Category: culture
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a post-truth world?
Chuck Todd on Meet the Press recently referred to the 2016 Presidential campaign as happening in the “post-truth world.” Add this to the post-church world and the post-modern world, and what you have is a whole new world. Get on board, or not. The very idea of a post-truth world sets my…
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Dylan the poet-1965
He was called a poet from the start, and commented about himself, “I’m a poet; I know it; I hope I don’t blow it.” (I Shall Be Free No. 10, 1962). His poetry was a medium inside a medium, delivering mind-shaping ideas and observations that confirmed our suspicions. The Guardian,…
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frontierland
I recently completed a vacation trip to California from Illinois, by car: Iowa, Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, Nevada—and returning through Idaho, Wyoming, South Dakota, and Minnesota. Open spaces, not many people, an amazing number of wind farms —a very different experience from what you see east of the Mississippi. It’s been awhile…
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the freedom to do good
I saw The Monuments Men movie recently and thought it lived up to the promotional interviews on Letterman and elsewhere with its various stars. Several years ago, a rich Texan named Robert Edsel got interested and then got really interested in the story of the actual “Monuments Men” from World…
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1968
1968 was the worst year ever. MLK and RFK. Riots. Viet Nam. An unrelentingly bad outlook for a mostly clueless college junior turning 21 that summer and thinking a lot about what sort of world he would be graduating into the following year (a much better year!). Drugs and beer…
Guy Cicero 