The Wall Street Journal published what I found to be an unnerving article this week about how the pandemic necessitated the rise in not only technology use but in technology reliance. In the article, 20 points were listed. I read them while squinting through blue-light glasses that didn’t seem to make my…
Posts published in October 2020
Few works have had such monumental personal impact on my personal philosophies than Henry David Thoreau’s Walden (1854). I first read this masterful, albeit verbose, work when I was 19 years old, and have revisited it often for closer examinations. On each occasion, I take away a new insight. How…
The arbiters of information. Perpetual seekers of a scoop. The sometimes-affirming, sometimes-spurious mouthpieces of the body politic—call them media, call them press, these are the hats of a journalist. These roles of the press remain today, and have remained as such since the inception of the profession. The speed, pressures…