Glass bead game has made a slight turn for the better. The main character came up with some of the same complaints I had, and left the order of cloistered obsessives to live in the actual world and do something real with all his knowledge--tutor a child. His story now seems to be over now, …
Dependence on technology
My blog post yesterday was late because I set the posting time for 1130 PM instead of AM, and just trusted it to post at the usual time. I recently read that people who rely on GPS learn the streets of their area slower, and with less accuracy. I always have been a proponent of …
A ghost
Sometimes it feels like I am one... do I have any effect on anything? Can anyone hear me, see me? Will anyone read anything I write? There can be an impulse to do something crazy, absurd, drastic--just to see if anyone notices you are there. To see if anyone looks up from their phone for …
Monastery life
I think I could be happy being a monk/scholar/priest, whatever you want to call it. A person who leaves behind 'life' in order to devote themselves to the world of the mind/spirit. If I could spend every waking hour studying, reading, learning, teaching, etc, I think I could give up material possessions and all the …
Mind games
I've started reading 'The Glass Bead Game' by Herman Hesse, mainly because the title made me think of go. The story features a fictional game that is very abstract and deals with concepts and ideas as the 'pieces'. The players are intellectual elites who use pieces of knowledge or pieces of culture to play their games. The …
Jonas David 