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Taking a razor to toxic masculinity
Today, the battle for men’s souls reached an extraordinary new frontier: men’s shaving brands. On Tuesday, Gillette released an ad that takes stock of a handful of cultural issues that have always lingered just beneath the surface but became full-blown… Continue reading
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The Authentic Human Behavior of Mad Men
This is, then, a hopeful ending, not just for Don, and for the other characters — all of whom reinvented themselves professionally and personally, and showed signs of having learned from past mistakes — but for America itself. Hopeful is… Continue reading
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Hilarious Madden 15 Ad
LOL This is hilarious. I really do not care all that much for football or video games. And certainly, I do not want to just hand out free advertising venues. But, come on… you have to admit when something is… Continue reading
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Searching for Integrity: The Politics of Mindfulness in the Digital Economy – Nomos Journal
Fascinating article by a friend of my dear brother, Carl S. With the proliferation of training courses espousing the benefits of yoga and meditation, critics have coined the term “McMindfulness” to describe a cottage industry whose profit motives appear to… Continue reading
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PLATFORM Magazine Issue 04: ‘Portrait of a Boy’ by Platform Mag
ISSUU is a wonderful resource to which you can gain access by connecting to it through your Facebook account or by signing up. Besides The Arts United journal which my friends in Texas are doing, I also found at ISSUU… Continue reading
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Oppression and the Lie of Ommission
The celebrity trolls who currently reign on commercial television, who bill themselves as liberal or conservative, read from the same corporate script. They spin the same court gossip. They ignore what the corporate state wants ignored. They champion what the… Continue reading
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Digital Disconnect: Life in the InterDebtWork
If we are going to stay on top of how the Interweb and its diverse intrusions into our life are in fact the very stuff of Control, it behooves us to never forget how global corporate capitalism–the InterDebtWork–is always after better… Continue reading
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Millennials Come of Age: America’s Most Stressed Generation
More information to digest concerning the growing chasm as we move from the Society of Discipline (of which Boomers & Gen-X make the last generation) into the Society of Control (of which Millennials make its first generation). First came… Continue reading
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How do #Millennials Define #Happiness? | Breathe and Smile
Very good take on the situation from a GenY perspective with a link to the important notion of “Betterness.” There used to be a ladder to success. It was the college→good job→marriage→house→family→cushy retirement. Sure, not everyone made it, there were… Continue reading
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Welcoming Generation Y
Some of you probably have noticed that the posts over the last few days have appeared to be the journals of a high school student. That is because they are. It has long been an intention of mine to open… Continue reading
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New Pew Survey of U.S. Parents
While European legislators are considering adding a ‘right to be forgotten’ to data privacy laws to give internet users some control over who owns their data, U.S. parents are worried about the reputational damage of their teens’ online activities and what… Continue reading
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The uncanny valley of Internet advertising: Why do creepy targeted ads follow me everywhere I go on the Web? – Slate Magazine
If you ask an Internet ad guy to defend himself—to explain why you, dear Web surfer, should feel comfortable letting him serve you ads based on everything you do online—you’ll likely hear two arguments. First, he’ll tell you that targeted… Continue reading
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