Cyclops Donald Trump – Amor Fati
The last section of the last Chapter 13 Towards an ethical epistemology in Robert Romanyshy’s compelling book Wounded Researcher: Re-search with soul in mind (WR) is titled Amor Fati and is a one page...
View ArticleWhy Donald Trump won and what is real
Slowly we are trying to get back to a new normal – here is my attempt. I have put together a few video clips that I have been working with this year. They begin with Mandelbrot’s fractals the the...
View ArticleThe Trump Borg
The 2016 US Presidential Election is history and Donald J. Trump won! Many in the World did not “see” this coming and are now working through their shock. Aclassmate told us to take a breath, well it...
View ArticleHyper Normalisation Trump’s Tent
I have been watching Adam Curtis’s BBC documentaries for years and his latest one, Hyper Normalisation, re-cycles his past work with new lens extending it into the present. In this documentary Curtis...
View ArticleA Modest Trump Proposal
Image from MN Jung Association Like a majority of Americans, I was expecting Donald Trump not to be elected President and was anticipating moving on to other blogging topics. However, like the SNL...
View ArticleTrump’s Ode to Joy
I am now listening to Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, as Michael Lewis describes listening to his favorite music when he writes – this habit activates both sides of the brain. Heaven knows, I need all the help...
View ArticleTrump Watching Over All With Loving Grace
All watched over by machines of loving grace is a three part Adam Curtis series that examines the idea of rationality and how it has and still is affecting civilization. Curtis’s approach, as always,...
View ArticleTrump Death Before Dishonor
HPR Image Fargo’s High Plains Read weekly took two weeks off over the holidays and when I picked up a free copy of the last issue for 2016, I spent over an hour reading and sinking into its art work....
View ArticleBlack Swan Trump
A previous DAMBlog Trump Ode to Joy, examined how Beethoven’s Ode to Joy has been used by central-control, authoritarian, leaders to represent their regimes – the suggestion is that we watch to see if...
View ArticleBlack Swan Trump Freezing to Death
When working on the Black Swan Trump blog entry, I had an interesting experience and wrote: “I want to relate an “experience” I had with a real black swan bird on December 28, 2016 as I drove to...
View ArticleThe Black Swan One Dimensional Project – January 20, 2017
I recently went to my bookcase looking for Mortimer Adler and Charles Van Doren’s book How to Read a Book and started to re-read Chapter 20 The forth level of reading: Syntopical reading – how to read...
View ArticleThe I Ching on Trump’s Election – Gathering Together
Watts on The I Ching At major events in life, I have consulted the I Ching for understanding and guidance. When we woke at The Friendship Hotel in Beijing, where we were living on the morning of June...
View ArticleThe I Ching on Trump’s Election – Wooing
On January 20, 2017 shortly after Trump was sworn in as the 45th U.S. President, I put my copy of the I Ching on the table, my three Chinese coins on top of the book, folded my hands around the coins...
View ArticleRed, Blue, or Third Pill?
The family left for an 8-month stay at our family home in Taiwan in the Spring of 2005. Being home-alone, it seems the next day, I rented The Matrix movies, popped a big batch of popcorn, and watched...
View ArticleSolaris
This morning we are being asked this question: What’s Missing From This Photo of Politicians Deciding the Future of Women’s Health? This Mother Jones post says, “Donald Trump met with the...
View ArticleWhy So Serious?
I had this early morning dream: I was able to take from my computer screen the program that was running a Looney Tune program and then use the program with others to act-out any Looney Tune cartoon. It...
View ArticleIndividuation of Ethics – Justice
Dream: I am watching myself from 1st base on the mound pitching a baseball game. I have lost previous games but now have discovered within myself a source of energy, a way that now gives me confidence...
View ArticleA New Universal Spirituality in Fargo’s Civic Center Courtyard
A New Universal Spirituality in Fargo’s Civic Center Courtyard One year ago, 2003, during Fargo’s Ten Commandments Monument debate, a local professor supported his argument for...
View ArticleSly like a fox
I have read Ed’s Gadfly column, Crazy like a fox, several times – each time adding to multi-colored-maker underlinings and penciled notes. There is something “not quite right” with Ed’s essay, of...
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