EssayCast

Elon Musk in an interview with Joe Rogen smoked marijuana and revealed willful ignorance regarding his vision of the future. Stocks dipped afterwards as investors had their confidence shaken. That he got high was far less a problem than what he revealed about his poor understanding of science. I compare Musk to the fictional Hammond of Jurassic Park. I also share an imaginary radio show with Einstein and Orson Wells.

False notions of progress in the service of control through technology lead trajectories of destruction. Life as emergence as opposed to death made inevitable in an unhealthy adherence to the ideology of causality. The blurry line between machine and organic organism.

One party communication we know as meditation or thought. Two party is often a dialog or conversation. Civilization and writing come together and allow for a new medium to be the second party and the third party be the recipient of the new medium or second party. The great works and history of ideas are all third party communication, however, in the digital age, many have no other forms of communication and given this fact, people have become objects of manipulation by corporations and political entities.

An essay I wrote in 2010 describing the social trends toward isolation in the era of individualized entertainment pods as well a discussion of the current manipulation of social media by corporate and political oligarchs. As well a small discussion of Jaron Lanier's work on the blackbox representing the algorithms used to control behavior. A musical interlude with Chris Couling, JP Couling, and I on cello, classical guitar, and violin respectively.

As the world has become more concerned with the letter rather than the spirit of the law, litigiousness is favored above kindness. Benjamin Franklin's last speech written for the Constitutional Convention of 1787 remarks that the document as an instrument of government is only effective with good leadership and claims despotism befalls a corrupt people. The current president's recent impeachment is a consequence of the current zeitgeist that values rights over responsibility.

An exploration into the entrance of women into the once male dominated arena of urban skateboard society along and a discussion with Christ Mary Artist, aka, @prettiestmess_ Christie DeJesu.

Wall E is an animated film about a male robot who won't take 'no' from a female robot. I explore the deeper sadness surrounding the culture of cyber-stalking. Finally, I begin to address the horror of the relationship between silicon valley and wall street.

In this episode of EssayCast, I read an essay I wrote in 2012 on the issues emerging in relationships between fragmented parents and developing children.

Here I share an essay I wrote in 2005 about the nature of choice in an increasingly narrow existence given the rise of portable technology. Cole Porter sings as well. Hiawatha versus the modern person.

Essaycast 2, November 18, 2019. I read PLaCMaR, an essay about language, intimacy, etc.