The Machine and the Rage
This sounds idiotic, but I was really hoping to leave the Middle East without new friends, and without a desire to learn more about yet another region/culture/language. ‘Make new friends, and keep the old’ sounds great, but it has its limits and I reached...The Missing Key
I wrote this a few weeks ago while riding the subway from Madrid’s airport to Paseo de Prado. Apparently someone was listening and developed the helpful Web 2.0 Suicide Machine. “Meet your Real Neighbors again!” is a great tagline, destined to become...Inventing Identity
When we speak about our identity I believe that we are referring to four different things: 1.) how we see ourselves as we relate to society around us, 2.) how we want others to see us, 3.) how others see us as we relate to society, and 4.) how we perceive...
The End of Anonymity?
Internet use becomes pathological when it is dissociated from in-person life. It becomes healthy when it is integrated with in-person living. John Suler in The Psychology of Cyberspace When I first started this blog in December of ’03, I didn’t want to use...
Roots and Poetry
Question: Why is ancestral country and culture so important to some Americans and not others? And why do some ethnicities identify with the home country and culture of their parents or grandparents or great-grandparents more than others? It seems to me that...
Pitching Outside the Strike Zone, Part Vg
September 23, 2003 Cienfuegos, Cuba This morning, after breakfast as I was on my way out, the husband of the Casa called me over to introduce me to some friends, a couple, the husband of whom is a philosophy professor. We promised to talk later tonight and so on the...Latest Photos
