"Mad" Miles
07-13-2010, 03:14 PM
I just read the following and enjoyed it. It refers to some hard truths that I learned in my early adulthood. Also, I had to look up "pothos (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pothos_(mythology)#Pothos)". Poets, you might enjoy his literary approach and his use of quotes from T.S. Eliot and Wendel Barry.
A Heap Of Broken Images: Social Media and the Architecture of Anomie (https://dissidentvoice.org/2010/07/a-heap-of-broken-images-social-media-and-the-architecture-of-anomie/)
by Phil Rockstroh / July 13th, 2010
In an age, when nature is besieged and the political landscape blighted, and one stands, stoop shouldered and wincing into the howling wasteland of epic-scale idiocy extant in the era, a solitary person can feel lost, marooned inside an increasingly isolated sense of self. Whether urban, suburban, or rural dwelling, the sense of alienation, for an individual, is profound … as discernible to the eye as the constellations of foreclosure signs stippling overgrown front lawns across the land … as hidden as the abandoned dreams within.
(Snip) Click on the title above for the rest. From Dissident Voice
A Heap Of Broken Images: Social Media and the Architecture of Anomie (https://dissidentvoice.org/2010/07/a-heap-of-broken-images-social-media-and-the-architecture-of-anomie/)
by Phil Rockstroh / July 13th, 2010
In an age, when nature is besieged and the political landscape blighted, and one stands, stoop shouldered and wincing into the howling wasteland of epic-scale idiocy extant in the era, a solitary person can feel lost, marooned inside an increasingly isolated sense of self. Whether urban, suburban, or rural dwelling, the sense of alienation, for an individual, is profound … as discernible to the eye as the constellations of foreclosure signs stippling overgrown front lawns across the land … as hidden as the abandoned dreams within.
(Snip) Click on the title above for the rest. From Dissident Voice