“It is preposterous to infer that something is unknowable simply because it is not known”. Patricia S. Churchland – Touching a Nerve – The Self as Brain.
“It is preposterous to infer that something is unknowable simply because it is not known”. Patricia S. Churchland – Touching a Nerve – The Self as Brain. Offering a theory for a phenomenon is very much different from defining that event and calling it fact. Humans have been “guessing” about reason and cause their entire […]
Paul Bowles’ Travel Essays – The Loss of Cultures
I am transported by Paul Bowles’ writing. His evocations of desert life, North African culture, and impending imperialization are excellent examples of the west’s need to “improve” other cultures by enforcing their own sense of propriety and rules. From 1931 to 1963, Paul Bowles details the changes wrought by aggressive cultures on Marrekech, Tangier, and […]
Paris to the Past – Ina Caro
What a wonderful writer and what a great approach to traveling a country I love. Ina Caro has written not just a directory of the best sites in France, but an architectural, historical, and social milieu portrait of seven hundred years of wars, family conflict, and socio-economic changes. Her style is gossipy but well-informd and […]
An Absence of Generative Dialogue
An Absence of Generative Dialogue Overspending emotional and finanical resources on who or what caused a problem results in a sometimes premeditated reduction of oppositions’ energy and resources to ultimately solve the problem. Too much time is spent defending a position when most know it has failed. A lack of harmony can be crucial to […]
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