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Pseudo-Authenticity

  • Pseudo-Modernism

    An interesting entry from Alan Kirby at the British magazine Philosophy Now. Very well worth the read, and I hope it will spawn a few thoughts from me on the Society of Control. Let’s see what happens. …Postmodernism conceived of contemporary… Continue reading

    Pseudo-Modernism

  • It’s the actor in the interaction not the internet in the actor

    Nice experiment by a gent who left the internet behind for twelve months after being connected in some fashion for thirteen years. I am reminded of how often in a town like Denton or even New York, someone will begin… Continue reading

    It’s the actor in the interaction not the internet in the actor

  • How does Vandana Shiva do it?

    Reading Freire‘s Pedagogy of the Oppressed and other works that are transforming my anarchocynicism, my thoughts keep returning to Vandana Shiva. “[How do I do it?] Well, it’s always a mystery, because you don’t know why you get depleted or recharged.… Continue reading

    How does Vandana Shiva do it?

  • Walking Meditation 20130309

    “Everybody knows how useful it is to be useful; nobody knows how useful it is to be useless.” –Zhuangzi Contemplating how seeking after the future makes all things but mere tools on the way to success in a later-on nowhere… Continue reading

    Walking Meditation 20130309

  • The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocaplypse

    A small foray into the political after a few weeks of mostly concentrating on spirituality. But not too far in as my concern is prompted by my contemplation. I want to thank my good brother Lance W. for pointing out… Continue reading

    The Three Horsemen of the MOOCpocaplypse

  • Honest Acknowledgment

    The habit of employing self-deception to maintain one’s self esteem has often become so ingrained that the first step to developing accurate self-awareness is honest acknowledgment of the existence of hidden emotions, motives and tendencies in the mind without immediately… Continue reading

    Honest Acknowledgment

  • Thinking without Professional Recognition

    I work in and around higher education in the United States, but I am not a professor. I sometimes say that I am in the academy but not necessarily of the academy. This does not imply, however, that I refuse… Continue reading

    Thinking without Professional Recognition

  • Already Falling in Love

    The deluded among us who confound power with political position and happiness with wealth propagate a great confidence game, a colossal con, a great grift. They believe and would have all else believe that the great succession of their material… Continue reading

  • The Leisure to be Your Own Self

    “You find peace  not by rearranging the circumstances of your life,  but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.”  ― Eckhart Tolle Aware. Awakened. Enlightened. Mindful. Many ways of describing a person who is tuned-in with the Encompassing. Each… Continue reading

    The Leisure to be Your Own Self

  • Squeezing

    “The tighter you squeeze, the less you have.” Mazu Daoyi Source: facebook.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Related articles Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the World (keithwaynebrown.com) ‘Squeezed middle’ struggle to save – Confused.com (confused.com) Arts already being… Continue reading

  • Knowledgable Compassion

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Compassion’s beauty arises in the moment you give a crying child a hug or sit down for a candid conversation with a friend about their recent struggles.  Compassion proves our humanity, showing our… Keith… Continue reading

  • 1/23/13 – 7th period, Honors Calculus

    I am a high school student and have recently started to record my experiences in class as  my school day progresses. I cry out silently, listening to my deepest thoughts and emotions echo off of the tender, stone walls of… Continue reading

  • The Socratic Sign

    There comes a time when you notice that a good swathe of your contemporaries are only worth engaging in order to sharpen your rhetorical weapons. To improve your mindful practice, you must turn to those much younger who recover within… Continue reading

  • 3quarksdaily: Active Imagination

    In many ways, Jung has aged worse than Papa Freud. His world now seems quaint and naïve in its lack of suspicion and irony, in its insistence on treating symbols as universal, in its belief that all peoples are telling… Continue reading

  • Stoic Pragmatism // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame

    Most of us have heard about that exemplary fool, Molière’s Monsieur Jourdain, who was astonished to discover in middle age that he had been speaking prose all his life. After perusing John Lachs’s wise and lively Stoic Pragmatism, many readers will… Continue reading

  • How to Live Without Irony – NYTimes.com

    Thanks to Andrew J. Taggart for pointing out this entry to the Stone blog at NYTimes.com. A good read. Not sure I agree with the whole premise. In my view, while Millenials do  present a lot of irony (at least… Continue reading