epistemological dissonance

Their brains are rewarded
not for staying on task but for jumping
to the next thing. The worry is we're raising
a generation of kids in front of screens whose brains
are going to be wired differently.

-Michael Rich

this is a figure of speech isn't it?
i mean
we're not talking about the actual wiring of brains, are we?

maybe it would have been more accurate to say:
their priorities will be vastly different-
and we are all likely to suffer because of that

what are we doing here

Many of the greatest things man has achieved are not the result of consciously directed thought, and still less the product of a deliberately co-ordinated effort of many individuals, but of a process where the individual plays a part which he can never fully understand.

Friedrich Hayek +1992

horsemen pass by

Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.

- Albert Einstein

well? what? do? you? know?

Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave
as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave.

- Marshall McLuhan +1980

it would seem that chesterton grabbed this guy

one way to do it

"...Sometimes managing to smile requires true heroism; may your smile, whether thoughtful or joyful, always do good.”

- Elisabeth Leseur +1914 (o yeah....here's a saint indeed)

-thanks to the geologian over at an earthling wonders

another horseshit day in paradise

i'm on my second cup of coffee

a lonely theme stated by gordon lightfoot
some 40 years ago

the whole song is a prayer depicting a guy caught in a fierce tug of war between his love for a bottle his love for a momentary lover and the love of his family back home

but i'm in a monastery
not lost
tasks ahead of me
a tour
i get to explain the design minds of great architects
this is a good gig
and i dig it

and tonite i will organize irish tunes for the irish wake of a an irish abbot

trudging plodding looking over my shoulder on occasion
looking all around 360 degrees quite often actually
staring into space at night
you better believe it

still swimming in minnesota
i confess
cross my wretched heart and hope to die
we are still swimming in minnesota
in october

when summer finally ends and i have some time
to reflect on all that has been accomplished
in the endless summer project
i will wax wittily about it
but for now
i must go out to enjoy it

it is autumn
but the fierce force of summer
is still apparent in the dazzling sunlight
lower on the arch of it's trajectory
splashing us in the face

conquistadores por el verano perpetuo
avant ultreya

from a distance

the earth is blue [...]

how wonderful

it is amazing

- yuri gagarin - to ground control 1961