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  • Tolerating power

    Even when you do not like or respect given authority figures, most of us will respond without resistance to such POWER (mana) up to the point this becomes intolerable or those who wield authority become powerless. As human tolerance at… Continue reading

  • Hard terror, soft terror

    The acts of radicalized “Jihadists” often hits our front pages and tablet news apps. It is clearly brutal. It is clearly intolerant. It clearly appalling. Yet alongside all of this clear terroristic activity are other forms of violence and inhospitable behavior.… Continue reading

  • Frank Zappa, John Cage, Patti Smith & others celebrate William S. Burroughs at the Nova Convention

      In 1978, after many years of living…Source: dangerousminds.netIn 1978, after many years of living in London and Tangiers, William S. Burroughs decided to return to his home country. For a small group of artistic weirdos, this was a significant… Continue reading

  • The trouble with Zuckism | PandoDaily

    Good engagement on the disconnect between how many people complain about Facebook despite its growing profitability. How do we square Facebook’s data with the complaints we hear about the company — complaints that go far beyond the usual ones about… Continue reading

    The trouble with Zuckism | PandoDaily

  • Centered and Whole

    Finding new metrics of success is not just for women. It is for women and men who want to be whole, centered, and happy human beings. That means being whole in mind and body, reason and emotion, work and family.… Continue reading

    Centered and Whole

  • 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

    Digital Disconnect: Life in the InterDebtWork

  • The Insanity of Being Perfectly “Sane”

    Originally posted on Earthling Opinion:   –by Thomas Merton (Mar 29, 2013) One of the most disturbing facts that came out in the Otto Adolf Eichmann trial –a Nazi lieutenant colonel who, because of his organizational talents and ideological reliability, was given the… Continue reading

    The Insanity of Being Perfectly “Sane”

  • The RSA Animate Revolution: Ideas in the age of information overload – YouTube

    Acclaimed popular psychologist Richard Wiseman joins celebrated RSA Animate illustrator Andrew Park to unveil new evidence that shows that RSA Animate videos not only entertain, but educate in a surprisingly effective way. via The RSA Animate Revolution: Ideas in the… Continue reading

  • Secret and Lies of the Bailout | Politics News | Rolling Stone

    It has been four long winters since the federal government, in the hulking, shaven-skulled, Alien Nation-esque form of then-Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, committed $700 billion in taxpayer money to rescue Wall Street from its own chicanery and greed. To listen… Continue reading

  • No Local – Why Small-Scale Alternatives Won’t Change The World, Greg Sharzer – Zero Books Blog

    Thanks to my good brother Joseph Carr for passing this book review along. …This is not a book about the successes and challenges of a particular community garden or biodiesel scheme. That research is important, but it’s already been done:… Continue reading

  • Poll Quants & the Book of Life

    I’ve been unpacking my notions about the Society of Control a lot in the last few months. Primarily of late, this centers on developing the notion that control is about accounting… we use a mathematical model to translate the Life-World… Continue reading

    Poll Quants & the Book of Life

  • How do we Shape Souls Without Longing?

    Nice looking backward at Bloom’s Closing of the American Mind. Deneen correctly locates the import of the text in its prescient concern with the dis-ease of indifference. Today we live in a different age, one that so worried Bloom—an age… Continue reading

  • The Book of Life

    A recent Truthout.org article speaks to our living in an impoverished age. The issue with our impoverishment arises from not comprehending how the “plutocracy” is a conceptual weapon, not only against the 99% but against themselves as well. One thing… Continue reading

    The Book of Life

  • Wealth doesn’t trickle down – it just floods offshore

    Often, when I hear folks saying that the rich and super rich are job creators, I ask myself: Exaclty to how much of world economics do you actually pay heed? If profits are not invested into foreign ventures they are… Continue reading

  • Whatever, Etc. 0012: Imaginative Variation-Beginnings

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  • The Corporate Professor

    I highly recommend all of the articles in the current issue of the Hedgehog Review. Here is the first one: Under the Sign of Satan: William Blake in the Corporate University Continue reading

  • Controlling Choice

    The constantly modulating networks of choice that leave us always wanting by catching us already adapting within the limits we are offered. https://karljaspers23.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/society-of-control/ Continue reading

  • 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… Continue reading