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  • Mentorship

    The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in the love and pursuit of knowledge. To know how to suggest is the art of teaching. Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881) What qualifies being a mentor? If the term…

  • All and None

    All and None

    Get-over unnecessary bias. Esteem one: hate the rest. Esteem NONE: esteem ALL. No human position is so absolute that there is no counter-position available. With ALL, certainty melts into insecurity. With NONE, security slips into uncertainty. Let go one: gain NONE. Grasp one: lose ALL. Increasing exchange: Opens-up & closes-down;…

  • Singularity & Plurality

    The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.  ~Friedrich Nietzsche My friend K. sent along this awesome…

  • Discipline & Control

    An op/ed piece by David Brooks accidentally (i suppose) lays out the very differences within the distinction DISCIPLINE vs. CONTROL. Brooks musings point out the hierarchical structure of book reading. That there are books which are perennial as well as those a person would read as a guilty pleasure at…

  • gospel music

    I am from a family that likes to sing. I started as a young boy in the mid-60’s singing along with my mom and aunts and my brother. Lots of religious music infuses my way of looking at the world. I am most attracted to the kind of gospel songs…

  • Society of Control

    Society of Control

    CLICK HERE TO READ POSTSCRIPT TO THE SOCIETY OF CONTROL BY Giles Deleuze Society is changing. In fact, society is always changing. From generation to generation, the alterations may sometimes seem slight. At other times, the variations may seem quite pronounced, almost severe enough to register as intra-cultural shock to…

  • Serving the Masses

    When the titanic apparatus of the mass-order has been consolidated, the individual has to serve it, and must from time to time combine with his fellows in order to renovate it. If he wants to make his livelihood by intellectual activity, he will find it very difficult to do this…