tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post1165974397555994491..comments2023-10-11T02:43:45.437-07:00Comments on CASAMURPHY: Writers I Run With and IntoLaynehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11202742050661813668noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post-89826960595125670052007-12-17T20:00:00.000-08:002007-12-17T20:00:00.000-08:00Clueless = the cloud of unknowing, eh? Although I...Clueless = the cloud of unknowing, eh? Although I do see Ms. Silverstone holding forth in fifth period geometry. She said: “I think there’s a huge crisis of belonging in postmodern culture. The institutions of religion have really diminished and fallen into the hands of frightened functionaries who are great custodians of the gateways but don’t really know what the landscapes are like further in towards the heart of the mystery. Politics has become synonymous with economics and the crudest form of pragmatism. Then there’s the whole homogenization of culture and consciousness in mass technology and media — although there’s a lot more interaction than there once was between people, but it’s all simulated, you know, and lacks the vitality and vigor and danger of a direct encounter with otherness. So these are some of the contexts which are creating a massive spiritual hunger.”harryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15094676660514962306noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6550315839527219940.post-13948989687937561702007-12-17T16:14:00.000-08:002007-12-17T16:14:00.000-08:00Add me to your clueless list, after a weekend full...Add me to your clueless list, after a weekend full of grading student research papers, so I have too been among long the clueless I teach and the clueless I am teaching them as if to write-- all in a mere ten weeks. Get some down time in your newly colossal kitchen. xxx meJohn L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"https://www.blogger.com/profile/16616876266772470719noreply@blogger.com