The Art & Practice of Living well.
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Quote:
"The other Thing you've got to Remember Michael, - any fool can be Uncomfortable.
The Thing to do is to make yourself Comfortable. Now, you can make yourself comfortable almost anywhere. "
Alan Whicker to Michael Palin Prior to Departing on his Around the World in 80 Days _____________________
Quote:
"The other Thing you've got to Remember Michael, - any fool can be Uncomfortable.
The Thing to do is to make yourself Comfortable. Now, you can make yourself comfortable almost anywhere. "
BBc travel documentary"
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Defining the Cutting Edge
Bucking Trend, Fashion, Flared trousers, platform shoes ... & meaningless drivers of change-
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The Death of the Cyberflaneur
Evgeny Morozv (net delusion , the dark side of Internet Freedom)
Abstract: Celebrating the rise of the cyberFlaneur- painting a bright digital future brimming w/ Playfulness, intrigue, serendipity-that awaited this mysterious on-line type.
The History of Flanerie- emblem of modernity, -most associated with Paris -"cultivating the gastronomy of the eye"
"If today's Internet has a Baron Haussmann, it is Facebook. Everything that makes cyberflanerie possible-
solitude and individuality, anonymity and opacity, mystery and ambivalence, curiosity and risk-taking- is under assault by Facebook. And its not just any company: with 825 million users world-wide, where Facebook goes
arguably so goes the Internet."
NYt Feb 5, 2012-
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Essays 2010 & 2011.
Simplicity & Refusal. A path to Sanity, Sustainability, & The “SuperMan”.
Essay.
“One Bird One Stone” & a Return to Excellence.
Essay.
Multi-Tasking . Attention Deficit Disorder -as Doctrine & Status Symbol
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Shed.
The Possibilities of Purity & Harmony in the cacophony of Chaos
Small is Beautiful:
The Sustainable Smart Design Initiative:
Kiss it. The Art & Necessity of Efficiency, Organization, & A Purposeful -Simplicity.
The Ethics of -Simple.
The Seduction of Complexity: Necessity, Reality, and the allure of the Dark Side.
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The Devil In praxis. Complexity , Chaos , Confusion.... & Stuff
Complexity and its Cousins- As The Enemy of Productivity, Thinking, Harmony , Freedom. & Being.
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The Seduction of Complexity: Necessity, Reality, and the allure of the Dark Side.
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In Favor of Dirty Jokes & Risque Remarks
Nyt 2011. Katie Roiphe- Prof of Journalism -NYU
Response
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A Case for Style & performance.
Ducatti Spring Overture. & a Prelude in Triumph
Essay:
Lessons from ..Life.Throwing Snow Balls at Moving Vehicles.
Childhood Development and its dependence on an immersion in -Life.
Abstract:
Engineering & Mechanics , Social dynamics, Physical Challenges, Emotional development , - rational decision making in crisis management,
are but some of the lessons taught to Children when Throwing Snowballs at Cars.
Life’s Experiences, that is -springing from Life’s Challenges-problems-complex dynamics, ... the messiness of LIfe in all its carnations, comprise the organic ingredients for the Development of the Human. Encountering this -mess- and successfully overcome it - or Not, is in fact as aspect of a Child’s developmental process that simply cannot be overstated ...or easily quantified.
The messy “soup” of life contains infinite moments of challenge & Learning
Life's -Lessons- are the essential , if not elemental learning- growing- Ego /confidence developing , Problem solving , Developmental Environment of -Humans. Removing these things from a Childs experience is -disastrous for the very simple reason-
These lessons Cannot be created or replicated artificially . If we remove Life lessons in a Child’s Development, they are lost to time, often emerging as dysfunction, or
unfulfilled promise , perpetual immaturity, distorted development , an absence of development, latent conflict, ...et al.
Essay.
A $625 CookBook and the False Promise of a Late Modern Hamburger.
On Nathan Myhrvold’s Tale of Beakers and Bunsen Burners in the Kitchen
& Tale of a Mistaken instinct and the limits of ink on paper.
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The Invisible Gentleman
Razors Edge. Conforming to Silly cultural trends - vs an Ossification into Oblivion.
The Steadfast Classicist on Change & Adaptation
In Quest of Clarity. The “Classical” Standard as both Vice and Virtue.
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A page from The Doc.
The problem of the Solution. Critical thinking, problem solving, & -making it worse.
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Inspiration
N. Kristoff: NyTimes - how to recharge your soul. 2010 **
Commentary
Essay:
Doubt as Redemption.
“From Darkness Lies the possibility of our Awakening”- Anthony Hopkins.
A Conversation Between Charlie Rose & Anthony Hopkins- On Dietrich BonHoffer, Paul Tillich, and Spinoza’s God
Commentary.
Essay:
Reflections on Mountaineering, ReinHold Messner, & Philosophy.
Understanding Character as -foundational to the intellect. One’s ability to approach the world and untangle its mysteries, that is, one’s capacity for Philosophy - depends on it.
Character is in an Intimate dance with the mind. One’s ability to See- to Understand, our Capacity to access -knowledge , the mystery of -Truth, is dependent upon a commingling of these discrete aspects of Self.
Neither enables or Defines the other. Neither is a guarantor of the other.
Certainly One is Not an exact correlate of the other. Rather, a dance, separate yet woven together to form a singularity. In Mountaineering, Strength , endurance, Discipline, Courage, are .....
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The Beginning of Philosophy
“The Hero’s Journey” and its Relation to the Philosophic & Civic.
Character as a Foundational - predictive- aspect of ones faculty and attachment to
Critical thinking.
The Virtues understood as - Soil of the mind.
Learned Aversion to the Trap of Hubris , Arrogance and Self Indulgence.
Courage. Fortitude. Discipline, Humility. Determination. Self Awareness. - Curiosity.
Courage -to let go of- conditioned understanding, Models, Habits, & belief systems.
Courage to say - “I do not Know” .
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On loosing our Collective Minds:
