Modern visual and auditory electronic propaganda techniques utilizing black box AI (not artificial but advertising intelligence) algorithms to exploit consumers across a spectrum of digital devices (smart phones, laptops, notebooks, etc.) has given rise to what Harvard Business School Professor of Business Administration (emerita) Shoshana Zuboff identifies as surveillance capitalism, and defines: “1. A new […]
Here begins the first of seven elementary points about America’s current situation Money is not the way to improve the lot of humankind, society, or the nation-state; much less do God’s will on earth. Capital—currencies—money is not the way, certainly not “the preeminent way to do God’s will on earth;” and it is not the […]
(For Daniel C. Hall) This is an evocative poem about the complicated relationship between artist and audience. It uses images of marriage, Elizabethan bear-baiting, human mortality, New Testament parables of vineyards and the true vine. There is also an allusive reference to an image that must have made a deep impression on me as a […]
