Let Me Get This Straight! My Sociological Understanding of the Socio-Economic Crisis of September-October 2008.
Sunday, October 5th, 2008 Posted in Cadre, Money, Sub-Prime Crisis | No Comments »The concrete event is the on-going now. It is opposed to the model which is abstracted from it. We have the thing itself against our conception of it. When I try to grasp this economic crisis we are in I ...
You Do Not Have to Know That Saddam Hussein is Dead to Be President of The United States
Monday, September 29th, 2008 Posted in The People, Cadre | No Comments »A few random notes after watching an election debate of candidates on television. ^^^^^ There are three tests for president of the USA. Only those who meet these are qualified to enter this office. A person is made eligible by age (at ...
The Top Dollar Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Cadre, Cadre Functions, Money | No Comments »CEO is after all just another job. "And what do you do, Chum?" "I'm a CEO, Buster. Is that a problem for you?" "Absolutely not. It takes all kinds. Doesn't it?" A person doing a job of work and critics worry that his wages, ...
Cool It.
Sunday, July 6th, 2008 Posted in Cadre, Invention, Global Warming, Mass Movements | No Comments »We want to stop and reverse the global warming trend. Our knowledge is limited, there is a risk with any decision, but our scientists, on strong evidence, support this way. The politics of freeing ourselves from the threats of the ...
Benign Mass Movement Ready to Go
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 Posted in Concepts, Cadre, Cadre Functions, Global Warming, Mass Movements | No Comments »Mass movement: The parallel acceptance of a concept by numerous persons as a basis for action. For example: (1) When we link tobacco with cancer we give up tobacco. (2) A military attack on a city and ...
Buddy Wins
Sunday, May 11th, 2008 Posted in Cadre, Cadre Functions, Culture | No Comments »Early on we discovered a board game called Trouble that we all loved. Billy was 8 and Buddy was 4 then. My wife and I and the kids would sit on the floor around the decorated cardboard with three ...
Mass Observation
Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in The People, Cadre, Cadre Functions | No Comments »Life is a 24/7 proposition. To imagine all of us worldwide concurrently acting is staggering. And over time, one day after another up to one century after another and more, to register and record the entire shebang of ...
On the Edge of a High Place.
Thursday, March 27th, 2008 Posted in Cadre, Alternate Worlds, Prostitution, Concrete incident or process, Anti-Experiment | No Comments »In the movie "A Man for All Seasons" an historical event is transformed into a dramatic narrative. Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) engages in a political disagreement with King Henry VIII of England (1491-1547) over divorce and ...
The Cadre-Group Nexus
Monday, October 29th, 2007 Posted in Group, Cadre, Cadre Functions | No Comments »The group does not act. It only exhibits the summary pattern of the actions of its member-agents. In some part this pattern follows intention, and this intention is in the planning, decision, mobilization, coordination, and evaluation that we ...
Cadre Down, Autonomous Group Up
Saturday, October 27th, 2007 Posted in Group, Cadre, Cadre Functions | No Comments »Consider the ubiquity of the cadre function. It includes all activities and processes that contribute to a group's unity in action. Can think of it as the forms of governance: (1) legislative: what to do and how to do ...