Read Part 1 of this post. The Obsolete Man – Part 2 In part 1 of this post, looking at The Twilight Zone episode, The Obsolete Man, concepts of statism and statolatry were discussed. During the first ten minutes of the episode (part 1), librarian Romney Wordsworth was tried and convicted of being obsolete. In [...]
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Almost 60 years ago, on a popular TV show, The Twilight Zone, Rod Serling presented a dystopian tale entitled “The Obsolete Man.” The broadcast in 1961 occurred in the middle of the Cold War – two plus months after the failed Bay of Pigs attempted invasion of Cuba, two plus months before the border between [...]
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What’s the biggest social problem facing the western culture? Is it poverty and class warfare? Is it overpopulation? Is it economic inequality? Maybe it’s secularization or religion. Perhaps it’s militancy. Not sure what the biggest problem is, but a very big problem has to do with the “polarization of ideas.” It appears one of the [...]
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I was standing outside of a classroom where I used to be an educator of sorts waiting to help a teacher administer an important beginning-of-the-year reading test. A teacher across the hall looking rather pale said to me that something terrible was happening. She lead me to her computer. There was a one line news [...]
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Violating Own Rule: Will be unabashedly using I in this post. Some say it’s just making connections — stimulus-response. Some say the data is already there and we discover it. Some say we construct complex knowledge structures — schemata. Some say our brain creates reality. Blurring the Distinction Between Fiction and Non-Fiction My wife and [...]
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