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Thought For the Day: It Is Perfectly Appropriate To Copy The Nuances, Mannerisms, Styles and Cultural Idioms of Other Cultures
“By now you’ve probably heard that an American teenager wore a traditional Chinese dress to her prom. The young lady, Keziah Daum, is not ethnically Chinese or Asian. And this infuriated a lot of people on Twitter. … Cultural appropriation … Continue reading
21st Century Twilight Zone
https://flic.kr/p/CH47Xk 21st Century Twilight Zone by Michael Romani In these times of post-modern days On might wonder about how morality plays From another century still have relevance A look, however, will evidence the prevalence That such lessons still remain and … Continue reading
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Tagged 21st Century, Civilization, Electric Dreams, Lessons, Morality Plays, Nostalgia, Parables, Photograph, Poem, Poetry, Post Modern, Twilight Zone
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Thought of the Day: Civilized Life Is Based On Illusions In Which We Collaborate
“Civilized life is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is, we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.” … Continue reading
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Tagged Civilization, Collaborate, Customary, Illusions, James G Ballard, Thought For the Day
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – Locksley Hall – Alfred Tennyson
Based on an Arabic work called Mu’allaqat, in 1835, Lord Alfred Tennyson wrote himself a dramatic monologue in a set of 97 rhyming couplets. It is a stream of consciousness work with it’s protagonist caught up in in an interior … Continue reading
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Tagged Civilization, Harvard Classics, Jealousy, Locksley Hall, Mu'allaqat, Poetry, Steam of Conciousness, Tennyson, Utopia
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Thought For the Day: The True Test of Civilization Is Revealed In Character
“The true test of civilization is, not the census, nor the size of cities, nor the crops – no, but the kind of man the country turns out.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson For an interesting take on how the above … Continue reading
Never A Good Thing
After some thought and careful consideration, I’ve decided to edit this post to reflect that it will stand as my response to the challenge to Day 26 of the Poem A Day challenge. I am completely convinced that scientists in … Continue reading
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Tagged Civilization, Conscience, Deniers, Dissenters, Earth Day, Gaia, Hypocrisy, Hypotheses, Industrialization, Oxymoron, Partisan, Performance Art, Science, Secular Religion, Theology, Truth
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