My Blog
This blog is devoted to a study of modern cultural phenomena such as contemporary art, movies, books, plays, politics, news, social media, etc. My…
John’s Blog
A Note of Caution
As our crisis deepens, I keep reading and hearing messages of hope, even profound hope and of transformation. Modern mystics report visions of a better…
Grasping at Straws
During an idle afternoon recently I played with simplistic possible models of the spread of Corona virus. Just today I came across an ABC article…
Corona and Maths
CORONA VIRUS AND MATHS The corona virus doubles every few days, making its expansion exponential. An exponential curve is written like this: ax, where a…
What Matters Now?
WHAT MATTERS NOW? Although I am thoroughly in the camp that we must collectively go through this catastrophe that seems to be triggered by the…
Kandinsky’s Dot
everything begins with a dot …. Kandinsky Artwork by Russell Lockhart * * * until i surrender living a life…
Soul of COVID-19
The soul of any phenomenon, like COVID-19 for example, lies “within” the language that we use to describe it, The soul of the phenomenon, here a…