The 1920′s are characterized as a decade of prosperity. Though initially economic in nature, this prosperity diffused into all other arenas of American life. It was the age of the flapper, of speakeasies, and of trivial spending. It was an era that threatened the image of the Victorian woman – – timid, conservative and polite [...]
Erudite and thickly-written essay in The Chronicle Of Higher Education by David Barash speaking to the need of “a general theory of individuality.” It’s back to the theory of self for us. In part, the resistance encountered by human sociobiology, Darwinian psychology, evolutionary psychology—call it what you will—may reflect that none of the “ultimate” interpretations [...]
You are reading this on a device powered by a micro-processor, rendered by photo-electric diodes, built from bits and bytes. You are processing the signifier of each letter in its encoded meaning through each word, and cumulatively, through the combination of words that appear on the screen. The contract between you and I is that [...]
via mjperry.blogspot.com More people, living longer, consuming more resources, increasing competition, drives innovation. I look back over my lifetime and believe that the single biggest force of change has been the growth of the U.S. population from 150 million to 300 million and the global population from about 3 billion to 7 billion. One major [...]
via youtube.com This city was a thriving port at the end of the Bronze Age, occupied 5000 years ago. A team of archeologists surveying it realized, as they cataloged the artifacts, that the town was older than they had imagined. It has been submerged for centuries, resting peacefully in shallow waters on what once was [...]
There’s a lot of concern about employment in the U.S., justifiably so, as a multitude of companies have trimmed their workforce to reflect current or anticipated downturns in results. Here are some useful charts from the Bureau of Labor Statistics: The first looks at the growth in the labor force over the past 10 years. [...]
The danger of this time is that you stop to watch, wonder about what will come next. The parameters that you assessed the future with — economic, social, political — are all at play. You can’t assume, and now there isn’t much confidence that you can project either. What does the utter climate of uncertainty [...]