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Category Archives: Sample Essays
Our Neighbor Committed Mass Murder The Other Day
Recently Neil Gaiman spoke of hiving a swarm of bees. He wrote with justifiable pride and a sweet gentleness. Not too many days ago my youngest son and I witnessed a swarm. It formed a cylinder perhaps sixty feet high. … Continue reading
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Tagged bees, hiving, murder, Neil Gaiman, shame, species, swarm
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Art’s Value
Our uncultured society places a low value on culture and art. We pay CEOs millions to remove jobs from America and strip us of everything worth a penny but we grouse at having to pay for a story, a song, … Continue reading
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Tagged art, culture, intellectual property, Jack L. Warner, music, painting, schmucks, synecdoche, value, Writing
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Speak Carefully, It May Be Forever
Carl Sagan wrote, “What an astonishing thing a book is. It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind … Continue reading
Ebook Bashing, Bashed
Gatekeepers mean nothing but control of extruded fiction product. Are you shocked that most self-published stuff is crap? Why do you ignore the fact that most publisher crap is crap, too. Sturgeon’s Law, which merely rephrases the Bell Curve. Publishers … Continue reading
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Tagged Bell Curve, content, ebooks, money, profit, publishing, quality, Writing
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Watch It, It’s TV
On TV the most reality one can find is LAW AND ORDER and a few other police procedurals. They deal with corruption. They deal with crime. PERSON OF INTEREST is another, dealing with universal, pervasive surveillance. News-like shows are farcical … Continue reading
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Tagged Discovery, history, indoctrination, intelligence, LAW AND ORDER, lies, Nazi, PERSON OF INTEREST, propaganda, surveillance, TV, WWII
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A Brief Yap About Civility In Public Discourse
Civility is based upon respect. We can disagree but, if I respect you, I can very likely respect your opinion, too, and our differences become a basis for discussion and mutual learning and compromise. That is how politics was supposed … Continue reading
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Tagged Adult, Civility, Kindness, Mature, Paradise, Public Discourse
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A Brief Word About Words
The English language is shrinking due to spellcheckers. Often, these expert systems lists cull related words that might work better but are not as popular. Often, these artificial intelligence robots offer limited choices based on commonality of usage. Often, spellcheckers … Continue reading
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Tagged dictionary, English, etymology, language, spellchecker, words
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Turning Fear’s Key
Religionist cons always offer eternal peace and love because they target the insecure even as they ramp up fear, hate, and anxiety. This combination of unrelenting pressure and an offer of refuge is irresistible to abused slaves. Hence Nietzsche’s dictum … Continue reading
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Tagged Corporations, corruption, cynicism, doom, fake, fear, greed, hate, money, pollution, Sociopaths, world
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