urge to continue using irrational media. [2] Curious nonetheless, I went to check out typing.com —… Continue reading Mediation Between Rational Media and Real World Advertising Interests

Weird

Weird seems to be one of those “Words of the Day”. Last night, something occurred to me along those lines. Often, when I warn people about the propaganda they consume regularly via Google, they mention something peculiar (or weird?) — that if they click on something, or type something into Google’s search box, that the… Continue reading Weird

Quantity & Quality

Last week I wrote about what I consider to be an inordinate amount of trust in monetary instruments (see “Nothing is Certain but Death and Taxes“). This week I will follow up with a consideration of something that also seems to be trusted religiously: the specter of science. I have long since been stupendously amazed at… Continue reading Quantity & Quality

Order + Dis-Order

My thinking about the complexity of the world was significantly influenced by a book recommendation I followed up on about a decade ago. It was summer, so one of my friends asked about influential books … and a friend of hers mentioned “The Social Construction of Reality” (by Berger & Luckmann). I decided to read… Continue reading Order + Dis-Order

A Deep Dive Behind the Editorial Wall

At the moment my brain is brimming with a bunch of interconnected ideas … and this one needs to be addressed first of all. Many years ago, when I first published my controversial ideas (way before I revised the nomenclature in “Hope & Change: Flipping the F-word & Removing the Old-Fashioned R-word” [ https://remediary.com/2020/11/06/hope-change-flipping-the-f-word-removing-the-old-fashioned-r-word ],… Continue reading A Deep Dive Behind the Editorial Wall

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