https://patrickdobson.com/234/ author, writer, scholar Sat, 24 Jan 2015 23:33:34 +0000 hourly 1 https://patrickdobson.com/234/#comment-40 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:16:22 +0000 https://patrickdobson.com/?p=234#comment-40 If there is such a thing as an institution anymore. Once a group gets above a certain size, movements begin, pioneers form a new sphere for groupthink, and eventually, they suck off other people from the original space, leaving it a hollow copy of once was. More people added to the fire – in this case the explosion of the Internet, ca. '94→Present – means fuel for the fires stoked by those who want to segregate and ghettoize, building their own iron curtains to keep out the great unwashed. Add in the marketeers – professional liars – to the mix and the situation further accelerated, or rather degenerated, to what we have today.

]]> https://patrickdobson.com/234/#comment-39 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:12:38 +0000 https://patrickdobson.com/?p=234#comment-39 I can't say that I agree with your assertions about the nature of life and reality. Having grown up "atomized", I am very relieved to be "re-condensed" now. Relativism is gray, and thankfully truth is not relative. In order to "penetrate the cultural/social/political/economic fog with clear, universal, and humane storytelling" you must relate truth. I look forward to reading your endeavors.

]]> https://patrickdobson.com/234/#comment-38 Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:10:41 +0000 https://patrickdobson.com/?p=234#comment-38 the meta-met-a-story

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