“In such a world of conflict, a world of victims and executioners, it is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.”- Camus
This is the equivalent to standing on a treeless plain and shouting Stop! to a storm that fills all of the horizon and is coming my way. Once more the tech edge lords have given us a tool that will make our lives easier and render us more half-witted than we have already become. I’m seeing more articles from literate individuals who someone taught how to write proclaiming the liberation […]
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My movie list has evolved as I have aged. The ones I’ve left behind from 12 years ago have not shifted from my esteem. It’s just that others have been added that are more contemporary, and I’ve promised myself to keep to 40 so that I must make choices. This is a partial description of my tastes: I cannot bear Marvel movies or their ilk. They are boredom squared for […]
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Reader’s Note: It will be helpful for you to have access to the complete poems I’ve discussed in this Post: #359 “ A Bird came down the Walk ” #314 “ Hope is the thing with feathers ” #764 “ My life had stood – a Loaded Gun ” #466 “ I Dwell In Possibility ” #905 Split the Lark – and you’ll find the Music” #372, “ After great pain, a formal feeling comes ” Emily Dickinson lived all but a few weeks of her adult life in one house. She spent years as a caretaker for her bedridden mother. She suffered from debilitating migraines, difficulties with her eyes, probably […]
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Doubt helps keep us fully human as opposed to fanatics who sacrifice some fundamental part of their humanity when they adopt a worldview that is one of an ironclad belief in a system, or a person. Doubt necessitates questions. It separates the individual from what he or she is questioning so that the object of devotion may be examined with a critical eye and mind. Fanaticism breeds obedience and a […]
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