Category: K. PHILOSOPHY
LUDDITE LITERATURE
LUDDITE LITERATURE
I resisted the email, technology world that cropped up at the end of my coaching, teaching career.
We moved to the beach just before winter. I had never cut on my college issued computer. High school typing class was in 1956. Health issues, injuries, age, weather chipped away at my physicality.
I began to “hobby write “. Self-Publishing was possible and I waded in.
Any old person will tell you of the “nightmare of the new age”. Even now.
My seven “books” and 700 blog articles attest to one virtue–VOLUME. And while the process has been a retirement hobby, I haven’t changed my name to Shakes Parham.
Vanity has caused me to wonder “ is it any good ?”
In toto it is a jumbled mess. At 85 years and “ circling the drain “, finding out its worth is beyond me.
Here is a thought. With the galloping advances, will there be a way to edit out the good parts?
There are bigger questions:
Are there large numbers of people like me, who given self publishing, produced some unique period and worthwhile contributions?
- Will an advanced editing tool be developed to glean items of value from this plethora of effort from us Luddites ?
PRETTY BASIC QUESTION
Are we really going to let some one person who doesn’t believe in the law, singularly write the rules ( i.e. laws )
for college athletics in America ?
DIOGENES
AI Overview
The story of Diogenes and his cup is an anecdote about the Greek philosopher’s radical simplicity and self-sufficiency. While carrying a simple wooden bowl, he saw a boy drinking water directly from his cupped hands. Realizing the boy needed no extra tool, Diogenes threw his cup away, stating that a child had “beaten” him in living with less. This event became a symbol of the Cynic philosophy, which rejected material possessions in favor of a life lived in accordance with nature.
CHANGE THE PITCHER
WDBS (What did Bob say?)
Gentlemen, he said
I don’t need your organization, I’ve shined your shoes
I’ve moved your mountains and marked your cards
But Eden is burning, either brace yourself for elimination
Or else your hearts must have the courage for the changing of the guards
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An’ here I sit so patiently
Waiting to find out what price
You have to pay to get out of
Going through all these things twice
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I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You’d know what a drag it is to see you
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Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can’t shoot them anymore
That long black cloud is comin’ down
I feel I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door
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But to live outside the law, you must be honest
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Lookout kid, they keep it all hid.
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Gates of Eden
Bob Dylan ‧ 1965
There are no kings inside the Gates of Eden
ANOMIE
| noun | 1. Social instability resulting from a breakdown of standards and values. |
SPAM
The Full Monty–The Ides of March, 2026 )
PROLOGUE
DEAR MR./MS. “SPAM”,
You are in business. I am not. Everything I have written is free to all.
PLEASE QUIT CALLING ME.
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Two Links: 1. The Barton Project ( Earlier selected articles )
https://barton.libguides.com/ld.php?content_id=79836717
2. Subsequent Selected Articles:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K3qpwHvh4PtTWvhcDcCtVE2CuBBaJ8_JIWuX6fZelb0/edit?tab=t.0
https://littlegreenbookoftennis.com/2025/07/16/nexus/
TIME OUT !
CONSCIENCE ?
Do kids ever feel bad about killing villians in video games??
How about pushing the button when it’s real?
PTSD from knowing that school had 100 plus young girls in it?
MINNESOTA MURDERS?
VENEZUELLA GUYS FISHING ?
“EPSCAPADES” ?
Man in the Long Black Coat
Song by Bob Dylan ‧ 1989
Preacher was talking there’s a sermon he gave
He said every man’s conscience is vile and depraved
You cannot depend on it to be your guide
When it’s you who must keep it satisfied.
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Dylan again, from SENOR–( “….He said, “Son, this ain’t a dream no more, it’s the real thing”)
U.S. at Fault in Strike on School in Iran, Preliminary Inquiry Says (New York Times )
Striking a school full of children is sure to be recorded as one of the most devastating single military errors in recent decades. Iranian officials have said the death toll was at least 175 people, most of them children.
QUICK AS A HICCUP
From THE NEW YORK TIMES today
( On Artificial Inteligence )
How fast this is actually moving
Let me make the pace of improvement concrete, because I think this is the part that’s hardest to believe if you’re not watching it closely.
In 2022, AI couldn’t do basic arithmetic reliably. It would confidently tell you that 7 × 8 = 54.
By 2023, it could pass the bar exam.
The Little Green Book of Tennis 