Posted by Bob Adamcik | Jan 22, 2025 | Human Nature, Notes, Other people, Self-image, Society, Values | 0 |
A few days ago, I watched a YouTube short by Jordan Petersen about how we use power and wealth in our interactions with other people. It resonated with me because I encounter his example in my own behavior all too often,...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jan 15, 2025 | Belief, History, Human Nature, Meaning, Religion, Society | 0 |
Reflections on reading Bill Moyer’s interviews of Joseph Campbell in “The Power of Myth:” We see ourselves today as external to nature, just as we see ourselves as external to religion. We think we can just...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jul 11, 2022 | Expectations, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Society, The self | 6 |
So, I’m at a huge sidewalk art fair in downtown Madison, Wisconsin…many blocks long, booths down both sides of wide, closed streets circling the capitol building. I’m walking and walking, looking at art and...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 25, 2022 | Human Nature, Notes, Society, Tribalism | 0 |
For the last six months I’ve been watching a Great Courses overview of ancient civilizations. Forty-eight episodes covering all early development, from Mesopotamia to Egypt and the Chinese, Greece and Rome, to Mesoamerica...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Apr 10, 2022 | Class, Modern culture, Notes, Politics, Society, Values | 0 |
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 MorePosted 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 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 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 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 | 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 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 | Oct 5, 2020 | Happiness, identity, Notes, Self-image, Society | 0 |
…I would want to teach them two thIngs. First, I would want them to find out who they are and to be that person, to act always in ways congruent with that person, regardless of pressures of temptations to do otherwise. And...
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