Are you here? . . . Say what?
I heard a professor say, once, scolding a student: ”Context, context, context.” Noam Chomsky, 1998?
A Politician’s Word
Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.
Reflection on Fascism: An Exercise in Empathy
The lot of us, even the smart ones, are mostly echo-birds, seeing what we want to see in the environment, dismissing that which does not register; commenting obliquely in public and derisively in private, once we’ve found our clan, our sense of grouping, on the oddities and variances in others, those things which make them ...
Mario Savio
I’d like to add this to our library. Many will recognize it, as it is a classic in the history of machine consciousness. Mario Savio came from humble beginnings, and he never held any official authority. Yet he spoke powerfully and with an instinct for recognizing the enormity of the problem that American empire–with its ...
