Category Archives: anthropology
iCloud demo
At the Eaton Centre last Wednesday before lunchtime… it was a rainy day and all the stores were pretty empty, until I walked past this iCloud demo. Afterward I realized that watches, jewellery, food, drink and clothes don’t turn people on half as much as the latest high-tech trinkets. That’s where the action is. And I guess that’s just part of human evolution…
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fisheye
fisheye, originally uploaded by earthpages.
Sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace – Bob Dylan
You know, as a practising Christian I try hard not to judge others.
But there’s always the reality of people who are not sane and really quite bent on evil.
If you think I’m being xtreme, just take a look at this document. It’s a letter of agreement signed by Adolf Hitler and the British PM Neville Chamberlain.
And we know what Hitler did shortly after.
As Bob Dylan put it:
Sometimes Satan comes as a man of peace.
Note: Handwritten portions have been moved toward center to fit into this blogspace.
How to tell a great leader from an evil genius…
I was browsing through A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis and came across an interesting passage that got me thinking…
Jung’s main theoretical contribution to group psychology lies in his claim that it is the influence of insufficiently integrated archetypal tendencies that leads to mass phenomena such as fascism.
And that really is the bottom line.
A great leader weighs all the options and acts with his or her mind connected to the heart. But a tyrant doesn’t give a damn because he or she’s in the grip of some strange power beyond themselves, a power that Jung called an ‘archetypal influence.’
In short, the one is in control, whereas the other is controlled and wants to pass that lack of personal autonomy onto others… sort of like a disease.
Speaking of diseases, I wrote a poem called “The Disease” a long time ago, several years before 9/11. It was this kind of thing that I was alluding to.
Funny quote of the day (from a review of Sex and the City)
Likewise, Greek mythology begins with one question and one question only: Who has more fun in bed, men or women?”
Read the whole story at Radar Online.
just slightly ahead of my time…
just slightly ahead of my time…, originally uploaded by earthpages.
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Cylon’s despair
Cylon’s despair, originally uploaded by earthpages.
Sci-fi fans are all hip to the idea of human beings wondering if they’re cylons… but what about the other side..?
Original Creative Commons photo “Liverpool Street station crowd blur” by David Sim » www.flickr.com/photos/victoriapeckham/164175205/
einstein’s missing variable
einstein’s missing variable, originally uploaded by the last man on earth.
love is the answer… assuming, of course, you’re dealing with sane individuals…
