We created a government based on liberty and freedom. The world loved it for a long time. We created a system of capitalism that generated phenomenal wealth. The world loved it for a long time. Now the vote is in. The world doesn’t love it as much anymore. Our politics are ineffective. Our economy is [...]
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April 25, 2010
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Financial Crisisitis in Our House
By Lee in ArchivesSorry for the delay in posting but I’ve been face down in grant writing for another project blah blah blah…moving on: Thinking in terms of culture is infectious. Pretty soon you start to see our nation’s problems differently. For example: the financial crisis and current attempts to use the S.E.C. accusation of Goldman to push [...]
Tags: culture, economics, philosophy, Politics
February 27, 2010
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We’re wasting time debating issues while our stories are at war.
By Lee in Archivesclassical Greek red figure vase vs. Adam and Eve by Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1531 Isn’t the mythic healthcare debate just painful? Can it please be the last straw? Our civilization has ground to a halt. Why? Because we argue issues, or worse, facts, when those are not what divide us. What divides us is [...]
February 9, 2010
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Can ideas be too big to fail?
By Lee in ArchivesYou can tell a lot about a civilization by the imagery it puts the most money behind. Most we’ve admired spent big on making their favorite philosophy visible everywhere and beautiful to everyone. They wanted to weave their wisdom into the fabric of their cultures. For better or worse, those cultures became the ideas they [...]
Tags: art, culture, philosophy, values, wisdom
February 4, 2010
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I don’t know—I just know
By Lee in ArchivesWe need to stop being weird about intuition. We’re going to need it to solve our problems and to do great stuff that makes life exciting and fun. There are some ideas, embedded in our culture that screw up our understanding of intuition. I’m sure I’m going to bring the subject up more than just [...]
February 1, 2010
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poll: which would be worse
By Lee in ArchivesSo we were sitting around Sunday morning and got to thinking (not always a good thing) about the way Americans can seem fairly righteous on the one hand, but on the other, admire a skilled criminal. I have no idea how we got onto that subject, but the result is this poll: [polldaddy poll=2628993]
January 25, 2010
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Car Rant—re: Supreme Court. Is what we’re mad about, changing?
By Lee in ArchivesWith all the “take our country back” and “tea party” sentiment out there, I wonder if the recent Court decision will shift peoples’ ideas of who exactly is “us” and who is “them.” This post springs from my sense that while the right vs. left war rages on, there are other, deeper-seated notions pundits are [...]
January 22, 2010
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Don’t Worry. (Or, how I video blog safely in my car.)
By Lee in ArchivesI’m not going to fool myself into thinking that lots of people won’t think I’m endangering lives anyway, but I feel pretty good about this solution. Hey, who doesn’t rant in their car anyway? I’m just capturing it–hands free, I promise!
Tags: car rants, videoBlogTricks