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skipper wrote a new post, Intuition 7 years, 6 months ago
When mariner was in his thirties, he took courses in sociology and psychology. He became interested in how an individual chooses lifestyle, career and hobbies. Certainly fate itself dictates a great number of […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The American Duty 7 years, 6 months ago
November 2018 is no longer an abstract date in the future. It is on the horizon. It is within the range of calendar notes for personal schedules. Election Day is November 6, a Tuesday. Mark it down on your […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Cultural Gerrymandering 7 years, 6 months ago
Before we get to mariner’s post, read the following statements:
From the Washington Post
By 2040, eight states will be home to nearly half (49.5 percent) of the country’s entire population. An imp […]
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skipper commented on the post, Real 7 years, 6 months ago
A new dimension in reality beyond electronics! Thanks. SKipper
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skipper wrote a new post, Real 7 years, 6 months ago
Mariner was sitting in his living room chair the other day taking a break from working outside in Iowa’s mid ninety temperatures and its supercharged humidity. He absentmindedly was looking about the room and no […]
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A new dimension in reality beyond electronics! Thanks. SKipper
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I enjoy that I can walk to my bank and recognize the people that work there, and they recognize me. That’s kind of unique in this city, at my age, and I remind myself not to take it for granted.
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skipper wrote a new post, UBI 7 years, 7 months ago
No sooner had mariner posted the last post about a new stratum, within minutes his wife handed him an article in the latest New Yorker magazine about universal base income (UBI)[1]. UBI is a concept where […]
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skipper commented on the post, A New Stratum 7 years, 7 months ago
Mariner understands your concern. What if meritocracy were defined as the right to be cared for? What is outdated about the US experiment in meritocracy is that everyone can’t be free or enabled at the same time. The European stratum in the eighteenth century was very much like today – elitist, economically unfair, and had strident religious…[Read more]
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skipper wrote a new post, A New Stratum 7 years, 7 months ago
The planet Earth has many layers of rock that have accumulated over eons of time. Each new layer sits atop an older layer. One layer is called a stratum. We who live on the surface are not aware of the many strata […]
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This is very interesting. I question the word meritocracy as it has overtones of elitism to me (because I would not rise very high in the ranks of a meritocracy!) I prefer equality of opportunity to a system that stratifies by ability. How does a meritocracy protect those with less merit but still have human needs? The bright and able will always manage somehow. Or have I totally missed the point!
The key sentence in your essay is “Importantly, what will happen to me!” That is my concern!
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Mariner understands your concern. What if meritocracy were defined as the right to be cared for? What is outdated about the US experiment in meritocracy is that everyone can’t be free or enabled at the same time. The European stratum in the eighteenth century was very much like today – elitist, economically unfair, and had strident religious qualifications. The US sought to escape the old stratum by freeing every citizen to be and do whatever is best for each citizen. As the post referenced in the spinning top analogy, it is time to rewind and toss again.
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skipper wrote a new post, Unplugged as Metaphor 7 years, 7 months ago
There was discussion about mariner’s self-imposed ‘isolation.’ It was perceived that mariner had separated himself from society by blocking channels of communication and information. It was suggested that, while […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Unplugged 7 years, 7 months ago
Mariner continues his elimination of television viewing. Except for tennis tournaments and a few PBS shows, the television sits dark. This attitude spreads to other means of communication. Noting that Verizon’s f […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Immigration and the Church 7 years, 7 months ago
In the days when Jesus was around, Israel was a theocracy. A theocracy is a nation run largely under the control of religion. The same was true in western culture when the Holy Roman Catholic Church dominated […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A Top Down Look 7 years, 7 months ago
Regular readers know that for several weeks mariner has been in spiritual sequestration. He deliberately retreated from any news source and ceased reading and searching for the latest tragedy, nonsense, and […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Privacy is the Right to Choose 7 years, 7 months ago
Privacy and choice are
two sides of the same coin
Can’t have one without
the other
Think about it
Ancient Mariner
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skipper wrote a new post, Share First, Bicker Later 7 years, 7 months ago
Will Rogers is mentioned from time to time in past posts. He is a member of mariner’s “Heroes of Human Life Hall of Fame.” In today’s post, mariner draws from Will’s life an example of genuine compassion and true […]
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skipper wrote a new post, On Being a Shut-in – 2 7 years, 7 months ago
Mariner thanks readers who responded with replies and emails. All were supportive. One reader suggested ‘shut-out’ would be a better term because the fact is there is no room for mariner in the state of the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, On Being a Shut-in 7 years, 7 months ago
Each of us knows at least one person who is a shut-in. There are different reasons for being a shut-in. If one is infirm, disabled, or functionally incompetent, obviously one has no choice but to live in the […]
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I am so sorry that Trump has beaten us into the ground, aided and abetted by his base, and the Republican Party that goes along with his repugnant personality and policies in order to get whatever it is they want. Power, I guess. It is a long, strange time in this country. It is no wonder Mariner wants to secede. We used to take cookies to the shut ins at Christmas time, because we thought the cookies would help to make their day a little brighter. I would bring cookies to Mariner’s door, but alas, he is on a carb restricted diet. Maybe that is part of the problem!
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Very, very sad. Almost like our friend Robert Barnes who has chosen to “live”in a nursing home where he has access to cable TV and the internet rather than actually work with a real doctor to regain the ability to get out of a chair or bed and be able to go home. I understand your malaise and feeling of hopelessness. I guess I’m almost with you in staying aloof from politics and preferring to work on language dictionaries and aged records than take part in protests or hand out flyers. I still vote, write scathing comments on Facebook, and sign petitions and occasionally write to Congress people, but that’s about it. But I still can see glimmers of hope and I’ll hang on to these faint hopes until Trump has been re-elected, then I’m pulling the covers over my head.
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Maybe instead of thinking of yourself as a “shut-in” you should use the term “shut-off”. You have shut-off the outside world in order to save your sanity and to better find your inner peace. The chaos and confusion will take care of itself just as you should maybe take the time now to take care of yourself. Focus inward to find the answers, the peace, love and joy that are in your life and get to know “thyself”.
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skipper wrote a new post, Just the Facts, Ma’am 7 years, 8 months ago
‘Fake News,’ conspiracy theory facts, salesman facts, politician facts, personal experience facts, in fact, any facts are not sacrosanct. They are subject to interpretation, pejorative evaluation, dism […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The World is Flat – a Growing Truth 7 years, 8 months ago
The news and other public activities struggle with fake news promoted always with an ulterior motive. It makes it difficult for the average citizen because fact checking, or at least cross referencing, is a new […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Environment as a Change Agent 7 years, 8 months ago
65 million years ago during the early Paleocene, the first primate-like creature evolved from the family Plesiadaptis. It was a small tree-climbing mammal that looked more like an insect-eating tree shrew. It was […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Corporatism – the Overlooked Enemy 7 years, 8 months ago
PBS news covered a story today about the National Football League setting rules for how football players must behave, the issue being whether the players can kneel in protest of racial and law enforcement abuse […]
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Fascinating. Don’t forget Myers-Briggs tests and aptitude tests which may at least offer directions and strategies to who we are and what we do best and how we learn it.
Marilu Henner’s brain must be wired in some incredible ways. I can understand remembering people, places, activities (all sight-oriented things), but dates? These are abstract things and are they accessed through a huge 1000-year calendar? Dates I can’t understand. Does Mariner have any ideas?
Yes, Marilu’s brain is wired in an amazing fashion. She has all the human memory attributes, feelings nuance, etc. and the power of a computerized multidimensional database. In a tv interview a few years ago she remembered the weather as well. Only twelve others on Earth with her brain.
As to Myers-Briggs, I used that test as part of my syllabus when I taught Project Management. The underlying analysis that created the table is sound but I found, almost universally, that individuals used their scores in negative ways to differentiate and to pursue vanity and conceitedness. I did not want that tone in the post. There are a number of other ‘personality’ tests like the MMPI used in corrections to determine criminal tendency. Sticking to passé pop-psych analysis seems friendliest and still valid.