I’ve rediscovered the value of local news channels. Via the Egyptian Ahram Online. In its capacity as a “local news channel” that I seek, I am looking for it to present its particular brand of foreignness (the type which knows that everyone else is foreign). Ahram Online achieves this via three means, each of which may be contrasted (partly for amusement’s sake) with...
Has content become liberated from medium? The Walking Dead is an example that can be imbibed as either/all of comic (read), tv show (watch), or game (play). However, as an example it begs the question. After all, to what extent did the franchise retain its essence across the media? I choose that nasty scholastic term as an obvious provocation. It is obvious that some cases fail to promote the...
Meta: The first thing I’d like to note today is that yesterday’s meta-worries were both baseless and valuable. They demonstrated both these properties (virtues?) and in doing so characterised what is perhaps most valuable about this diary-style writing, namely, “try-it-and-see” and “learn-from-experience”. Yesterday’s example is perhaps in itself not...
Editorial notes: This is the first of 51 Evernote entries titled according to the date on which they were written, making this a personal, chronological journal of observations, lessons learned and conclusions, together with an element of diary writing. Synopsis: Today I discover a foreign news service, muse about its benefits, get side-tracked onto developing an open mind. And then finally added...
There’s this belief that the world is OK. How to address this? How about step 1: What is the nature of the constituents of the matter of concern? Or as Socrates might be modernized, “What is the meaning of each thing?”. Truly ask this, because barely any do. Plato would have us believe that Socrates was the wisest just for knowing that he knew nothing. The implication is that...
Editorial notes: This Essay was found as a ‘draft’ entry in Everything2. It was last updated on 17/04/2013. Here’s an idea: What if a conspiracy does not need its members to be knowing participants? What next? We could go ahead and define a type of conspiracies as being those entities whose members are unknowing participants (MaUPs) – and these we can call m-conspiracies...
People are strange, when you’re a stranger The Doors – People Are Strange We’re born into a world submerged in strangers. They – the strangers – are everywhere, doing so many different things, and we know almost nothing about them. Looking around, we realize that we live between the cogs of an impersonal, gigantic clockwork; and yet, we’re social creatures...
