We now continue our May Day activities this really brilliant video with Eve Ensler. Watch it through to the very end and you will be truly glad. It comes from this very interesting site, TED.com — a bank of talks containing “ideas worth spreading.” Axé.
I dedicate this May Day to the workers of course, to Janequin, to Flora, and to children. It is the weekend, and I am singing that our camping trip is tomorrow. I am so excited, I can hardly wait! Axé.
In Reeducation one was not supposed to have personal power. I have a lot of it and the only way to have less is to self destruct in some manner, so I tried. I did not understand then that a lot of people do not have personal power and want power over other people instead. … More Sur le pouvoir
The post below is about ten days old and so much has happened since, and I am so over it all. Now the heat has almost arrived and I am going camping. Then I will enter my hermitage. The problem with my hermitage, of course, is that I am ultimately so sociable. But I am … More Into My Hermitage
I Yesterday was John Muir’s birthday. It was very beautiful and in fact peaceful, but I had written this post days earlier. It said that in order to achieve the peaceful state corresponding to John Muir I would have to articulate a list of the usual trades and traits of people I find exhausting — … More John Muir
I am now starting to call Reeducation R. The R Bar on Royal Street in New Orleans — see their very own descriptions of the rooms they rent — is a true alkie bar with a lovely pressed tin roof. Since Reeducation seems to have been an addictive substance, I find it fitting to call … More Important Reeducated Misinformation
Many of the posts in this weblog are about feeling stifled, imprisoned, and hemmed in by my professor job. The e-mailed question why did you remain, or have you remained imprisoned for so long? is a fair one. Side note on the source of this question: I must say I am fatigued by people with … More Pourquoi je ne suis pas encore partie
I truly dislike being projected into, and I like even less unsolicited, bad advice from people who have no qualification to give it. This is why I dislike Reeducated people. They very urgently want people like me to be quiet and I can literally feel them hitting me in the head, so I cannot think, … More Further Opposition to Faux Sages
1. This was originally a beautiful post, but it was eaten by Mozilla Firefox. I shall not attempt to reconstruct it. It was about how Reeducation was designed to engulf people in the “true feelings” of shame, fear, and self hatred. It connected this to the book I was trying to write in that period, and … More Fear Factor
I Most academic blogs appear to be by assistant professors, and many discuss in some detail the abusive behavior of senior faculty. I wish to emphasize that the behavior of many assistant professors is outrageous beyond belief. I made gaffes and I am sure you did, but mine, at least, are nothing like the outright … More Variations on a Theme, or, Repetition with a Difference
