I am trying to watch Ezra Klein’s interview with Gillian Tett. To say that people are confused is an understatement but there also is a very definite intention to deepen confusion. I myself have trouble understanding what consumers and purveyors of confusion think they are doing and for what results. Only very stupid persons canContinue reading “THE STUPIDITY OF SANE-WASHING”
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Making Room
A Poem for Aimee I have heardSome people talkAbout looking atThe books people keepSaying that saysA lot about whetherIt would beWorth spending timeAnd how muchTime would youSpend with that personbased on the books I am something ofA person ofBooksSomething ofA person ofWordsAnd you seem toLike thatComing into myBook worldTouching the spinesReading the titles You openContinue reading “Making Room”
WHAT HAS “IDENTITY” GOT TO DO WITH “US”?
We assume a role not only in the immediate social context but also, coming into it, based on everything in our lives which has come before. From the circumstances of birth down to the “choice” of attire, we bring who we think we are more broadly to each and every social interaction. We bring thisContinue reading “WHAT HAS “IDENTITY” GOT TO DO WITH “US”?”
rekəˈlekSH(ə)n/
I have a problem with my memoryThe opposite of what most folks would say:As I age I recall things differently,And clearly, in a most estranging way. It isn’t merely I have changed, no longerThe shortened version of self-narrativeWe all seem to make invariably younger,And differences increase the longer we live; Specifics for me also growContinue reading “rekəˈlekSH(ə)n/”
Change
I was thinking about something that happened some other time and then the elevator door opened on the floor my future was heading towards. So many routines become just that. We fail to realize what they really mean, whether they are necessary or merely incidental, almost accidents of life or choices made which lead toContinue reading “Change”
Familiar Objects in a New Light
From New York I returned, my balconyNeither as large nor high as that at the hotel;The metal railing dusty though I neverNoticed before; the bolted rectanglesThat fix the railing in its place appearPeculiar in this new light of my return. There I saw new an old friend’s other faceSo sadly different in that different place,IndifferentContinue reading “Familiar Objects in a New Light”
IDENTITY AS CENTRAL TO BEHAVIOR
We Act On Who We Think We Are It first occurred to me in context of sexuality that people’s thinking (particularly ideological and paradigmatic conceptions) is based on identity, not facts or evidence or logic or science or even just belief. This was back in the late 1980s and early 1990s when I was thinkingContinue reading “IDENTITY AS CENTRAL TO BEHAVIOR”
Origins of Economic Alienation and the Threat to Freedom
Timothy Snyder in his latest book On Freedom asserts that freedom must start with being free to do and not with freedom from. He describes the former as positive freedom and the latter as negative freedom. We can identify who’s who by this simple shibboleth. Those who come at us with freedom from regulation, forContinue reading “Origins of Economic Alienation and the Threat to Freedom”
Free Energy Principle and Identity
In Medias Res Part of who we are is the people who have known us and know us, the people we knew and know. The Free Energy Principle, which includes active inferencing, the way we constantly figure out what is going on and how we fit into it, making a literal map in brain, aContinue reading “Free Energy Principle and Identity”
The Silence Is Listening
a prose poem I often ask God, Why aren’t you listening to me? And of course the answer comes back as silence. How else would anyone or anything listen? Silence is in a sense the ultimate listening. Maybe God is the ultimate listener, which is why we humans perceive it as silence. And what wouldContinue reading “The Silence Is Listening”
I Dwell In Possibility 