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Oct.30.2011
Deracination is a great word: it means to pull something up by the roots, to sever or isolate someone (or something) from its native culture. All week, I have been chewing on an example I encountered at last week’s arts conference, and still, I just can’t swallow it.
The meeting was convened by...
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Jul.07.2011
I was recently interviewed for the Australian radio news show, Future Tense (listen here, about halfway in). The topic was soap opera as a force for social change. I had hoped the show would have room for my longstanding concerns about the ramifications when fans point to the importance attached to...
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Jan.17.2011
Perhaps it's no great surprise that Glenn Beck would distort Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s message, as he did when he held a rally for mostly white reactionaries on the 47th anniversary of King's "I Have a Dream" speech in August, all the while suggesting that the group was "...
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Mar.11.2010
Just about every spiritual tradition preaches it; just about every psychological tradition teaches it. So why is it so hard to learn to separate one's desire from expectations of its fulfillment? Why is it so tempting to give up wanting what doesn't seem to be forthcoming?
One of my strongest...
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Jan.29.2009
The Archdruid goes looking for the missing pieces of the puzzle of social change in the latest post from The Archdruid Report.
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Jan.09.2009
Dying to read about their lives by Mark Juddery
WHEN was the best time to die, if you really wanted to be honoured at your passing? Perhaps it was the 1990s, when the Time & Tide section took up a page of The Australian five days a week. Obscure album cover designers, Disney cartoonists and the...
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Dec.24.2008
In the wake of Jessica Barksdale Inclan's post today, reflecting on changing social patterns, I am encouraged to post this passage - replete with Sixties angst - from my Marion Grace novel The Godmother (fully written but awaiting a suitable window for revision and editing!)
So when...
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