Back to reality. The original unreliable narrator is memory itself. In eyewitness testimony from one witness to another, objects and events appear differently in memory’s mirror. Add video and suddenly everyone who watches, believes he was there or has as good an idea of what happened. Add audio, and Rod Serling emerges from a cloudContinue reading “Star Trek: Reflections on Sci Fi Notions of Time, Part IV Point 5”
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And the Word Is
What ancestor worship, abstract thought, and celebrity have to do literally with the price of beef In the beginning, the word may not have been with God nor was it likely “God,” but at some point words moved out of their parents’ home and took over the human universe. We cannot be sure when itContinue reading “And the Word Is”
A Matter of Identity
It first occurred to me in context of sexuality that people’s thinking, and particularly ideological and paradigmatic conceptions, are 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 thinking about a lot of identity-centered concepts, notContinue reading “A Matter of Identity”
I Dwell In Possibility 