Monthly Archives: January 2012

Did I tell you that I love technology? I do. I have all sorts of technological gadgets. Yet, the trend towards conformity in technology bothers me to know end. Alas, I recently encountered a former student, a Mr. James Michael Curcio, who is more like me than not with respect to refusing to become servile to technology. All I can say is: Oh, how wonderful! Continue reading →

Creative Blame radically undermines the wherewithal or, at any rate, the motivations of a person to take stock of her or his life by, among other things, undermining the exercise of foresight. One consequence, then, is Creative Blame will destroy the good of human society as we know it. Given the present trajectory of Creative Blame, it is just a matter of time before the very idea of individuals being responsible for their very own lives will have no purchase at all upon our lives. Continue reading →

There is no better indication of the demise of a society than the extent to which self-deception prevails in an increasing global manner in that society. The practice of being irresponsible and blaming others has increasingly become the norm in American society. And make no mistake about it: That is a most ominous sign. Continue reading →

Accents do not bother me.  If a person speaks well, it simply does not matter to me that she or he has an accent.  What does bother me enormously is the complete abuse and misuse of English.  And seems to … Continue reading →

There is simply no correlation whatsoever between being free and being responsible. Never have so many been so free and at the same inclined to blame others for their own mistakes and foolhardiness. What Plato grasped as well as anyone, if not more fully than anyone, is that freedom without the proper moral training will mutate into a form of living hell Continue reading →