Participation In Happenings
Sunday, November 30th, 2008 Posted in Participation | No Comments »If we order any happening by the amount and kind of participation of those involved we get a simple model for a very large number of concrete sequences. There is the event and the four ways we relate to it. (1) ...
Rumor and Experience
Monday, November 24th, 2008 Posted in Concrete incident or process | No Comments »Each life is unique. What is sensed and done by each of us can not be replicated in time or space. The individual makes and lives in his own universe. We can think of this as another pattern against which ...
Jury Duty–One
Friday, November 21st, 2008 Posted in Jury Duty | No Comments »The American jury is a small group. A limited number of people, in the range of six to twelve in number, are brought together and asked to make a joint unanimous decision. A crime has been committed and a defendant ...
Lobbying Against Lobbying
Monday, November 17th, 2008 Posted in Lobbying | No Comments »To lobby: Grab the legislator passing through the foyer on his way to the meeting hall where he is to vote and entreat him to vote in a way that you favor. More generally, one advocates to another for a ...
When Politics Overtakes the Child
Thursday, November 13th, 2008 Posted in Social Dilemmas, Children | No Comments »The Elian Gonzalez case of 2000 might be familiar. U.S. agents retrieved by force a six year old Cuban boy from a great uncle in Miami and returned him to his father, a Cuban national. Father and son, after other ...
Varieties of Absence
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008 Posted in Concrete incident or process | No Comments »Separation anxiety is a stark experience that the infant can not avoid. His nursing mother away at work is no longer present for him. His language undeveloped and with no sense of the future, he exists only in the immediate ...