Joseph L. Persia's Blog, page 3
October 8, 2015
The video focuses on Hayao Miyazaki', an amazing storyteller whose style and the emotional character...
The video focuses on Hayao Miyazaki', an amazing storyteller whose style and the emotional character intricacies are lessons for all story tellers���
September 26, 2015
This is an Interesting concept about the inter dependency and the connection of all things. Consider...
This is an Interesting concept about the inter dependency and the connection of all things. Consider the act of writing. We prove the concept every day. Words become connected into sentence; sentences become paragraphs; paragraphs become novels, novels become art, which reveal the inter-dependency and connection to every living thing upon the earth.���
This is an Interesting concept about the interdependency and the connection of all things. Consider ...
This is an Interesting concept about the inter-dependency and the connection of all things. Consider the act of writing. We prove the concept every day. Words become connected into sentence; sentences become paragraphs; paragraphs become novels, novels become art, which reveal the inter-dependentcy and connection to every living thing upon the earth.���
September 1, 2015
April 20, 2015
���Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment...
���Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.���
Oscar Wilde
So, what is it about the writer,�� the prophets, and the visionary?�����
Oscar Wilde
So, what is it about the writer,�� the prophets, and the visionary?�����
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment...
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
Oscar Wilde
So, what is it about the writer, the prophets, and the visionary?
Oscar Wilde
So, what is it about the writer, the prophets, and the visionary?
April 2, 2015
Waiting for the Sun
In 1930, Jean Cocteau wrote this haunting monologue The Human Voice, a play intimately...
Waiting for the Sun
In 1930, Jean Cocteau wrote this haunting monologue The Human Voice, a play intimately concerned with the blind spots in communication that technologically brings forth. We sit in front of the radiance of our computer screens having total control, but even a lonely person has control. There seems to be a nagging sense at times of something left out or left behind. The connection is not the same thing as intimacy. The heart and soul of communication is the intimacy of our most cherished thoughts, ideas, and feeling. Yet, every new tech releases its own mediated failures of communication as it changes the patterns of communication and shake-up the social order. And what is sometimes forgotten is that the future does not pop-up out of thin air as the old cliché that there is nothing new under the sun would indicate. Mediated failures of communication are as true and heartbreaking in today’s new world of communication, as it was in 1930. The story consists of nothing more than a woman speaking on a weak communication line trying to talk to her boyfriend who just announced he will be marrying someone else.
In 1930, Jean Cocteau wrote this haunting monologue The Human Voice, a play intimately concerned with the blind spots in communication that technologically brings forth. We sit in front of the radiance of our computer screens having total control, but even a lonely person has control. There seems to be a nagging sense at times of something left out or left behind. The connection is not the same thing as intimacy. The heart and soul of communication is the intimacy of our most cherished thoughts, ideas, and feeling. Yet, every new tech releases its own mediated failures of communication as it changes the patterns of communication and shake-up the social order. And what is sometimes forgotten is that the future does not pop-up out of thin air as the old cliché that there is nothing new under the sun would indicate. Mediated failures of communication are as true and heartbreaking in today’s new world of communication, as it was in 1930. The story consists of nothing more than a woman speaking on a weak communication line trying to talk to her boyfriend who just announced he will be marrying someone else.
March 17, 2015
Did China Just Put A Cute Face On Their Power To Stop Ideas?��
It's one thing when China with one of...
Did China Just Put A Cute Face On Their Power To Stop Ideas?��
It's one thing when China with one of the most oppressive, propagandizing, and paranoid countries on the planet wants have there own store to sell stuff ��to their own people, but it���s entirely another matter when they want their own giant book store to sell books (ideas) to one third of the population and perhaps beyond their population. And they do sell it to the rest of us so�� well so cutely and sublime with all its cuteness, knowing all latest Madison Avenue trimmings; informed about how to follow the latest commercial trends in music, fashion and party political ideas.�� Don���t get me wrong, I actually like the Chinese culture, but these current Communist government Party boys, well, they give me pause and maybe it should give you pause as well.
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When books which are the representatives of ���ideas��� are controlled by the State that has a history of suppressing ideas, they have the power to burn books before they ever see the light of day. And that���s not cute.���
It's one thing when China with one of the most oppressive, propagandizing, and paranoid countries on the planet wants have there own store to sell stuff ��to their own people, but it���s entirely another matter when they want their own giant book store to sell books (ideas) to one third of the population and perhaps beyond their population. And they do sell it to the rest of us so�� well so cutely and sublime with all its cuteness, knowing all latest Madison Avenue trimmings; informed about how to follow the latest commercial trends in music, fashion and party political ideas.�� Don���t get me wrong, I actually like the Chinese culture, but these current Communist government Party boys, well, they give me pause and maybe it should give you pause as well.
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When books which are the representatives of ���ideas��� are controlled by the State that has a history of suppressing ideas, they have the power to burn books before they ever see the light of day. And that���s not cute.���
Did China Put A Cute Face On Their Power To Stop Ideas?
It one thing when China with one the most ...
Did China Put A Cute Face On Their Power To Stop Ideas?
It one thing when China with one the most oppressive, propagandizing, and paranoid countries on the planet wants have there own store to sell stuff to their own people, but it’s entirely another matter when they want their own giant book store to sell books (ideas) to one third of the population and perhaps beyond their population. And they do sell it to the rest of us so well so cutely and sublime with all its cuteness, knowing all latest Madison Avenue trimmings; informed about how to follow the latest commercial trends in music, fashion and party political ideas. Don’t get me wrong, I actually like the Chinese culture, but current government Party boy, well, they give me pause and maybe it should give you pause as well.
When books that represent “ideas” are controlled by the State and that has a history of suppressing ideas, they have the power to burn books before they ever see the light of day. And that’s not cute.
It one thing when China with one the most oppressive, propagandizing, and paranoid countries on the planet wants have there own store to sell stuff to their own people, but it’s entirely another matter when they want their own giant book store to sell books (ideas) to one third of the population and perhaps beyond their population. And they do sell it to the rest of us so well so cutely and sublime with all its cuteness, knowing all latest Madison Avenue trimmings; informed about how to follow the latest commercial trends in music, fashion and party political ideas. Don’t get me wrong, I actually like the Chinese culture, but current government Party boy, well, they give me pause and maybe it should give you pause as well.
When books that represent “ideas” are controlled by the State and that has a history of suppressing ideas, they have the power to burn books before they ever see the light of day. And that’s not cute.
March 2, 2015
Hey, ever wonder if we are getting any smarter?
Moral philosopher James Flynn has put a great deal ...
Hey, ever wonder if we are getting any smarter?
Moral philosopher James Flynn has put a great deal of time gathering his data and thoughts on the subject of our intelligence, a question most of us have asked ourselves at one time or another. Flynn in this lecture suggests that changes in the way we think is raising "IQ" in many parts of the world including, our own. But are we really "smarter" than our grandparents?
Moral philosopher James Flynn has put a great deal of time gathering his data and thoughts on the subject of our intelligence, a question most of us have asked ourselves at one time or another. Flynn in this lecture suggests that changes in the way we think is raising "IQ" in many parts of the world including, our own. But are we really "smarter" than our grandparents?
