I support local businesses. I appreciate them. I want them to do well. This is particularly important in central Georgia. However, when a local business is not deserving of my business, I will not go back. I might even post a review online. I recently did this for a local computer store. I feel the [...]
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Satan and Tech
The L.A. Times posted a review of Norman Mailer’s new book with Mike Lennon, On God: An Uncommon Conversation: Mailer’s new book, “On God: An Uncommon Conversation,” may best be read in such a context — although, in truth, it’s probably best not read at all. Framed as a series of Socratic dialogues between Mailer [...]
Hey, What About Truth and Beauty? (Or, Technology and the Creative Artist Wrap Up, Part 1)
I began this semester by asking the question “what is art”? After a discussion that suggested art was anything from an escape to humanity’s finest achievement, we, perhaps artificially, narrowed our definition to state that art is always: critical, penetrating, challenging, engaging public: influential, inspiring, controversial historically positioned: technologically positioned/determined imaginative narrative mimetic: mirrors the [...]