Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Switchyard For Trains Of Thought To sell your soul is the easiest thing in the world. That's what everybody does every hour of his life. If I asked you to keep your soul-  would you understand why that's much harder? Roark, Ayn Rand's The Fountainhead The Outer Courtyard, where pain is... where our ego selves play out their funny little dramas... Frank Sims in the 1970's

Gifts Of Gab For You! What we do, in English, and in the humanities more broadly, what we teach, what we celebrate and investigate, is human particularity. That is why we become obsessed with individual authors, why we savor specificities of phrasing, why we pounce upon and explore a single word. It’s why we value, above all, writers capable of telling many different stories, populated by many varieties of being, articulated in a kaleidoscope of styles. It’s why I, personally, have always been most fascinated by playwrights, from Aeschylus to August Wilson: Dialogue releases us from the monologues of one mind, clan, tradition. Death of an English major By Gary Taylor, Special to the Tampa Bay Times November 9, 2018

Men and War From the audio series, The World Owes You A Living #remembranceday

Not Chitchat Harnessing social oblique is a massive part of effective manipulative propaganda. C Cawley

Dissident Provocations Much of what Lind learned about Fourth Generation Warfare he cribbed from John Boyd, America's greatest strategist, who thought Sun Tzu was without error. Boyd posited there were 3 levels of conflict: Physical, Mental, and Moral. Moral is the highest. Moral dominates. Guerrilla war is moral conflict. You can conceptualize guerrilla war also as non-kinetic. Thus, the principles of guerrilla warfare can be used in kinetic and non-kinetic warfare. JAMES SCAMINACI III

Wiggle Room What is Imagination? ...First: it is the Combining Faculty. It brings together things, facts, ideas, conceptions, in new, original, endless, ever varying, Combinations. It seizes points in common, between subjects having no very apparent connexion, & hence seldom or never brought into juxtaposition. Ada Lovelace Thanks to Maria Popova

God-Given Devil's Dung Always treat language like a dangerous toy. Anselm Hollo