Each glance that we take at the past offers us aclearer view of the future’
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- Feb 2026
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And the ability todress the old in perfect beauty is a sacred ability – this is how a nation declares itshighest aims in life’
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he figure of the hero allows the nation to take from the past what it needsto become confident and progressive in the future
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- Aug 2021
- Jul 2017
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There’s always a danger in nostalgia, when one invents a romanticized past
Another core point from my "all but" dissertation: these narratives of change often (always?) depend on nostalgia for a something that never really existed, but is retroactively projected backward.
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what if, to borrow from Ian Bogost, “progressive education technology” – the work of Seymour Papert, for example – was a historical aberration, an accident between broadcast models, not an ideal that was won then lost?
Ian's point hearkens back to a (not very original) core point from my "all but" dissertation: that there is a pattern where new practices and technologies are first enjoyed in an early "organic" state, where a wide variety of uses happen, but then are often (always?) reshaped by dominant forces (eg, capitalism) to focus on narrower use. A classic example is the cacophonic early days of radio and the subsequent assertion of control over the radio spectrum by government, the military, and commerce.
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- Jan 2017
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The church is made up of imperfect pilgrims on a long, difficult journey, and O’Connor described them well
The pilgrim essential to the understanding of O'Connor
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