Category: Commentary
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Guild Psychology and the Secular Priesthood
Since the beginning of human history for the plurality of people, direction, purpose, meaning was given through faith and belief. Religion provided a scaffold that provided coherence to thought and action. A purpose “beyond oneself” provided a secure framework and compass for choice and action. The absence of guiding principles, a faith to live by,…
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Adrift in a Sea of Change
We do not chose our sex, race, genetics, temperament, culture of origin, parents, birth history, and time and place of birth. We may influence our interpersonal environment after birth, but only that which is closely bounded in space and time and already constrained by culture, collective and personal history. We grow by degrees to awareness…
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Time’s How You Look at It
When I lived in New Hope, Pennsylvania, I had a next door neighbor who preferred to remain anonymous. Lindsey claimed her husband had been murdered by a conspiracy of unscrupulous investors who aimed to restrict a patented technology her husband had developed. He had produced a device that enabled rapid aging of organic and inorganic…
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College Reunion Blues
My dear ever-loving Alma Mater, the University of Redacted, sent me at least three notices that the Class of ‘XX would celebrate the XXth anniversary of their graduation. I doubt if the language of celebration exactly resonated with my feelings. I wondered if the class of ‘XX were ambulatory. I envisioned platoons of corpulent, gray/…