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Mar.04.2013 Town Hall Meetings: Rockwell vs. Orwell Chis Bohjalian's recent blog on town and school boards reminded me how far we have "evolved" politically since our colonial times. My experience at public meetings in both rural and urban jurisdictions (Minnesota) is not exactly the "pure...	Sep.02.2012 Kafka, (bureaucracy), and Revolution, Part Two “The world is going to Hell.” We’ve been hearing that for so long, it may seem surprising that we haven’t got there yet, but plenty of people have been there and some would say they still are. For many folks trying to exist behind the Iron Curtain, everyday life was a kind of Hell. That...
Nov.26.2011 Anti-Orwellian Developments Have you noticed how many stores and public places now have video cameras? They record everything going on around them. Sounds a bit like Orwell's 1984, doesn't it? Except--how many times have you seen a film clip of a crime in progress on the TV news? Using the cameras to identify...	Jan.19.2010 Money is 1984 1.Shelf no meaninglessness.Shelf no meaning.Shelf no nirvana or nonduality.If you got "it" now, share "it" now.That’s the Law of Now!2.Let the store-keeper save what feels good today and makes sense today untill tomorrow to make money.Strategy (the Long-Think) wasn’t invented to...
Apr.08.2009 Quote from Orwell with poem of Wm. Blake It is not at all certain that a merely moral criticism of society may not be just as "revolutionary" - and revolution, after all, means turning things upside down - as the politico-economic criticism which is fashionable at this moment. Blake was not a politician, but there is more...	Nov.28.2008 Back to reality. I was all set to write a pleasant post about Thanksgiving and other seasonal traditions when information about the terrorist attack in Mumbai hit the news, and I quickly decided it wasn't the best time for nostalgic walks down memory lane. For the last few days I've been wrestling with how to...
Aug.02.2008 Orwell Blogs! Even though it’s 2008, we might as well be living in 1984 - the novel, not the year. What better way to acknowledge that fact than to honor the author who brought us such a prescient novel. The “beeb” (BBC) has posted recordings of Eric Blair’s adopted son, Richard, reading from his father’s...