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A citizenship for the Internet age?
I’ve been reading Jeff Jarvis’ “What Would Google Do?” on the open and closed opportunities offered by the Internet. For anyone who’s been watching the spread of search, Facebook, Twitter and all these powerful kill-the-intermediary communication tools, the book won’t … Continue reading
Family
Often it is only shared blood that constitutes the basis for a group of people to be called “family.” Sometimes a family is emotionally stronger for lack of blood ties. Which ever it is, family is such a fundamental concept … Continue reading
Contemplating race
Interesting article in The Atlantic Monthly. It creates a picture of some of the ways the U.S. racial divide has manifested itself culturally in recent times, for example with hip hop on one side, and white trash studies on the … Continue reading
2009
From time to time in the period just before the latest U.S. presidential election, one heard comparisons between the George W. Bush regime and Germany’s Wiemar Republic of 1919-1933. The gist was that W’s attempts to wield absolute power, fight … Continue reading
The Shell
Around the 12th century the representation of the shell came to symbolize Christian pilgrims, or the pilgrimage itself within Europe to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Not being a scholar in these matters, I can only point to others’ research … Continue reading
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