Category: New Ways of Thinking
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What If EVERYTHING Has Consciousness?
It’s Sunday. The ‘News Channels’ are pulling their puds and revisiting old ground (the thing they do best) in lieu of digging deeper into the Most Important Story of Anyone’s Lifetime. Their collective lack of insightful analytical skills is beyond depressing. Ironically, it got me thinking about an article I caught a few months ago…
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Will Our Age Ultimately Be Known As ‘THE BRANDED AGE’?
Americans are not generally known for their knowledge of history (or geography). We have other strengths. But, when we DO have history (and remember it), we tend to be ‘colorful’ about it. There’s a ‘pretty famous’ (if by ‘famous’ we mean Historians call it that) time period in American History called The Gilded Age. It…
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Drinking Culture Vs Cannabis Culture: We’ve Got It COMPLETELY Upside Down…
Long story short: A few days before Christmas 2016, I not only ‘flirted with suicide’, I stared long and hard into its eyes. I was lucky — and walked away alive. The medication that helped me walk away alive – Lamotrigine – is mainly used as an anti-seizure med for epilepsy sufferers; anecdotal observations suggested…
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When Imagination Fails – WE Fail
How does one explain the consistent inability of American News Media (and news media from all over the world) to grasp and report the Trump-Russia Story? Even now when the average panel starts to pick apart what Donald & Vlad are doing together, the Media STILL want to pretend that everything happening is absolutely normal…
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What Tribalism IS & ISN’T
Our illustrious, observant MSM points out a lot these days how TRIBAL we’ve all become (and how ‘it’s both sides’ fault that we HAVE become so tribal). As I’m fond of saying on these pages here, if you start from a place of BULLSHIT, you will only ever see BULLSHIT in front of you. And…
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Can We Be Really, REALLY Honest With Each Other? If You Believe In Bullshit — WHY Should ANYONE BELIEVE YOU?
I’ll try and make this easy. If you boarded an airplane and the pilot announced (before the doors had closed) that not only was this his very first flight as a professional pilot — and (cause that’s not enough), he doesn’t believe in science, he believes in Magic — and just to prove that HIS…
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Dear American News Media: Telling A Story Is Like ‘CLIMBING’ A Mountain – Not Just ‘LOOKING’ At One…
Mountains impress. They wow you with their existence, their enormity, their majesty, their size. On the one hand you want to revere it like a sentient creature, on the other, you want to climb it — not so much to master it as just to look it directly in the eye. You want the mountain…
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How About If, Today, We Declare Independence From BULLSHIT!
It seems a natural thing to want to be INDEPENDENT from — BULLSHIT. Yet, look around you and ‘witness’ all those who are SLAVES to BULLSHIT — especially their own. Turns out we all carry around our own bullshit like it was a box of LPs from College that we know we should get rid…
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The Republican Dream: TWO AMERICAS
Clarity. Ya have to give the Republican Party full bonus points for having ‘Clarity’. They know EXACTLY the ‘kind of America’ they want our country to be. Too bad it’s 1850 America. The republican party aspires to live in a White, Christian, Male Dominated World. Demographics do not line up with that world any more. They…
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What This Country MEANS To Me (America IS Exceptional — When Republicans GET OUT OF OUR WAY…)
I have a mixed marriage. I am American and my wife is British (now also American). My children are mixed – British & American Nationals. I have contemplated becoming like them – a Bi-National. And yet — I have always had reservations about doing such a thing — because, on some level, I feel like…