Philosophy
Today is my birthday and I've been thinking about the way we celebrate people. When people are alive, we celebrate them in time -- birthdays, anniversaries, and the like. But when people die, we celebrate them in space -- grave sites, accident sites, etc. This flips, however, when the person is famous. Living famous people are celebrated in space -- celebrity homes, places where great feats were accomplished, but famous dead people are celebrated in time, e.g., Washington's birthday.
This seems to be transferring with technology to cyberspace where Facebook allows us to celebrate the birthdays of the living and creates virtual spaces to allow remembrances of those who have passed.
- Heritage Not Hate?
In the last week, we have had the Virginia governor declare April Confederate History Month and downplay the role of slavery and had Mississippi governor and former chair of the Republican National Committee Haley Barber back him up declaring the unimportance...
- Hallowing Ground
On my way into work, I drive winding country roads that take me past the cemetery at Gettysburg. Along those roads, I am finding more and more makeshift memorials marking the places people have died in traffic accidents. Thinking about them, they seem...
- Holidays Are Hypocrisy
Brothers, Sisters, and Transgendered Comedists everywhere, New bit I'm working on: Yes, Christmas comes but once a year. Kinda like being married... You know, I have a theory about the holidays. Holidays are hypocrisy. The term "holiday" comes from...
- Walt Whitman - Song Of Myself
The poetic style of free verse was born from the iconoclastic mind of Walt Whitman, an American poet who embodied the concepts of individualism and defiance to his core. On the one hand, the invention of free verse made it possible for geniuses such as...
- Mattel, Nasa, Mars=mars Explorer Barbie
"She's a Barbie girl in an INTERGALACTIC world: Nasa teams up with Mattel to turn the red planet pink with a Mars Explorer doll" Mars Explorer Barbie comes with a spacesuit, helmet and oxygen tank It has been launched to celebrate the Mars Curiosity...
Philosophy
Space, Time, and Celebration
Today is my birthday and I've been thinking about the way we celebrate people. When people are alive, we celebrate them in time -- birthdays, anniversaries, and the like. But when people die, we celebrate them in space -- grave sites, accident sites, etc. This flips, however, when the person is famous. Living famous people are celebrated in space -- celebrity homes, places where great feats were accomplished, but famous dead people are celebrated in time, e.g., Washington's birthday.
This seems to be transferring with technology to cyberspace where Facebook allows us to celebrate the birthdays of the living and creates virtual spaces to allow remembrances of those who have passed.
- Heritage Not Hate?
In the last week, we have had the Virginia governor declare April Confederate History Month and downplay the role of slavery and had Mississippi governor and former chair of the Republican National Committee Haley Barber back him up declaring the unimportance...
- Hallowing Ground
On my way into work, I drive winding country roads that take me past the cemetery at Gettysburg. Along those roads, I am finding more and more makeshift memorials marking the places people have died in traffic accidents. Thinking about them, they seem...
- Holidays Are Hypocrisy
Brothers, Sisters, and Transgendered Comedists everywhere, New bit I'm working on: Yes, Christmas comes but once a year. Kinda like being married... You know, I have a theory about the holidays. Holidays are hypocrisy. The term "holiday" comes from...
- Walt Whitman - Song Of Myself
The poetic style of free verse was born from the iconoclastic mind of Walt Whitman, an American poet who embodied the concepts of individualism and defiance to his core. On the one hand, the invention of free verse made it possible for geniuses such as...
- Mattel, Nasa, Mars=mars Explorer Barbie
"She's a Barbie girl in an INTERGALACTIC world: Nasa teams up with Mattel to turn the red planet pink with a Mars Explorer doll" Mars Explorer Barbie comes with a spacesuit, helmet and oxygen tank It has been launched to celebrate the Mars Curiosity...