April 2025. I wrote this website during the Biden presidency; I stopped working on it in early 2024. My personal attitude about a number of things has humbled in the interim. Neither I did imagine the ever worsening troubles of the new Trump presidency, which is making what I wrote about political issues here ever more out-of-date. (more)
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Footnotes
- ↑ Previous education: I graduated from Yale College in 1968, Summa cum Laude → as I describe it: by avoidance. I avoided every course that I thought I might get a bad grade in or which had a long reading list. I also graduated: idiot, because, as a person without preexisting social connections, I did not take advantage of the opportunity to make some. But that is not quite accurate: I was not even aware that I should or could make connections, or perhaps even what connections are. I was always afraid of the "Or else!" of getting a bad grade, so I did little other than study. I now wish I had tried to get into Scroll and Key, which would have made me a secret society colleague of Fareed Zacharia. Fool, me!
- ↑ What is being a computer programmer worker or just doing computer programming apart from working like? I've never tried to build a ship model in a bottle but I think it is something that trying to do it would make me want me to smash the whole goddamned thing and that's what computer programming or writing MediaWiki pages, etc. often feels like to me. It's claustrophobic. And here is the bitterest joke of all on me (BMcC[18-11-46-503]): As a young person I got into doing it because I thought it would be pure reason and logic raised high above material things. Ha! Ha!
- ↑ "In loco parentis" translates to: parents are insane. See also: St. Paul's Illiberal Day Carcel for Pubescent Male Virgins except-for-omerta-sanitary-services-for-jocks.
- ↑ Let me give credit to techies where credit is due: In Septenber 2020, it has been over 20 years since HTML 4.01 became a standard in December 1999. I like HTML 4.01 because it gave me the power to produce elegant web pages, but also techno-naive grandmothers could use it to make webpages of their grandchildren to share with their old biddie friends. Current web browsers still render HTML 4.01/3.2 correctly. Most techies never honored SGML. But at least techno-lefties (of whatever political persuasion, including new-feudalism in AI/VR space) still have not yet exterminated HTML 4.01/3.2 in their march to obscurantist new-release topia. If I could afford it, I'd drink a toast of Green Chartreuse V.E.P. to that (and in that way they might learn that such a thing exists)!
- ↑ A higher education 3 R's: Research recovers the repressed.
- ↑ Salvatore Ferragamo (fashion house) advertising slogan.
- ↑ I use this name for the virus on purpose because an ActiFist excoriated me that it is a "racist slur" and that I was being "insensitive" to a world class PhD+MD virologist of Asian ethnicity. I tried to explain that it was understandable that persons who are not epidemiologically educated could call a virus that came from Wuhan China "the China virus" and mean no harm. When I asked about lyme disease the ActiFist enlightened me that persons from Lyme Connecticut are not objects of racist violence on account of their geography. I said that if a racist called Covid-19 the "X" virus they would still be a racist. The ActiFist was not swayed in his obvious support of freedom of speech in a free society. It's a China virus, and those are only words, not weapons – except, of course, if spoken by a racist, or to an ActiFist. I perceived the ActiFist as being insensitive, and perhaps even threatening me.
- ↑ Hermann Broch: "Raised high above the clamour of the non-existent."
- ↑ I (BMcC[18-11-46-503]) very much like the structure I cooked up for this table. MediaWiki's built-in table functionality had problems (to be expected from MediaWiki, of course). Click here to see model.
- ↑ Ethically, this means: If I do not care about what matters to you then I have no reason to expect you to care about what matters to me. If you do not care about what matters to me then you have no reason to expect me to care about what matters to you.. Unless all lives matter, those persons who are not part of the subset of lives that do matter are thereby put on notice that they do not matter. They have been warned to look out for themselves, for the persons who think they themselves do matter will, at best, not look out for them, and said persons further may deem it appropriate exploit them, qua objects, for their benefit.
- ↑ Heidegger: "What endures in thinking is the process of thinking." Thinking [dialog, whether talking with others, or just: "self-talk"] itself is the bedrock reality. Any attempt to get "under" it is just part/more of it → ∴ Cultivate it, reflect on it, nurture it, because it's all you've really got.
- ↑ Richard Sugarman and Roger Duncan, "The promise of phenomenology", p.ix. I (BMcC[18-11-46-503]) would argue that the essence of metaphysics is dialog, also.
- ↑ I think we can be more precise here: I am a failed life in a failed social surround which failed to childrear me in a constructive way and failed to connect me with any persons who could have been constructive for my living. They should have been like a redirect in a computer file directory.
When John F. Kennedy was assassinated, I was in math class. I felt nothing about what was going on, and while everybody else in the school rushed to the chapel where a television set was presumably running, I stayed in the painted cinderblock walled classroom where the event had disrupted math class and I was mainly attentive of the room's painted cinderblock walls. "My country" had done nothing for me; it did not dawn on me to think of doing anything for "my country" because I had not learned that anybody or anything could do anything for me – I was vaguely aware of hurting, which is a bio-neurological reaction. But even being hurt was something I had not been given the proper categorial apparatus to thematically constitute. A kind of negation of the Kantian a priori structure of experience. I just vaguely wished "them" to go away. I did not have the awareness to THINK: "I wish these people would stop hurting me but I dare not say anything to them because they have power to hurt me and they will only hurt me more if I do anything that annoys them". I did not wish President Kennedy had beem assassinated nor would I have cared had he survived and fully recoveres: The assassination was a rare time when none of them: the ever-present Or else!ers, had not been around telling me what to do. Eppur si muove." - ↑ Also note, in case it is not obvious, that my (BMcC[18-11-46-503]) webpages contain a lot of what in movies and computer applications are called "Easter eggs".
- ↑ In my now 74 years of life, I have often found that "change" is a euphemism for: We persons in power are going to take away from you something you like but we don't care about [you] and give you trouble. I am heartily in favor of change that builds on what I value to add new value to it, and/or takes away something/someone that gives me trouble.
- ↑ Haircutting: a structure of social coercion to make me turn against my own body and be complicit subjugating it (and by extension, my—self...) to an occupying power: the people who have power againt me, the Them. Chemical underarm deodorants ditto. Pledges of allegiance to a: the Them. Passum sub iugum.
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