THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN SOCIETY As I approach graduation (again) from Community College in Social Service Work, I have gradually come to the realisation that I have been able to discern, throughout my 20 years as a Tour…
THE ROLE OF THE MEDIA IN SOCIETY As I approach graduation (again) from Community College in Social Service Work, I have gradually come to the realisation that I have been able to discern, throughout my 20 years as a Tour…
MY ‘SMART PHONE’ MAKES ME FEEL STUPID: BUT THEN AGAIN, I GUESS THAT’S THE WHOLE POINT OF THE EXERCISE! I was lying on the couch this afternoon on a grey and drizzly December afternoon as we near year’s end, contemplating…
AMERICA IS AT WAR WITH HER VERY SOUL: UNCLE SAM AND LADY LIBERTY ARE HAVING A DOMESTIC DISPUTE As 2016 draws to a close and the upcoming American Inauguration approaches, I am pausing to reflect upon the very Herculean task…
A REASSESSMENT OF DONALD TRUMP’S BID FOR THE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: NEW YORK TIMES COVERAGE OF TRUMP RALLIES REVEALS TO ME THE PRESENCE OF THE WORST ELEMENTS OF AMERICAN SOCIETY LURKING WITHIN THE TRUMP CAMP. …
DONALD TRUMP : THE BELL WEATHER WHO HAS GIVEN VOICE TO A MULTITUDE OF HERETOFORE UNSPOKEN AND TABOO GRIEVANCES OF AMERICANS WHICH, IN THE POSTMODERN, POST-INDUSTRIAL SECULAR PROGRESSIVE WORLD OF POLITICAL CORRECTNESS AND ‘REVERSE PROGRESSIVE TYRANNY’, HAS TOUCHED OFF A POWDER…
THE CLIMATE CHANGE DOUBTERS: HOW MUDDYING THE WATERS WITH UNCERTITUDE KEEPS THE WORLD FROM ADDRESSING A VERY REAL PROBLEM BY DOUBTING THE VERY EXISTENCE OF THE PROBLEM IN THE FIRST PLACE! (SOUNDS LIKE AN OLD DRUNK IN DENIAL ACTUALLY! HO…
TELEOGENIC PATHOLOGY: THE ORIGIN OF POST WWII NORTH AMERICAN SOCIETY. The root origin of post WWII North American society, one which is based upon the automobile as a putative expression of individual liberty, freedom, prosperity, unfettered mobility and ultimately of…
PRINCESSES AND TRIGGER HAPPY VIDEO GAME BOYS ON SKATEBOARDS AND BMXS: HOW CONSUMER CULTURE HAS CORRUPTED AND KILLED THE CULTURE OF LIFE AND FAMILY AND ENGENDERED A TOXIC CULTURE OF UNREALISTIC FAIRYTALES, DEATH AND DOOM. I was thinking this afternoon…
WESTERN CIVILIZATION HAS MADE US SICK, POOR, FAT AND STUPID: ‘WHERE DO WE GO NOW’ FROM HERE SWEET CHILD OF MINE? David Lee Roth had a song in 1987 off of his ‘Skyscraper’ album called ‘two fools born a minute’,…
HOW MEDIA AFFECTS OUR BEHAVIOUR I remember a time when 13-14 year old girls in North America most certainly did NOT talk like Valley Girls from Encino CA. The game-changer which altered the lay of the land was in 1983,…