Just in case anyone forgot about the other elephant in the room (one of many, actually) while attention turned to Europe’s financial shell game, Occupy Wall Street protests, and (justified) preoccupation with the 1%, here is a comment by Barstiat at Clusterfuck Nation (stolen and quoted ruthlessly) that puts U.S. Federal debt into useful perspective: [...]
Archive for October, 2011
Master Indeed
Posted: October 27, 2011 in Consciousness, Culture, Nomenclature, PhilosophyTags: Book Blogging
I am coming to the end of part one (of two) of The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist. After having described the divided brain, he is now at the stage of explaining in detail why the right brain is the master and the left brain the emissary. Here is one of many restatements [...]
Seven Billion Day
Posted: October 25, 2011 in Economics, Environment, Idle Nonsense, Industrial CollapseIn something that sounds like it ought to be a joke but isn’t, the day when the Earth’s human population is projected to cross above 7 billion (according to the U.S. Census Bureau) is April 1, 2012. What fools we all turn out to be!! Back in the day (the 1960s and 1970s), I recall [...]
Most educated folks know about Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs: As I continue my (glacially slow) progress through The Master and His Emissary by Iain McGilchrist, I was intrigued to read about a different hierarchy — that of value modalities — developed by the German phenomenological philosopher Max Scheler: McGilchrist notes that Scheler anticipates the [...]
I visited The River Trail Nature Center and grounds recently in Glenview, Illinois, which is part of the larger Forest Preserve District of Cook County serving the City of Chicago and its surrounding suburbs. A similar forest preserve district is located in Lake County just to the north. Cook County maintains an impressive network of [...]
Awarded Answers 02
Posted: October 10, 2011 in Advertising, Blogosphere, Education, WritingTags: WebAnswers
In a previous post, I linked to 17 of my awarded answers at WebAnswers.com. Here are an additional 12: What according to you runs the world? link Is Hugh Hefner … just a dirty old man? link If you stumbled upon a magic lamp and a Genie came out … what would be your three [...]
This blog post was originally published on February 3, 2008, at Creative Destruction. This republication is somewhat modified. The movement of middle class whites from city centers to suburbs starting in the 1950s is one of the many effects cars and their infrastructure have wrought on social organization and landscape. Those of us born during [...]
