Another great intro to this topic is the 2016 documentary, “Hypernormalisation” by British filmmaker Adam Curtis. Easy to find on streaming services and worth a watch, as are all of his films.
--Eric N > On Mar 24, 2021, at 2:16 PM, Scott G. <sco...@primax.com> wrote: > > > I think I have been hanging out in a different reality than Mr. Moulton. > Great Grandad explained the the world had gone to hell once the Emperor Franz > Joseph died. > > >> On Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 4:33:52 PM UTC-4 George Schick wrote: >> Glad you brought those points up, Patrick. There was a time in our nation >> when rewards were external. Sure, people took pride in what they did, but >> they saw the reward in what earning a living did for their families. Not >> any more. Beginning with our Boomer generation (yep, I'm one of 'em, too) >> rewards began to become internalized - first it was something like "I feel >> rewarded (internally) when see what my teaching, etc. does for my students. >> Now it's gone down to the point where I feel good about who I think I am >> (and I'll leave it go at that). Carl Trueman wrote a book that was >> published last year entitled, "The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self: >> Cultural Amnesia, Expressive Individualism, and the Road to the Sexual >> Revolution." In it he does an excellent job of tracing the roots of how got >> to where we are as a culture from the 17th Century up to the late 20th and >> the impact that philosophers, poets, artists, and psychoanalysts had and how >> they finally culminated in what became known as deconstructionism. >> >> >>> On Wednesday, March 24, 2021 at 12:00:58 PM UTC-5 Patrick Moore wrote: >>> Good points. Moulton reminds me of Matthew Crawford's Shop Class as Soul >>> Craft where he argues that even the "base mechanical arts" (Crawford's >>> examples are electrician and motorcycle mechanic) incline the practitioner >>> to both moral and intellectual virtue (in the traditional sense; Crawford >>> is that rarest of birds, an Aristotelian who is not a Thomist) because they >>> force one regularly to submit to reality external to the ego. This would be >>> even more true for a creative craft, and both in contradiction to "digital" >>> and clerical trades, he says. >>> >>> He repeats this general theme -- we need close and regular involvement with >>> external reality to thrive -- with a slightly different slant in his later >>> The World Beyond Your Head >>> >>>> On Wed, Mar 24, 2021 at 8:40 AM Tim Baldwin <tbald...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> Dig it. I end up on his blog occasionally. He does have some good been >>>> around the block a few times wisdom. I think Grant may have linked to >>>> Dave's blog and that was how I ended up there. >>>> I was reading Lila by Robert Pirsig last night and got to a section >>>> talking about celebrity. A zen master once told him, "If you get too >>>> famous you will go straight to hell." The idea being that once you become >>>> a celebrity you have two personalities diverging, the true self and the >>>> image others have of you. This is true of all people to some extent but >>>> gets magnified when your fame increases, thus making it more difficult to >>>> get in touch with your true self. I don't have much desire to be famous >>>> but I would like to be happy. These are good reminders that happiness is a >>>> choice we make each day, not something that is given or owed to us. >>>> >>>>>> On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 10:57:55 PM UTC-5 Pam Bikes wrote: >>>>>> Thanks for posting. Good read. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>> On Tuesday, March 23, 2021 at 11:01:13 AM UTC-4 Patrick Moore wrote: >>>>>>> I guess not too many on this list read a blog by a retired builder of >>>>>>> racing frames, but Moulton has a fund of basic wisdom in his very old >>>>>>> age. He's not a wise man, but he's a practical man who grew up in >>>>>>> harder times, worked at a real craft, and has mellowed in old age. FWIW. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> http://davesbikeblog.squarespace.com >>>>>>> >>>>>>> -- >>>>>>> >>>>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>>>>>> Patrick Moore >>>>>>> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>> >>>> -- >>>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>>> "RBW Owners Bunch" group. >>>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>>> email to rbw-owners-bun...@googlegroups.com. >>>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>>> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/ee0c7fdb-c872-4260-8055-2c4ca3f152fdn%40googlegroups.com. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------- >>> Patrick Moore >>> Alburquerque, Nuevo Mexico, Etats Unis d'Amerique, Orbis Terrarum >>> >>> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "RBW Owners Bunch" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/558c5b6d-d191-445e-a5b9-02eca126b07fn%40googlegroups.com. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. 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