Nance Confer and I are playing with a new learning-is-the-universe type blog we've dubbed "Cocking a Snook!" [1] for reasons you can discern and snicker at if you like, when you visit. Here's the kind of thing starting to show up there; comments and eyeballs welcome, especially from Kitchen regulars. (Waving to Liza, sea, Lorraine and the guys --)
If culture changes like the Internet can actually change individual brains [2], those changes will in turn change institutions, or obsolesce the ones it can't --this morning I heard NPR guests discussing the extreme need for institutional change by Congress, the Supreme Court, etc. see if you can check it out on a podcast! [3]) As our population hits 300 million this month, each Senator represents 3 million of us. How well represented does that make you feel as an individual?
No WONDER government institutions are foundering and as individuals, we'lre mad as hell [4], not gonna take it any more. Mucho maladaptations that won't be helped just by changing the color scheme of the decor from red to blue, or back again . . .
And when I say institutional change, I mean overhaul if not revolution. Actual progress forward, not deck-chair dithering, and I mean all institutional aspects of life. Schooling and universities of course [5], but also everything from the Fourth Estate to business, government, parenting, marriage, travel, family, economy, you name it. . .
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