The Villages, Florida…
Over the last two weeks I’ve been road-tripping through Florida. As I was driving homeward via the central part of the state, I decided to see the infamous “Villages,” described variously as having the highest...
Read MoreCategory: Modern culture
Walking away from the news..
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jan 29, 2022 | Modern culture, Notes, Search | 0 |
Somewhere in my distant past I disavowed consumer culture. Pretty easy. I wasn’t into material things anyway. Later, I left behind a lot of what passes for food today. Since our affinities for salt, sugar and fat are...
Read MoreI was talking to a friend about choices…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jan 5, 2022 | Admin, Contentment, Happiness, Modern culture, Notes, Search, Self-image | 0 |
…specifically, how modern commerce and Madison Avenue have assured that we have too many. That’s not their intent. They just want to sell, and pseudo-innovation is a company’s way of competing, albeit a questionable...
Read MoreAnger as an innate need?
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 28, 2021 | Human Nature, Modern culture, Notes, Society | 2 |
Traveling up in the (more liberal) north from Tennessee during this Covid thing, I’m struck by how the general population wears masks so matter-of-factly. It seems the majority here (in Bangor, at least) have just accepted...
Read MoreTo everything a season…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Sep 18, 2021 | Blog, Death, Modern culture, Notes, Society | 1 |
For a few days on my current road trip, I stayed in the house of a friend in DC while she was away. It was an older house, born in the early fifties, same as me. The upkeep had been gradually overwhelming her…yard...
Read MoreWilkes-Barre, PA – reflecting on destruction
Posted 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 MoreI think what we lack today is immediacy….
Posted by Bob Adamcik | May 12, 2021 | Contentment, Happiness, Human Nature, Meaning, Modern culture, Society | 0 |
…in our lives, our day-by-day and hour-by-hour lives. In our aboriginal existence, we were like our fellow animals, always on the watch…against hunger, predators, toxic insects or plants, unfriendly tribes. Who had...
Read MoreDoers, watchers and wonderers….
Posted 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 MoreThere are certain traits…
Posted 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 MoreChange and blissful ignorance…
Posted 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 MoreOur Philip, who art in Britain…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Mar 3, 2019 | Belief, Human Nature, Meaning, Modern culture, Notes, Religion, Search | 0 |
My last post reminded me of something I stumbled on last year. A group of villagers on the island of Tanna in the South Pacific believe Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, is a divine being. This Prince Philip Movement is only...
Read MoreNote From Fátima…
Posted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 29, 2018 | Belief, Human Nature, Modern culture, Notes, Religion, Search, Society, Tribalism | 0 |
In Fátima, Portugal, two days now, and thinking again about religion and humanity. Indeed, one cannot help but do so here, where the entire town has evolved into a living irony, an immersive experience to the selling of...
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