In fact, I wondered about it when I was younger: have I embedded an invisible emotional fortress? Neville Wran once attracted headlines in Australia when, as Premier of NSW, he declared of his birth suburb:
“Balmain boys don’t cry.”
That got me thinking – is this a gender thing? Am I ‘normal’ or am I protecting the formative elements of my identity – dark secrets protected by my terror of revelation…
In my last post, I struggled to discover some commonality in the way both Alexander’s Discovery and Surveillance Capitalism succeed in remaining hidden as an obvious explanation of so much unnecessary suffering…
In 1964, an international group of scientists travelled to Galapagos Islands to put together an information-gathering experiment on turtles. Leading the expedition was Professor R. Stuart MacKay - an expert on the evolving technology of telemetry.
The turtle swallowed a tiny telemetry device – the device then sent information about the turtle’s movements to a computer located in another part of the world. Henceforth:
“More than six hundred years ago, the printing press put the written word into the hands of ordinary people, rescuing the prayers, bypassing the priesthood, and delivering the opportunity for spiritual communion directly into the hands of the prayerful. We have come to take for granted that the internet enables an unparalleled diffusion of information, promising more knowledge for more people: a mighty democratizing force that exponentially realizes Gutenberg’s revolution in the lives of billions of individuals.
I concluded a long time ago that Alexander’s Discovery is so simple and persuasive that it masters the remarkable ability to hide itself in plain view.
Leunig - a famous, iconic and loved Australian cartoonist - was just fired by The Age in Melbourne as part of the COVID-19 culture wars. The Age aspires to be Australia’s NYT – its action may seem to be the kind of timid reaction that boomers like my Self underline as a world gone crazy.
Who cries while reading a book about how to engineer a car?
I do.
I am reading “Power Play” by Tim Higgens, where he documents the rise of the first new automobile company since 1923 that could challenge the dinosaurs. Elon Musk succeeded. Tesla is now worth more than Toyota, GM & Ford combined.
