Category: The Vesica Nervous
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An Open Letter To The “Honorable” James David Vance
An Open Letter To The “Honorable” James David Vance
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The Semantic Hostility Of MAGA
“Again” highlights toxic nostalgia, urging a false greatness that never existed. America’s foundation is marred by genocide and slavery, with “great” being a subjective and distorted lens. Instead of regressing to an illusory past, the focus should be on striving for a “more perfect union” where justice prevails for all.
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Awash in Wonder
To be awake is to be awash in WONDERNobody can take away wonderIt’s the last tie in many cases to that oceanic stateI can barely remember when all was aweBut when I remember, I’m freeAnd sometimes the memory only flickers in the back of my mindA spliced frame quick subliminalSUBLIME in all its wonder.…
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The Gulf of Critical Thinking
Billionaires are robbing us blind while we’re stuck on infinite scroll. In my classroom, I see a worrying trend of reluctant compliance over curiosity. Are nefarious forces benefiting from this lack of engagement? #PoliticalEconomyofEducation #RethinkEducation
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“I’m Afraid”
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America’s Great Leap Forward?
When I teach Global History, we do a unit on Mao’s China. Mao’s vicious incompetence led to the deaths of some 22 million people (at the lowest estimate). He turned the Republic of China (a somewhat democratic state established by Sun Yat-sen) into “The People’s Republic of China,” which is ironically named (footnote here about…
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My Reality is Running Thin
When everything means anything nothing means everything and everything means nothing.
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When Yeats Wrote “The Second Coming”
I wonder if he was really aiming to capture the horrific terror of a civilization swallowing a trauma that will pass through the digestive, nervous, endocrine, and healthcare systems of generations to come (and they keep on coming)… That “face as pitiless as the sun…” gazing outward before slouching toward some vexing cradle… (I don’t…
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Love In The Time Of Maga
This is the great work of love. This is the work that I am here for. Those of you who read these words, I genuinely thank you. You are watching me do this work in real time.
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The A(DHD)symptotic Mind
“Sometimes the simplest tasks in my life can be asymptotic. ZeStroh’s Paradox is the variation of Xeno’s Paradox where the task, the simple task of putting the plate into the dishwasher breaks down like a fractal into molecular steps, atomic intricacies, nuclear nodules, protean particulars, electronic elements, and quarky points. Frozen it’s easier to put…