It seems in the internet age that propaganda has been completely democratized, and is no longer completely in the preview of government agencies and secret extra-governmental conspiracies.
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Category Archives: Phism of the Day
Perception, Psychology, & Evolution
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Perception flows from interior to exterior regions of the brain, from evolutionarily oldest to newest.
An unidentifiable perception flows first through the startle reaction of fear and flight, then the emotive, superstitious and paranormal explanation before finally, when enough data has been collected, to fit to our rational understanding of nature.
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Reflection on Henri Bergson
Intuition is the realization before thinking.
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Inclusion
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How many other person’s visions of the future are you willing to close off to realize your own?
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BLADERUNNER
Looking back,visions of the future do seem to belong to a certain age.
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THE INTEGRAL
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Only individuals operate at the cusp of their human development.
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INSTITUTIONS
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This is the nature of institutions: they operate no higher than the root mean square of the moral, ethical, and legal development of their operators.
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Phism of the Day – A quick byte on FaceBook crosstalk – Mircea Eliade the sacred and the profane
Phism of the Day, Phi takes the credit but Wygart writes the words
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There was some crosstalk between the Phism of the Day feature of this blog and my FaceBook page, where I typically repost them for some added exposure.
Crosstalk [electronics]
In electronics crosstalk is any phenomenon by which a signal transmitted on one circuit or channel creates an undesireable effect in another circuit or channel.†
In our case crosstalk is always good! Today’s Phism of the Day was:
ILLUMINATION
To attain enlightenment is to consciously banish profane space and time permanently by sacralizing your world.
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In response, a FaceBook friend asked the following two questions. “Please define ‘profane’ and ‘sacred’ in one sentence for each,” and “Oh, and heck, define ‘your world’ as opposed to ‘others’ world.’ Where does your space stop and theirs begin? (Isn’t that fun?)”
A Froward Child
- Strange visions… ‘Ghost of a Flea’ by William Blake
On the home front this week I’ve been getting a lot of grief over the overly idealistic positions I take on a number of topics – in other words I’m found to be wrong, or in denial by my family and friends. So, I find myself in the very uncomfortable position of either having a very strong disagreement with friends and family – or – to shut up and sit on my hands on certain topics. – [Dr. Laura Schlessinger used to call this, ‘shutting up and being polite’]
Fortunately Michael Quinion of World Wide Words, [also a triple W – gotta love it, it alliterates] my go to guy for all things philological, has rescued me in my extemis, by providing me with just the right word to understand my predicament, I’m being froward [apparently].
Phism of the Day
There is a feature to this blog which you may have been overlooked until now because of its location at the top of the sidebar which is:
The Phism of the Day
That it is meant to be a daily feature obviously, but what exactly is a ‘Phism’ and why should anyone care?
Our buddy Phi, who you have not been subjected to yet on this blog, a rather mercurial and elusive creature who fancies himself a bit of a poet, has taken over the function of editing William’s collection of aphorisms. It’s a long story and you needn’t worry about it until Phi Press gets closer to publishing the miniature book of a collection of said aphorisms.
Phi, wise in his own self-serving little way, suggested that the upcoming book be called Phi’s Little Book of Words because no one would ever read [much less purchase] a book called William’s Little Book of Words [ what William proposed]. In this case everyone was forced to agreed that Phi had it right and was perceiving reality more clearly than anyone – even William. Phi, sly creature that he is, then suggested a combining the two ideas together, Phi + Aphorism = Phism a much catchier tag. Since we are also all about linguistic boundary dissolution around here we all had to agree it was much the catchier name as well.
And why should anyone care? We haven’t worked that out yet, but maybe you have some ideas yourself that you can suggest in the Comments.
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