Month: July 2021

• The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief

  I don’t know what to think of laughter anymore. I used to be happy with it solving so many issues, soothing so many cuts, but now I wonder whether it was only me all along just applying patches to the wounds. It would seem that humour is no laughing matter -or, rather, it’s the laughter […]

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  July 28, 2021

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  Aeon.co, Emily Herring, Freud, Henri Bergson, humour and emotions, humour as incongruity, humour as repression, humour as superiority, incongruity, Ingvild Selid Gilhus, Laughing Gods weeping virgins, Laughter, laughter for social bonding, Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, medieval religions, parades, The Feast of Fools, theories of humour, University of Bergen, University of Ghent

• Neither here nor there

  I don’t think I’m very good at handling conflicts -I hate confrontation; I prefer the view from the top of the Bell Curve where I can safely watch the goings-on of the extremophiles in their respective antipodes. I suppose that’s why I gravitate to boundaries where, if I’m careful, I’m neither here nor there. This […]

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  July 21, 2021

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  Aeon.co, categories, Covid, face masks, history, in-groups, Marek Kohn, out-groups, pandemic, physical-distancing, The Lord of the Flies, them, us, victors, virus

• You Don’t Say?

  It’s hard to be upset by something you don’t know about. It’s hard to be offended if you don’t know you’ve been insulted. And, if somebody has to point out that you really have, then have you? For insults, snubs, or even rudeness to be effective, they need to be understood as such. I think […]

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  July 14, 2021

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  Aeon.co, benevolent sexism, hypocognition, Kaidi Wu, micro aggression, sexism, shoeburyness, University of Michigan

• Is Lateral a Direction?

  Damn! There they go again, pulling the masks off the faces of those of us who grew up hoping we were uniquely creative; those of us who eschewed the logical pathway of thoughts and instead stepped off the trail to see if anything was hiding in the bushes. That’s what we lateral thinkers like to […]

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  July 7, 2021

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  ‘The Use of Lateral Thinking’, Aeon.co, Age, answers, Antonio Melechi, Edward de Bono, Gestalt psychology, Henri Poincaré, lateral thinking, Max Wertheimer, pseudoscience, questions, University of York, William James