Hi, Patrick,
Didja try my new email address which oughta appear in the info-stuff above
this message?
I'm coasting the shallows of Seth Godin's _small is the new big_ lent by my
landlady, a brilliant explainer, mediator, communicator, entrepreneur, and
wit. Yest'day I scribbled shorthand notes that filled a little flip-up
spiral notebook after a nour's "interviewing" her for an article on local
women entrepreneurs. She has more bankable ideas than George Soros.
Years ago I'd heard my drama prof say wot may've been paraphrase-translated
from Guy Debord. Following's Debord, as translated by Black & Red in 1977:
"(T)he bourgeoisie is the only revolutionary class that ever won; at the
same time it is the only class for which the development of the economy was
the cause and the consequence of its taking hold of society. . ."
Like a True Middleclass Person, I like the MacBook Air as well as
googlemail----neat and logical. But I won't, thank you, Bear and Rodent,
purchase an SUV in England. Or the USA. A True MiddleClass Person, I'm
loving my hire car, an essentials-only Nissan 4-cyl (crank windows; no
remote locking device). Too bad Enterprise doesn't do standard
transmissions. Jury's still out on diesels and hybrids, whilst Brown & Co
"manfully" aims to higher-tax unGreen cars, and then reverses its decision.
Strikes me that most (mebbe all) Logical Fallacies are statements that fail
to wrap reality simply bcuz they lack more information or they distort
information. Last year I worked thoroly thru David Burns' _Ten Days to
Self-Esteem_, and could see a pattern of learned, unconscious self-blinding
of More Information or of the Balancing of Informations. The self-blinding
prevent people moving themselves forward, fulfilling themselves, being
social, creative, and useful.
And, natch, all of this connects to Janet Jackson and Dom Fox's powerful
thoughts on marriage and child-raising----on, as it happens, the Nuclear
Family. I'm now tryna find an article on the pragmatic ways contemporary
Icelanders help single mothers raise their children. Or was it
Greenlanders? (Hmmm....."ice" and "green" denote quite a distinction btn
the two countries, don't they?) Where's Kasper when you need him? Prolly
en vacance in the Orkneys.
'Til soon, then Sweet P,
joodles
2008/7/3 Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>:
> Joodles tried to email you it bounced back ;-(
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> Padraigus
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