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 MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Nov 4, 2019 | Contentment, Human Nature, identity, Meaning, Notes, Other people, Search, Significance, Society | 1 |
Two nights ago I had a dark and lonely dream. Vague now, but it centered on my father’s garden, an anchor of my childhood home. At the beginning of the dream, my family and I worked that garden…turning the soil,...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | May 6, 2019 | Belief, Human Nature, identity, Notes, Politics, Search, Society | 0 |
I pointedly avoid political content on this site. But the political environment of any era is fodder for a student of human motivation. And in today’s increasingly inflammatory scene, considering the drivers behind...
Read MorePosted 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...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Feb 9, 2018 | Contentment, Modern culture, Notes, Search, Society | 2 |
Around 2010, I saw the movie, “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps.” Having enjoyed it’s predecessor, I’d looked forward to the sequel. Big surprise, though: In the years since the 1987 release of “Wall Street,” cinematography had...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Dec 3, 2017 | Human Nature, Notes, Search, Society | 0 |
…is to allow the human spirit to flourish. All the while I am reading John Gray and his empirical argument that humans are nothing more than other animals, I am at odds with myself. On the one hand, I have to agree with...
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 | Sep 2, 2017 | Blog, Human Nature, Meaning, Notes, Significance, Society | 1 |
Remember Genesis 1:28? “…God blessed them and said to them, ‘Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Jun 28, 2017 | Book Review, Evil, Human Nature, Notes, Other people, Search, Society | 0 |
“When I tried day after day to do good and to relieve the suffering of my patients, I was myself. And when I let myself go and plunged into shameful activities, I was also myself. My scientific studies forced me to the...
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)...
Read MorePosted by Bob Adamcik | Nov 26, 2016 | Class, History, Human Nature, Notes, Society | 3 |
I’ve spent six years now traveling throughout Western Europe, also reading histories of western civilization…from earliest prehistory to modernity. I’ve but scratched the surface, I know…an adequate...
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