History is Events, People, Places, and Themes. That seems clear enough to most readers of history. What is less obvious and often missed is the meaning of Events, People, Places, and Themes, and thus the meaning of history. Many feel that in just mapping such elements and knowing where things fit chronologically, we have history. Nothing could be further from the truth. In such an outlook we have not really discovered history.
ID 31478396 © Iqoncept | Dreamstime.com There is a fundamental problem of the advertising and public relations industry. It is a problem that leads to persons switching off at the very moment that the message might be vital. The players play on cheap slogans,...
ID 144151396 © Agsandrew | Dreamstime.com “…social theorists averted the previously dedicated gaze on a Spirit that moves amongst us in mysterious ways, and sought to shift our attention from a universalizing cosmology to a globalizing horizon where humans make...
ID 144151396 © Agsandrew | Dreamstime.com I know I am a romantic, but a romantic invested in realism. It is probably not as unusual as assumed. I make a claim for reality and I understand that such a claim is far too romantic. We grasp for what we individually want...
ID 9805130 © Chelovek | Dreamstime.com It is a big news day. As I write this blog, the Impeachment Vote is being carried out in the United States House of Representatives. It is a radical action; an action that seeks the root intention of the American constitutional...
Here is a graph where a person can map their own beliefs on questions of mind-brain, and map the positioning of other thinkers across the past-present-future continuum. The movement from left to right are possibilities of belief from an unquestioning...
The meaning of history is entangled in the inherited orthodoxies of childhood, along with pathways which better and creative thinkers search out. The conventional and dull thinker will dwell in the security of old dogmas. Most believers do not wander far from home,...
