Hartsfield-Jackson
Atlanta International Airport, mid-Concourse E
live piano music...
one pianist there happily plays requests...
passengers sitting eating, waiting or walking by...hearing songs or snatches of songs they knew, know or would...
the melodies, moods, evoked memories... flying within them all around the world
Monday, September 2, 2013
Sunday, September 1, 2013
brawn over brain in American stadia
it is now accepted by the NFL (National Football League) that scientists in the USA have proven what should have been obvious during the decades of the sport:
the modern-spectacle gladiators in America's football stadia are often seriously and permanently injured by "brain concussions" when they smash into each other.
such a sport requires regards a popular, dull brain over brawn to do and enjoy watching anyway, and this also has lead to this slow recognition of the obvious by gladiators and spectators, and recently in a settlement with the current organizers of the spectacles, the NFL.
and as prosaic, painful and mundane as this all seems, it is all of very deeply telling, interrelated facts of the relation of mankind (in this example, in America) to his body and mind, outer and inner life, outer and inner activities, including the belated recognition of the inner physical brain damage, which is the meeting place of brain and brawn, whether there be brain over brawn, or brawn over brain...
the questions and facts here go back at least to Plato.
the modern-spectacle gladiators in America's football stadia are often seriously and permanently injured by "brain concussions" when they smash into each other.
such a sport requires regards a popular, dull brain over brawn to do and enjoy watching anyway, and this also has lead to this slow recognition of the obvious by gladiators and spectators, and recently in a settlement with the current organizers of the spectacles, the NFL.
and as prosaic, painful and mundane as this all seems, it is all of very deeply telling, interrelated facts of the relation of mankind (in this example, in America) to his body and mind, outer and inner life, outer and inner activities, including the belated recognition of the inner physical brain damage, which is the meeting place of brain and brawn, whether there be brain over brawn, or brawn over brain...
the questions and facts here go back at least to Plato.
Saturday, August 24, 2013
soap opera(d) news
"news" in the USA is now en masse reduced to the "soap operas" that are a realistic reflection of its social mentality en masse.
escaping "philosophy"
escaping "philosophy" as it is constituted and taught, by reading through it till beyond it, is perhaps the only hope of finding some wisdom and insight. otherwise one remains trapped in interconnected intellectual mazes -- with virtually no exits, (mis)named eg Kant, Leibnitz, Descartes
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
the America religion
"America" as an historical, earthly surrogate, shared religion, with much passionate belief
why or how?
in college days most studied -- rather most often not -- how to learn to make a living.
i studied why.
i studied why.
Thursday, August 8, 2013
enlightening lightning
a history of the understanding of lightning is needed, including the influence of lightning in and on history, from eg Moses in the clouds on the mountain in Sinai, through Luther's pledging to St Anne to become a monk, to the purely physical view of lightning.
Wednesday, August 7, 2013
indeferential treatment
when finishing the concluding chapter of Candide in Carpe Diem...
a young man of the cloth, perhaps from the nearby Jesuit college or Episcopal school, enters, sits, and keys on his iphone as capably as any teen.
he receives no -- by this time few if any would even imagine to be such -- public deference.
black shirt, white collar -- otherwise he is externally and internally indistinquishable..
and who nowadays might expect him to have had any veridical metanoia as of Moses, Paul, Luther, Pascal?
to each his own career.
a young man of the cloth, perhaps from the nearby Jesuit college or Episcopal school, enters, sits, and keys on his iphone as capably as any teen.
he receives no -- by this time few if any would even imagine to be such -- public deference.
black shirt, white collar -- otherwise he is externally and internally indistinquishable..
and who nowadays might expect him to have had any veridical metanoia as of Moses, Paul, Luther, Pascal?
to each his own career.
thoughts in/on the USA: for nicemen* only
self-selling vs self-knowledge
insipidization via US television
a radical, unreflective this-worldliness
America is for Steppenwolf's "everyone": "For everyone only". "for sanemen only".
television advertising as nationally broadcast psychic abuse
all mediocres are created equal
mediocrities vs superocrities
(*nice, from nescience)
insipidization via US television
a radical, unreflective this-worldliness
America is for Steppenwolf's "everyone": "For everyone only". "for sanemen only".
television advertising as nationally broadcast psychic abuse
all mediocres are created equal
mediocrities vs superocrities
(*nice, from nescience)
"For everyone only"
"Harry Haller", Hesse's biographical Steppenwolf character, a solitary creature living in a society for everyone.
American society and mentality is for everyone.
American society and mentality is for everyone.
american tv
no intelligent person could be other than offended and dismayed at even 10 minutes of US television programs. "news" included.