cultural impacts
UPDATE: Kids and Climate Paranoia
22/08/08 11:40
UPDATE: You can see
a short video
of these kids from
the week as described below. A marketing piece,
but a very nice one.
Originally posted: 25 June 2008
I’m old enough that I was among the last generation to grow up with serious, warranted nightmares about massive nuclear exchanges between the U.S. and Soviet Union. I can remember being about six or seven and first learning about total nuclear annihilation; I had nightmares for a while, and I felt a consistent sense of fear and unease, certainly well into Bush 41’s presidency. I never had to deal with duck and cover drills like the generation before me, but I always felt aware of this potential doom, which felt completely out of my hands. The undercurrent of that time is hard to explain to people who haven’t lived through it.
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Originally posted: 25 June 2008
I’m old enough that I was among the last generation to grow up with serious, warranted nightmares about massive nuclear exchanges between the U.S. and Soviet Union. I can remember being about six or seven and first learning about total nuclear annihilation; I had nightmares for a while, and I felt a consistent sense of fear and unease, certainly well into Bush 41’s presidency. I never had to deal with duck and cover drills like the generation before me, but I always felt aware of this potential doom, which felt completely out of my hands. The undercurrent of that time is hard to explain to people who haven’t lived through it.
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The Evil of Nature
06/04/08 15:40
I wrote this piece as
a letter to some unknown journal almost a year ago
after reading Susan Nieman's great book of ethical
philosophy on the nature of evil and its influence
on modern consciousness. I haven't decided if I'll
send it into a journal yet -- with additional
revisions, as I think it's a bit pompous at the
moment -- but I offer it here for what it's
worth. Read
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