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Culture Archives — Goodman Speaks https://goodmanspeaks.com/category/culture/ ON MATTERS OF DUBIOUS INTEREST Sat, 04 May 2024 14:13:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 163473000 Doing Time as a Protestor https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/05/04/doing-time-as-a-protestor/personal/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/05/04/doing-time-as-a-protestor/personal/#comments Sat, 04 May 2024 14:13:08 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2523 It’s not really déjà vu because the Vietnam era was different. But this week’s massive protests over Gaza on more than 30 campuses brought back heavy memories, mostly illustrating how the principles of protest have changed. I got involved in these early-‘60s protests against the war at the University of Wisconsin in Madison. I was …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/05/04/doing-time-as-a-protestor/personal/feed/ 4 2523 Life in 2025 https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/05/life-in-2025/politics/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/05/life-in-2025/politics/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2024 14:46:47 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2480 When Trump was reelected last year, his supporters finally came to their senses, except for the true cultists, of course. The common folk began to realize they needed to divorce themselves from all their former misconceptions of power and control. MAGA was no longer a political fantasy or, as some would call it, a delusion. …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/04/05/life-in-2025/politics/feed/ 2 2480 We Got Water https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/30/we-got-water/energy/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/30/we-got-water/energy/#respond Sat, 30 Mar 2024 14:42:58 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2472 It came at night while the town was sleeping, and the noise of the cisterns filling, unheard by most, gave way to shouts of surprise and pleasure in the morning as the citizens realized their good fortune. “At last,” cried Jeannine. “I thought the pinche Servicios de Agua had abandoned us.” The water shortage produced …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/30/we-got-water/energy/feed/ 0 2472 Gas Explosion in the Media https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/27/gas-explosion-in-the-media/culture/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/27/gas-explosion-in-the-media/culture/#comments Wed, 27 Mar 2024 14:18:33 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2466 On Monday the Washington Post broke new ground with this news flash on its internet “front page”: Why is my gas so smelly? Gender, diet and plane rides can play a role. Yesterday they ran it again, putting it now “below the fold.” So the smell of your farts is now right up there with …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/27/gas-explosion-in-the-media/culture/feed/ 1 2466 What Billionaires Do at Dinner Parties https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/22/what-billionaires-do-at-dinner-parties/culture/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/22/what-billionaires-do-at-dinner-parties/culture/#comments Fri, 22 Mar 2024 14:27:16 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2460 Well, they get drunk, of course. After the caviar is served and a few cocktails consumed, the party sits down to fancy entrées, then main courses like Kobe Steak, and a lot of wine. What they talk about is so banal that it encourages drinking. Something like this scenario apparently did in poor Angela Chao …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/03/22/what-billionaires-do-at-dinner-parties/culture/feed/ 4 2460 Play what you want. The public will catch up. https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/02/03/play-what-you-want-the-public-will-catch-up/arts/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/02/03/play-what-you-want-the-public-will-catch-up/arts/#comments Sat, 03 Feb 2024 14:41:04 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2394 Monk is right about music but politics is a different story. We are going through rough political times where far too many are just playing what they want. Trump says kill the compromise border bill, and the Party of No complies because governing means play what you and the boss, not the people, want. Congress …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/02/03/play-what-you-want-the-public-will-catch-up/arts/feed/ 1 2394 Flaubert Predicts Trumpworld https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/01/28/flaubert-predicts-trumpworld/arts/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/01/28/flaubert-predicts-trumpworld/arts/#comments Sun, 28 Jan 2024 14:31:04 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2387 “The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.” He also wrote, “Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.” Such thoughts are part of Gustave Flaubert’s lifelong diatribe against the bourgeoisie and the society brought about by …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/01/28/flaubert-predicts-trumpworld/arts/feed/ 2 2387 Hamburgers https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/01/14/hamburgers/agriculture/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/01/14/hamburgers/agriculture/#comments Sun, 14 Jan 2024 14:42:41 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2368 The only bad thing about hamburgers is that Trump eats them. I love them even though they are America’s favorite food. My father, a big red-meat eater, cooked them over charcoal, crispy on the outside, red to pink inside. That to me is still the standard. The recent fuss about not eating red meat is …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/01/14/hamburgers/agriculture/feed/ 3 2368 Calling a Spade a Spade https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/01/06/calling-a-spade-a-spade/culture/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/01/06/calling-a-spade-a-spade/culture/#comments Sat, 06 Jan 2024 14:56:14 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2360 The expression dates back to Greek times, and it’s been pretty common ever since. When I was growing up “spade” was a nasty way to refer to black people, but of course that usage has grown toxic for obvious reasons. So let’s take the original meaning—telling it like it is—to run down a few recent …

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]]> https://goodmanspeaks.com/2024/01/06/calling-a-spade-a-spade/culture/feed/ 3 2360 How Bad Taste Dominated 2023 https://goodmanspeaks.com/2023/12/31/how-bad-taste-dominated-2023/culture/ https://goodmanspeaks.com/2023/12/31/how-bad-taste-dominated-2023/culture/#respond Sun, 31 Dec 2023 14:35:08 +0000 https://goodmanspeaks.com/?p=2353 I first broached the subject of bad taste (about which there’s no disputing) back in July here. My point was basically this: “If culture is enlightenment, the new bad taste glorifies most any excess and flouts the most accepted of values. Are the Barbarians at the gates?” They’re not only at the gates, they have …

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