stumped.....................

 I’ve always been stumped by people’s naivety, or willingness to accept for others what they themselves would never abide.

-Joel Hirst, from here

The Intertunnel as a ....................

........................teaching tool?   Unlike most of my faithful readers, I did not know the meaning of "panopticon."   I'm sorry I looked it up.   Sometimes you are just better off not knowing.

Life in the Age of Snowden

8.   Ever since Edward ███████, I don’t feel free ███████ ██ ███ ██████ █████ and also in ████ ████. The ███ ██ ███-███████ ██, █████ ██ happily keep watching Netflix. For me, this █████ ████████ █████ ██ █ self-censorship that makes me want to ████. ██ ███ and █ really ████ ███████ in our █████, we should keep asking ourselves whether we really want to live under these conditions.

As excerpted from this post at the friendly anarchist blog.

On Puritans.......................

"At the bottom of Puritanism one finds envy of the fellow who is having a better time in the world, and hence hatred of him.  At the bottom of democracy one finds the same thing."

"The objection to Puritans is not that they try to make us think as they do, but that they try to make us do as they think."

-Henry Louis Mencken, as excerpted from A Little Book in C Major

Regurgitation.............................

Even casual followers of this blog will recognize how much I value the wonder that is YouTube.  So, it was with great interest that I read this quote from Pat Metheny:

"It's an unexpected turn of events for me. When you play that crappy gig in Germany in 1983, it's like, 'OK, we got through that one, and it's behind us.' Then it gets regurgitated 20 years later. The main thing is the way it limits the possibilities now. I used to love going and playing jam sessions, doing things spontaneously. I can't do that anymore. Everything you do is documented, nothing is casual anymore. You can't even have a conversation with someone after the gig, because there's somebody filming it. It turns out the Big Brother thing that was predicted, it's us."

Full interview is here.

thanks mungo