The WELL: inkwell.vue.203: Curtis White, THE MIDDLE MIND

#114: Teleological dyslexic (ceder) Sat 27 Dec 03 13:23

Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:23:00 PST

Thank you, Curtis, you have given us many insihgtful reflections. ;-) [Read entire topic]

#113: Clare Eder (ceder) Sat 27 Dec 03 13:21

Sat, 27 Dec 2003 13:21:00 PST

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#112: cew (constance22) Sat 27 Dec 03 06:04

Sat, 27 Dec 2003 06:04:00 PST

Those fleeing the corpo-krypto-media-mass-worldview now take refuge in internet freedom: but once it's recognized as a source for power, how long will that last?

Nice talking with you. Good luck. [Read entire topic]

#111: virtual community or butter? (bumbaugh) Fri 26 Dec 03 17:38

Fri, 26 Dec 2003 17:38:00 PST

Thanks, Curtis, for visiting with us here. Do hang around as long as you like.

Thanks, also, to all of you on- and off-Well who helped make this a valuable session in the Inkwell. [Read entire topic]

#110: Paul Terry Walhus (terry) Fri 26 Dec 03 10:21

Fri, 26 Dec 2003 10:21:00 PST

Best to you Curt! It's been too short and this has raised lots of questions and issues to explore. Thanks! [Read entire topic]

#109: Curtis White (curtiswhite) Fri 26 Dec 03 10:13

Fri, 26 Dec 2003 10:13:00 PST

This, friends, is to be my last official post. I'll check in on a weekly basis for a while till things get quiet. Too quiet (as they used to say in cowboy movies).

Constance: Nice to be in synch with someone every once in a while. Even if in this absurdly tech mediated format.

(I was working this morning and writing about how our relations with near everyone else is mediated in one way or another so that the world appears full of phantoms. Other people exist as if in parallel universes. We don't know how to make contact.

Do we need a medium? No! It was the medium and its message that got us into this situation. That and money. That's the other thing I was thinking about. How many of our relationships are mediated by money? Let's talk about wealth in those terms. I have a relationship with my students because I'm paid to do so. Etc.)

Yeah, the Hegel societies were very real. You might even be able to find out about them with a google search. some research has been done.

The eight second rule and its imaginable relationship to Sesame Street is really provocative. It's the sort of thing that even if it's not true is so rich that you run with it anyway just to see where it goes.

You see, in the end you've been talking to a novelist.

Best to you all. Curt [Read entire topic]

#108: C.E. Wilkinson (constance22) Thu 25 Dec 03 08:28

Thu, 25 Dec 2003 08:28:00 PST

Variances in time-length of information presented is one thing; paucity of veracity in the information offered is quite another, and is, I think, what helps support the dumbing down of America. [Read entire topic]

#107: Angie Coiro (coiro) Wed 24 Dec 03 17:14

Wed, 24 Dec 2003 17:14:00 PST

True enough. But coincident occurence doesn't prove cause/effect. [Read entire topic]

#106: Theodore C Newcomb (nukem777) Wed 24 Dec 03 16:59

Wed, 24 Dec 2003 16:59:00 PST

Re: attention spans

There have been plenty of studies to show that our children, who grew up in the PBS Sesame street format, have a radically different attention span than those of us from the 'old school'. They are used to having input at about a 8 second framework, as Sesame Street introduced something new at about that rate. Thus the 8 second rule for a web page to load. [Read entire topic]

#105: cew (constance22) Wed 24 Dec 03 12:20

Wed, 24 Dec 2003 12:20:00 PST

There is a real lust for dumbing-down in the Brave New Clear Channel Universe. Compare your basic US network newscast with one from Europe: there's a wealth of topics and facts available to them everyday cheese-eating surrender monkeys and their ilk that Americans aren't ever exposed to.

Not to mention the Iraq War Actual Facts Blackout, where a massive percentage of the US populace is operating under a cultural chador of totally wrong impressions. Which is impressive. [Read entire topic]