Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jun 15, 2022 | History, Human Nature, Notes, Politics, War | 0 |
Russia’s unprovoked and ongoing invasion of Ukraine is a lesson on many levels. The innumerable interpretations by any number of experts, the news coverage of every slant, and the public reaction…all are informative...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 27, 2021 | History, Human Nature, Notes, Society | 2 |
Some two weeks under forest canopy and ocean fog on a current road trip through New England, a final three days of rain and mist and chill driving up the Maine coast…and despite the primordial beauty, I’m thinking,...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 12, 2021 | Change, History, Modern culture, Notes, Science, Society | 3 |
When I was 20, late summer and fall of 1972, I worked for a contractor setting up mobile homes in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Hurricane Agnes had enticed the Susquehanna River to overflow its banks the night of June 23rd,...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 28, 2021 | Creativity, History, Human Nature, Modern culture, Notes, Society | 0 |
I’m reminded of the “three kinds of people” adage: some make things happen, some watch them happen, and some wonder what happened. The “makers of happenings,” stand apart. They have a spark, a...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 29, 2020 | Change, History, Human Nature, Modern culture, Notes, Politics, Society | 0 |
…that humans have evidenced in every society and civilization since we came down from trees: tribalism; otherism; xenophobia; social hierarchy; gender distinctions; religion; violence; mob psychology; group conformity;...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 14, 2020 | Evil, History, Human Nature, Notes, Politics, Search, War | 0 |
In the course of watching Ken Burns documentary on the Vietnam War, I learned something I still find difficult to believe. On the eve of the 1968 elections, Lyndon Johnson was furiously pushing through peace talks to end the...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 8, 2020 | History, Human Nature, Notes, Politics, Search, Society | 0 |
That title…a saying we often use when living through what seems to be a tumultuous event. And yet, only a few souls really appreciate what that means. We think of something that “will go down in the history books,” that...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 15, 2020 | Change, History, Modern culture, Notes, Search, Society | 0 |
Last night I watched a documentary covering the early years of the Newport Folk Festival, 1964-66: The great folk performers of the late fifties and early sixties and the thousands of young people who listened to them. A half...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Nov 11, 2019 | Death, History, Human Nature, Meaning, Mortality, Notes, Significance | 2 |
I read of the recent discovery of a Bronze Age battlefield in northeastern Germany, in a narrow valley of the Tollense River. Meeting at the site of an ancient bridge, hundreds or even thousands of men fought and killed one...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Oct 16, 2017 | History, Human Nature, Notes, Search, Society | 2 |
I once heard author Jared Diamond speak about his book “Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed.” As he was addressing Easter Island, a once forested isle that was eventually denuded by its inhabitants...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jul 19, 2017 | Belief, Book Review, History, Notes, Religion, Search | 0 |
I’ve long wondered about gnostics and gnosticism, an early rival movement to Orthodox Christianity. Numerous passages in the New Testament epistles refer to it obliquely (and condemn it harshly). So I sought out...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 17, 2017 | Book Review, History, Notes, Search, Society | 0 |
“We have advanced from canoes to galleys to steam ships to space shuttles—but nobody knows where we’re going.” — Yuval Noah Harari (From Animals Into Gods: A Brief History of Humankind, draft edition 2012)...
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