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Do You Think You’ll Ever Know, Now That You Have Handed Your Mind to the Machine?

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We live in a 24/7 media society of the spectacle where brainwashing is cunning and relentless, and the consuming...

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A Tuneful Irish Tale

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“Accomplished fingers begin to play. Their eyes mid many wrinkles, their eyes, Their ancient, glittering eyes, are gay.” WB...

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Whose Dog Was Being Wagged During Showtime Between Trump and Zelensky?

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Art requires the use of imagination, but so does political and social analysis. But imagination is just a first...

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Modern Times and Ancient Truths

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Eighty-nine years ago this month, the film Modern Times, starring Charlie Chaplin, was released. Considered one of the greatest movies...

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Hold the Applause for Trump, the “Peacemaker”

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There is history worth remembering as Trump is lauded in certain circles on the so-called “right” and “left” as...

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Are the Dead Nostalgic?

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I was asking this question recently when the nightmare of the Israeli genocide of Palestinians greatly disturbed my reflections...

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Martin Luther King, Vietnam, and Gaza

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Before my mind was turned to the subject of my title, I started to write a piece called “Are...

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My Internal Exile

“Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it’s spritely waking, audible,...

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Lucid Summations of Fundamental Issues

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In his 1959 classic book, The Sociological Imagination, the American sociologist C. Wright Mills wrote that ordinary people are often...

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A Bizarre Kind of Executive Action: The Suppression of Epochal Documentaries

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“The old lie: Dulce et decorum est /Pro patria mori (It is a sweet and fitting thing to die...

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Everybody Knows: Do They?

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“Everybody knows the boat is leaking/Everybody knows the captain lied” Leonard Cohen, “Everybody Knows” When the polls closed on...

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Patrick’s Endgame When Words Fall on Deaf Ears

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“I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything anymore, teach me others. Or let me...

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Soul Suicide in the Ballot Box as Palestinians Are Butchered

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It’s been a long time but worth remembering, if you can, that when the Twin Towers and Building 7...

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The Preposterous Nature of “Reality”

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It is not uncommon to be doing something seemingly innocuous when one is flooded with wild thoughts, musings that...

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The Free Soul of a Genius: Kris Kristofferson

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“He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as...

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Another September 11th

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Rolling out of my crib before dawn today (I was in it long before the charlatans Harris and Trump...

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Mirages

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I am sitting on the beach at the National Seashore, a forty-mile long stretch of the Atlantic Ocean seashore...

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Something’s Coming, We Don’t Know What It Is But It Is Going To Be Bad

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“With a click, with a shock Phone’ll jingle, door’ll knock, open the latch Something’s coming, don’t know when but...

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The Ardent Pipe Dreams of American Voters

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To hell with the truth! As the history of the world proves, the truth has no bearing on anything....

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Caged in Oligarchic Contradictions

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A contronym is a word having two definitions that contradict each other.  Two examples are the word bolt, which...

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