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skipper commented on the post, Witness to the Acceleration of Change 8 years, 3 months ago
You have a deal. The Sid Caesar Show, “Your Show of Shows”, is a loved series of the mariner. See them today at https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=title+of+sid+caesar+television+show&qpvt=title+of+sid+ceasar+television+show&FORM=VQFRML .
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skipper commented on the post, Witness to the Acceleration of Change 8 years, 3 months ago
It is fortunate that good times slow change if only for a few years. Ben is right that the US maintains the highest standard of living in the world since about 1812. A halftime experience requires collaboration between economics, a feeling of cultural confidence, lack of military threat, and the absence of institutional oppression.
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skipper commented on the post, Witness to the Acceleration of Change 8 years, 3 months ago
Your sensitivity to the human condition, especially in the first half of the twentieth century, is acknowledged. However, the post is limited in its scope and cannot address civilization in all its detail. A single theme is the rule and, as the title suggests, the theme is about the constancy of change in American society. In the sixties, the…[Read more]
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skipper wrote a new post, Witness to the Acceleration of Change 8 years, 3 months ago
Addressing the older folks for a moment, remember when . . .
Reality was dependable. It was familiar. There was time to pause. Weather was the common conversation. Religion had been around a long time and […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Migration – the Great Culture Changer 8 years, 3 months ago
Mariner was watching the weekend television information shows, which are informative shows, not news shows. He noticed a comment, just one sentence on GPS, the Global Public Square with Fareed Zakaria, that today […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Merry Christmas 8 years, 3 months ago
Mariner is sorry that the Christmas season occurs during such torment and unstatesmanlike conduct in our government. We must endure; it is our duty as citizens. These are times of dramatic change in our society. […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Social Skill of Conversation 8 years, 3 months ago
This is an awkward post to write. First, it’s mostly about the mariner himself. Secondly, it is about others who have impressed mariner only to intensify his rambling, unmanageable mind. Controlling a thread of m […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Attack on Tribal Culture 8 years, 4 months ago
As a sociology major in college, mariner studied many types of society. There are many reasons for a unifying culture to come into being. When the age of agriculture gave way to industrialism around 1760, the […]
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skipper wrote a new post, A Great Tomorrow 8 years, 4 months ago
Scientific American magazine published its annual ‘top 10 technologies to change the future’ – ideas that are poised to transform society! Mariner remembers when Neil deGrasse Tyson had his first series on the U […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Great Experiment in Peril 8 years, 4 months ago
In 2016, Eric Metaxas published a book called “If They can Keep it.[1]” In a post, mariner reviewed it at the time. Metaxas took the title from a phrase Benjamin Franklin spoke upon leaving a meeting of the fou […]
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skipper wrote a new post, The Judge and the Ladies 8 years, 4 months ago
Roy Moore is an unavoidable brouhaha. It’s like watching water drain down a sink after cleaning vegetables. Every issue that has anything to do with politics, news media, simple human ethics, government p […]
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skipper wrote a new post, What is it? 8 years, 4 months ago
You can feel it. Everyone can. It is similar to flying through the Universe faster than the speed of light. It feels like a tennis match using a dozen balls instead of one. It whirls you about like a carnival […]
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Those who are now over 30 whose anthem was “The times they are a changin” may rue the day they thought change was the harbinger of a brave new world. Who knew it would lead to this? Probably lots of people–but nothing anyone can do to stem the tide of a rising sea. Change will not be held back, but the hope is that it can be diverted by divers means.
(If mariner still holds on to the archaic ‘divers’ which has not been used in more than a century, it is no wonder he is dismayed by the pace of change! For that matter, does anyone have time to ‘rue the day’ any more?)
This is an eloquent depiction of the way change feels. Are there seatbelts on carnival rides? And what does it matter if the carny at the controls is a narcissist with a short attention span?
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skipper wrote a new post, Becoming Really Old 8 years, 4 months ago
Mariner’s household watched HBO’s clip ‘If you’re not in the Obit, Eat Breakfast’ produced by Carl Reiner. It’s a fluff piece about the secret to living happily into one’s nineties. The sociological statistics on […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Global War already has begun 8 years, 4 months ago
On last Sunday’s broadcast of Global Public Square (GPS), Fareed Zakaria covered the prospect of modern warfare. The point was raised that the new bullet is hacking a computer system. Just as the world is t […]
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skipper commented on the post, 100010101110111001001101111110010001011000100100101 8 years, 5 months ago
Wish I could say the same. All the examples except the medical option in a bridge already are marketed. A different medical package has existed for some time embedded under the skin. Mariner did not venture into computers that can think for themselves; Google has a computer that taught itself the board game ‘GO’ with no human input. Mariner can’t…[Read more]
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skipper wrote a new post, 100010101110111001001101111110010001011000100100101 8 years, 5 months ago
Next Thursday mariner plans to upgrade his eyeglass prescription. He is undecided about whether to tune them to Dish or DirecTV or Roku; so many options . . . His bridgework is due for an upgrade, too. Should he […]
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Aaaargh! Good grief, I just hope a lot of this is tongue-in-cheek.
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Wish I could say the same. All the examples except the medical option in a bridge already are marketed. A different medical package has existed for some time embedded under the skin. Mariner did not venture into computers that can think for themselves; Google has a computer that taught itself the board game ‘GO’ with no human input. Mariner can’t find Chicken Little at the moment . . .
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skipper wrote a new post, Feeling Change 8 years, 5 months ago
The Third Wave, a centrist organization performing polls and focus groups, visited the back country of Wisconsin to interview focus groups about the 2016 election.[1] The sessions were rich in wise, insightful […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Thought Provoking 8 years, 5 months ago
Mariner and his wife consider The Atlantic the premier magazine in print today. The Atlantic provides thoughtful, rational and valuable articles that cover society from one end to the other. Below, mariner […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Political Nits 8 years, 5 months ago
One has to hand it to Donald. One of his personally owned golf courses claimed a charity donation of five million dollars. NPR dug into it and could only find $80 thousand. The golf course and Donald have ignored […]
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skipper wrote a new post, Each Brain Talks Differently 8 years, 5 months ago
We are not aware that we talk the way our brain thinks. For example, if you are a good administrator, it’s because your brain thinks procedurally. If you feel a duty to always complete tasks, it’s because your bra […]
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Interesting food for thought. I’ve been thinking about my prejudices, too, and how to clean the slate.
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What a concise and cogent trip through the decades of our lifetime. I guess the late 40’s and 50’s were a halftime of sorts, too, after the devastation of WWII. Maybe little half time breaks in history are all we ever get. I think we don’t always realize how much of our life experience is dictated by the era we happen to be born into. Or how much our personal lives are affected by decisions made at a national level–which is why voting matters.
Difficult as this journey through the decades has been–as son Ben reminds me–we live remarkably comfortable lives compared to the whole history of humanity. I just hope we get another halftime soon!
It is fortunate that good times slow change if only for a few years. Ben is right that the US maintains the highest standard of living in the world since about 1812. A halftime experience requires collaboration between economics, a feeling of cultural confidence, lack of military threat, and the absence of institutional oppression.
Only if you throw in some Sid Caesar and Red Skelton once in awhile!
You have a deal. The Sid Caesar Show, “Your Show of Shows”, is a loved series of the mariner. See them today at https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=title+of+sid+caesar+television+show&qpvt=title+of+sid+ceasar+television+show&FORM=VQFRML .
While there is certainly truth in these descriptions, it’s also important to remember that those golden eras were a time of serious repression for so many people. Norman Rockwell life has never existed for everyone, only some.
Your sensitivity to the human condition, especially in the first half of the twentieth century, is acknowledged. However, the post is limited in its scope and cannot address civilization in all its detail. A single theme is the rule and, as the title suggests, the theme is about the constancy of change in American society. In the sixties, the oppressed race joined in change with the Civil Rights issue and remains a participant in change today.
Thanks for responding.