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    <title>What the Prophets Knew About Meals by Swapan Samanta</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["The ancient wisdom of five religious traditions anticipated the gross inequities of modern economics – and offers a way out."

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PART I: WHAT JESUS KNEW ABOUT SCARCITY

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PART II: WHAT THE BUDDHA KNEW ABOUT CONSUMPTION

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PART III: WHAT MOSES KNEW ABOUT JUBILEE

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PART IV: WHAT THE QURAN KNEW ABOUT ZAKAT

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PART V: WHAT THE VEDAS KNEW ABOUT ANNADANAM

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"PART VI: THE PROPHETIC CONVERGENCE

What astonishes me as an economist is that these traditions – separated by geography, theology, culture – arrive at similar economic principles:

- Food exists outside market logic (Jesus: distribute freely)
- Consumption without calculation is liberation (Buddha: the bowl)
- Wealth compounds dangerously and must be reset (Moses: Jubilee)
- Extreme wealth must circulate, not accumulate (Quran: Zakat)
- Food is concentrated time and must be shared (Vedas: Annadanam)

These aren’t metaphors. They’re economic policies, encoded in religious language because that was the only framework that could enforce them.

And here’s what terrifies me: every civilization that abandoned these principles collapsed. Contrary to Jubilee, Rome consolidated land into latifundia, peasants became slaves, and the empire fell. Contrary to zakat, in pre-revolutionary France, wealth became concentrated, peasants starved, and heads rolled. Contrary to annadanam, in Gilded-Age America company stores led to debt peonage and ended in the Great Depression. We’re forgetting again.

According to Oxfam’s analysis of the UBS Global Wealth Report:

- the top 1 percent own 43 percent of wealth;
- the top 10 percent own 82 percent of wealth;
- the bottom 50 percent own 2 percent of wealth.

When I extrapolate this trend forward fifty years (without intervention):

- the top 1 percent will own 89 percent of wealth;
- the top 10 percent will own 97.8 percent of wealth
- the bottom 50 percent will own 0.01 percent of wealth.

At that point, money becomes meaningless. When 1 percent own everything, currency collapses, barter returns, society fractures.

PART VII: THE WAY FORWARD

I’m a mathematician. I don’t believe in miracles. But I believe in patterns. And the pattern is clear: sustainable civilizations maintain anti-extraction mechanisms that interrupt compound inequality. Some modern policy equivalents:

Universal Basic Food (Jesus model)

- 30 percent of meals from community kitchens
- No means testing, no stigma
- Everyone eats together once a day

Consumption Sabbaticals (Buddha model)

- One day each week, markets close
- Non-commercial activities only
- Interrupts compound consumption

Jubilee Wealth Tax (Moses model)

- Every ten years, wealth above ₹l billion taxed at 90 percent
- Revenue funds Universal Basic Assets for next generation
- Resets intergenerational compound inequality

Mandatory Circulation (zakat model)

- Wealth above ₹1 billion must circulate 5 percent per year
- Not tax (government takes), but forced investment/spending
- Keeps money moving, prevents dead capital

Time-Credit Food Systems (annadanam model)

- Volunteer one hour per month and receive food credits
- Decouples food access from money
- Creates parallel economy denominated in time

None of this is new. The prophets handed us the blueprints thousands of years ago. We’ve just convinced ourselves that ancient wisdom is “impractical” – while our “practical” system drives us toward collapse.

Consider how many hours you work to meet survival needs? How would your life change if one meal per day was free (Jesus), one day per week you didn’t calculate (Buddha), your wealth reset at intervals (Moses), everyone gave away 2.5 percent of their wealth annually (zakat), and you received food based on need, not money (annadanam)? How would your relationship to food, work, time, and others change? The prophets weren’t offering charity. They were offering structural freedom – liberation from the extraction system that turns eating into economics and economics into suffering. The mathematics prove they were right. The question is: Will we listen before the equation solves itself through collapse?

The prophets knew. The math knows. We pretend not to know. But hunger is patient. And it’s doing the calculation for us."]]></description>
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quoting:
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The transition from age 20 to age 30 is brutal, both mentally and physically. Many people leave their prime behind while others only now enter it. The former become older and heavier not in body but in spirit. I am going through a second puberty and am skinnier than I was in uni, so you should obviously listen to me.

I have padded out my hysterical advice with milquetoast (but effective) tips so that only those of you with enough dopamine to read the whole thing get them. I don’t every zombie normie freaking out in the comments section.

1. People either pursue an interesting or a happy life (that does not mean you are either boring or miserable; it means these values guide your decision-making). Penelope Trunk has a test I came across years ago. People who fall in the ‘interesting’ camp move away from family for career reasons, are maximisers of looks, status and experiences, have strong opinions and diverse friendship groups, are interested in experimenting and are predisposed to melancholy. Happy people want to be content. Interesting people suffer from existential angst. People who are great at something are obsessives to the detriment of ‘happiness’.

2. The pursuit of happiness alone will make you miserable. Happiness is the by-product of pursuing loftier goals.

3. Find the perfect word; don’t be lazy in speech or writing. People long to be described accurately.

4. You earn the right to be yourself by consistently withstanding people’s reactions to you.

5. Use everything. Don’t save outfits, stories, or bottles of wine. Don’t worry about using garments that stain easily if you love them. White looks lovely on tanned skin.

6. I guarantee you will fall in love with anyone you give your undivided attention to. If you struggle to enjoy human interactions, pay closer attention. Nobody is boring.

7. All villains are redeemable. Even you.

8. Take as much career risk as your health allows, not as much risk as your anxiety dictates is safe. If your genes survived past the 21st century, it is highly unlikely you are wired to enjoy a mundane life. I know many rich, depressed lawyers.

9. If your parents can afford to pay your rent you have 0 excuse for not living a creative life.

10. If not, know that art craves boundaries. Art loves nothing more than a deadline and no desk to write on. Adversity gives you stories. Every great artist had a struggle. Nobody cries looking at nepo babies taping rotting fruit on a canvas.

11. Arguing with someone can be a sign of respect. Someone respects you enough to think they can reason with you and are confident enough in their relationship with you to know it can withstand disagreement. Confrontation is a net positive.

12. All people have something interesting to tell you if only you know to ask the right questions. My favourites are:

a. What were you like in high school?

b. What’s your favourite dish/movie and why?

c. What’s your zodiac sign (confirm whether the characteristics of their sign are true for them)?

d. What’s your relationship with your family like?

13. Many people want to be writers, but not many people want to spend hours and days typing alone. The same goes for all professions, arts, hobbies.

14. Find the exquisite pleasure in a broken heart. Like a baby tooth hanging by its last ligament, the heart yearns to be pulled apart. Some people are melancholic by nature. Those who fight this nature tend to become depressed easily. Those of us who embrace it write really good love letters.

15. There is only one way to be loved for who you are: to be hated for who you are not. It is better to have 10 people who hate you and 10 who love you than 20 who don’t feel anything when they see a photo of your 4-year-old self in striped pyjamas bouncing on Santa’s knee.

16. Looking sexy is incompatible with looking uncomfortable. This goes for both men and women. However, sometimes you need to be a little cold. Never wear tights with over the knee boots. The girls from The North have a point.

17. Walk everywhere and eat a lot of protein, that’s the secret to a ‘high metabolism’.

18. Nuts and legumes and don’t have enough protein: eat skyr, greek yoghurt, white fish, chicken, venison and other wild meats (lower in fat and higher in protein), tuna and shrimp. If you need a snack and you are on the go, buy a tab of cottage cheese and eat it with a spoon like a yoghurt. If you want it to be sweet, buy the pineapple-flavoured one.

19. The sooner you learn not to care about people staring at you, the more productive, joyful and easy your life will become. Whether you are eating a tub of cottage cheese on the bus or wearing your Pikatsu onesie to the corner shop, there is great pleasure in the confidence to ignore society’s unwritten rules.

“People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

20. As soon as possible in your life, learn why some people love vegetables. Befriend those of us who grew up eating them out of love, not punishment. The secret is usually good olive oil, a LOT of lemon, and salt. Blanch or steam, don’t boil. Don’t overcook.

21. Buy people coffee and drinks whenever you can; they may not always reciprocate, but you are not doing it because you need a free coffee in the future. People will forget what you tell them but will never forget how you made them feel. Our parents bought us things for free, without expectation, for the first and the longest time. People will never forget you made them feel taken care of and thought of.

22. Order chips at the pub and share them with everyone. Crunchy communal carbs are social lubrication far superior to shots.

23. When you feel grateful about something someone has done for you, text them immediately. A simple text. A check-in or a ‘I thought of you’. Don’t leave it for later because postponing things only leads to deathbed regrets. Don’t let the perfect text be the enemy of a good enough text.

24. Equally, always pay deserved compliments. If your eyes light up when you see a woman in a beautiful dress, tell her. Compliment the men, too; they look nice sometimes.

25. Never network. Make new friends.

26. A loyal and admiring junior is worth ten times the senior who doesn’t know your name.

27. Drugs fry some of the greatest minds of every generation because greatness comes from obsessiveness. Obsessive people have addictive personalities, and drugs that stimulate their brains make people who already feel like Jesus feel like Father God himself. Slowly, their speech patterns change, and they don’t really respond to what you are saying, and they don’t realise it, and then ten years later, they have a psychotic break out.

28. Also, a lot of alcoholics. My cardinal addictions were men and food, and I have channelled them into my career and fitness.

29. Don’t worry whether people invite you to their parties or over their homes for dinner. If you enjoy hosting and feeding others, you don’t need them to return the treat to feel the benefits.

30. Closeted Gays are a million times more fun after they come out of the closet. If you have friends from the past who you sense might be gay and who you distanced yourself from over the years because you did not feel connected enough, give them another shot once they are out to themselves and the world because normally, they transform into full humans after that and a lot of their shortcomings make more sense in the context.

31. Bonus point: If you fancy or fancied me at any point, there is a 70% chance you are bi/gay. Data don’t lie, look into it.

[image: "me and one my many gay ex-boyfriends outside our high school"]

32. If you can’t organise your kitchen in a way that doesn’t make cooking an infuriating task, you have too much stuff. You don’t need two cheese graters. You should not need a hazmat suit to open your cupboard.

33. To boost your self-confidence, buy personal training sessions rather than new clothes and expensive make-up. Fit people look good in anything. It’s hard not to love your body when you spend time working with it.

34. Generally, spending money on things is the least effective way to use your money to improve your appearance and attractiveness. The most effective ways (descending order) are diet, exercise, cleanliness, a good haircut, learning what suits your skin tone and body shape, wearing the correct size, taking a few deep breaths, relaxing your eyebrows and lips, pushing your shoulders down and straightening your back, not fidgeting or playing with your hair, letting your locks frame your face as they please, loosening up your belt, shoe strings, top button, steaming/ironing your clothes.

35. Most people need to size up in clothing and won’t do it either because they are attached to the size they were wearing in college or because they don’t realise that ‘I can pull the zipper up’ is not the definite cue that something is the best size for you. I wear a UK size 12 (US size 8), and curiously, 90% of my friends wear smaller sizes than me. Reader, I am not the biggest in my social circle but I am the most effective looks maximiser. Some men need to size down, but it’s rare.

36. If you want to smile for a photo or to conceal your inner existential dread, touch your tongue behind the top row of your teeth. It makes your smile look genuine, and your eyes light up. I read it in Cosmopolitan when I was 13 and never stopped doing it. It is a handy trick if you are mercurial and don’t want to spend a whole night telling people everything is fine because the gothic novel princess in your brain would rather have stayed under the duvet.

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37. Your habits become your character and as you can change your habits, you can also change your character. You can reinvent yourself whenever you want. Do the things the person you want to be would do.

38. Don’t ask people whether they think you can do something, ask them how to do it instead.

39. If someone gives you negative feedback, react calmly and gratefully, even if you disagree. You want them to feel comfortable to do it again. Reward those who engage in social behaviours that risk their social standing but ultimately benefit your personal development. Don’t shoot the messenger. Get a link for anonymous feedback.

40. If there is no food left over, someone is still hungry.

41. Always be ready to be seen naked, it doesn’t matter if you never have casual encounters. You deserve presentable underwear every day and sexual vigor is a sign of a thriving organism.

42. Don’t listen to people triggered by phone-yielding youths; take hundreds of photos of your friends and times together. It will boost dopamine every time you flicker through your album.

43. Take candid photos of people and send them to them. Even strangers! When you go on holiday abroad, photograph a couple kissing and ask them to airdrop their photo. They will be so grateful.

44. Infatuations are to be enjoyed twice. The first time is when they are felt. The second is when they are confessed. Tell them and remember point number 10 above.

45. Don’t worry about boosting other people’s egos because they think you fancy them more than you do. Romance is not a blinking match. Infatuations are selfish acts. We tell people we want them because we will burst if we don’t, what they do with it is none of our business.

46. If you want to know how someone judges you, notice what they criticise about others when they gossip with you. Remember that this is also how they judge themselves.

47. Everyone is looking for free therapy, whether they know it or not. Time your pauses generously after each question.

48. Envy is my favourite feeling. I am awash with excitement when I feel it. It’s my subconscious’s way of showing me what I want. Now I can go out and get it.

49. My second favourite feeling is desperation in myself and in others. Don’t be repelled by it; receive it and channel it. People live lives of meekness out of fear of exposing their wants. Underpinning this is the lack of belief they can get what they want once they’ve said they want it. To want and to not get is a universal human condition, and it is that universality that makes it romantic and timeless, not sad and pathetic as its bearers fear. We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

50. Don’t distance yourself from people because they are better looking or more privileged in material ways unless they are obnoxious about it. Having hot, rich friends is a superpower.

51. If you don’t want to live life anxious, people will abandon you when you are poor, sick or sad; don’t abandon people when they are poor, sick or sad. Superpower.

52. Generally, the more you are afraid people will judge you about something, the more likely it is you judge others by that value. If you don’t value, say, unearned wealth, then you should be pretty chill about people finding out you never went abroad until you went to uni.

53. 70% of looking presentable is being very very clean.

54. Most people go to grad school because they don’t know what to do with their lives. Your parent's money is better spent investing in your new business. If you don’t know what business that could be…

55. ….get a job, any job you can and pay close attention to which parts of it you enjoy and hate, what comes easier to you than your colleagues and what comes harder. Then, find another job based on those.

56. Life is too short to fight your sensitivities and proclivities. Don’t be embarrassed by what moves you, and ignore the repressed people who are jealous you are living an honest life.

57. Usually, when people are repeatedly triggered by a specific attribute in people (e.g. insecurity, snobbism, vanity, selfishness), it is because they are aware they have it too.

58. Men are good at arguing, and women are good at manipulating. Women need to learn to fight back and not flee a fight, and men need to learn to be subtle and play the long game.

59. One time in your life, read a bunch of self-help books. Do it once: finance, fitness, career etc. Do everything they say: set up your savings account/pension/investment scheme, start weightlifting, clear out your closet, fold everything Mary Kondo style etc. Then, never read another self-help book in your life.

60. There may be people you were very fond of in your life but who find it hard to be around once your lives take different turns. You might be a painful reminder of the person they could have been but aren’t. Leave the door open if you want but let them go in peace.

61. If your friend or partner is upset, ask them if they want solutions or a listening ear before you autistically ruin the vibe.

62. When I ask friends for feedback on my writing, and they comment on the story or commiserate me on something that sounds sad- I don’t care. I am more interested in knowing if they found the writing entertaining, nourishing or moving. If someone asks you to critique their art, gauge what they want. Many people crave encouragement. A few crave the candid and withering feedback.

63. Good career advice for many women is never to learn to do the things you don’t want to continue doing. I am useless with working diaries and Excel sheets, but you can always count on me to give a speech or chair a panel.

64. Also, always learn to do the technical things only a handful of men in the team know how to do. In one of my initial campaigns, I lasted longer than most other staffers because I insisted that the only man in our group who could program the backend of our new app and handle the data inputs and outputs to teach me how to do it too. I ignored his protests that it would be quicker for him to handle it than teach me. When the time came for our next assignment, only two out of tens of staff members were diploid to the next state: me and the dipshit. The girls who were very good at separating the recycling got sent home.

65. There is no escape from suffering. You can either suffer because you love someone or something or because you don’t love anyone and anything. Decisions, decisions, decisions.

66. Splurge on what you use daily; save on what you use once a year. Buy the best-fitting fucking jeans. Don’t worry about buying heels; remember, you can’t dance in them.

67. Don’t say you hate your job if you actually love it. Don’t say you love it if you actually hate it. Resist the temptation to lie when people ask you how you are doing, but if the answer is genuinely that you are tired, stressed or bored all the time, then ask yourself what would need to change for you to feel energised, motivated, and engaged. Whenever someone asks me if I like my career, it is an opportunity to remind myself how grateful I am.

68. Misery loves company; don’t take advice from people whose lives you don’t want to emulate. One of the most miserable married women I know (my mom) is sending me Pew Research Marriage Makes People Happier studies.

69. The cure to hate is curiosity.

70. Something is only a problem if it makes you feel bad. Eating healthy is very different from ‘dieting’.

71. Become people’s safe space by controlling your reaction when you witness them being humiliated or confessing something embarrassing. Many people’s nervous systems are fried from being raised by reactive parents. The reason people keep their struggles or shameful moments secret, with compounding detrimental long-term effects, is because they still have the emotional composition of a toddler eager to please their elders. If you want to enshrine emotional resilience in someone, model stoic acceptance of life’s rollercoaster. Whatever it is, we will work through it.

72. If you get a baby pet, say a puppy or kitten, take a million photos and videos of them while they are still small. Presumably, the same goes for baby humans, but what do I know.

73. Embrace responsibility, act like you, and you alone must save the world. If the world’s lost, it’ll be on you.1

74. If you don’t know what to write about, stop stopping yourself from writing what you are thinking. There is a reason I mostly write about men, careers, and mom. Most people hate writing because when they try to do it, they force themselves to write what they think will make them look good: a topic that makes them sound serious, an argument that makes them sound deep. Who are they kidding? Most of people’s minds are in the GUTTER. WRITE ABOUT THAT.

75. Be the first on the table to put down your knife and fork and use your fingers when the dish craves it. Others will silently thank you.

76. Do you fancy them, or do you want to be them? If it’s the latter, don’t fret; copy them.

77. Don’t use rich men for money; use them for access.

78. Never order takeaway alone. Buy a steak and a bag of salad. Come to think of it, never order take away, ever, unless you feel nostalgic. Buy two steaks and a bag of salad.

79. Enjoy the power and beauty of your youth. [https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/40501-enjoy-the-power-and-beauty-of-your-youth-oh-nevermind ] Oh, never mind. You will not understand the power and beauty of your youth until they've faded.

80. If a social situation needs to claim an ego, offer up your own. People feel subconscious loyalty to those who let them save face.

81. Don’t worry about powerful men chasing you and then hanging you out to dry. Let them think they humiliated you. Men who are not psychopaths but have leadership qualities feel terrible when they know they hurt women. Don’t try to take revenge; let the situation cool off and use them for favours for the rest of your life.

82. Proactively give positive feedback to people excelling at something for a long time. People stop acknowledging excellence when you break into the top, but even Obama craves to know that his speech went well.

83. When someone posts online about a relative or friend dying or some other personal misfortune, message them immediately with a simple offer of sympathy. Don’t worry if you don’t know them well enough. The result of people looking for the perfect reaction to people’s grief is that we leave the grieving to struggle alone.

84. Sometimes, people need you to mirror their feelings to feel heard; other times, they need you to calm them. Know which friend will give you which, too, if you want to let your feelings flow with a friend. If I am distressed, I don’t want to be with people who will mirror my emotional state because that makes me feel worse. Equally, if I am very excited about something, I don’t want to confess it to the friend who asks rational, practical questions about every update.

85. Whether you think you can or can’t do something: you are right. A lot of success is about ambition more than it is about skill or even hard work. Most people don’t even apply.

86. Men and children love red dresses, lips and nails. Find the crimson shades that suit your undertones and overtones and wear them liberally.

87. Wear at least 2 different primers under your foundation.

88. Buy professional shampoo and conditioner.

89. Start a blog. [https://blog.penelopetrunk.com/penelopes-guide-to-blogging/ ] A private journal is not good enough because you won’t do it. It doesn’t matter if nobody reads it at first or ever. You are not writing to make money but to force yourself to structure your thoughts. Self-discovery will make you richer in the long run. People assume those who express more know more. Studies show individuals who speak more during group interactions are likelier to be viewed as leaders, independent of what they say.

90. The most comforting relief of grief destined never to resolve itself is to think of everyone else suffering the same pain. If you don’t think suffering brings you closer to God, know it brings you closer to mankind.

91. Dressing down when you are a regular glamazon is a power move. Every now and then, show up to a party in jeans and a crop top to keep them guessing.

92. The sexiest recipe in the universe: chicken thighs in cream and tarragon (Jay Rayner has the best recipe).

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93. Hang around people significantly younger and older than you. Pick a few and develop close friendships with them. Feed off the energy of the young and soak the wisdom of the old.

94. Finally, someone in my feedback link said I am obsessed with status (brother, you are telling me?), but I have found status to be a poor motivator for any habit that sticks. If the 12 years of adulthood have taught me anything about self-improvement and discipline is that the only effective motivation to do anything is to take care of others. Get fit, make money, and amass clout and social influence, all in the hope that if you find yourself driving down the highway, you won’t speed past the wounded dog. Everything else falls off the wagon."]]></description>
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    <dc:date>2024-09-18T19:41:25+00:00</dc:date>
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(...)

INTERVIEWER

That’s the character who makes a brief appearance in Something Wicked This Way Comes, right? And you’ve often spoken of a real-life Mr. Electrico, though no scholar has ever been able to confirm his existence. The story has taken on a kind of mythic stature—the director of the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies calls the search for Mr. Electrico the “Holy Grail” of Bradbury scholarship.

BRADBURY

Yes, but he was a real man. That was his real name. Circuses and carnivals were always passing through Illinois during my childhood and I was in love with their mystery. One autumn weekend in 1932, when I was twelve years old, the Dill Brothers Combined Shows came to town. One of the performers was Mr. Electrico. He sat in an electric chair. A stagehand pulled a switch and he was charged with fifty thousand volts of pure electricity. Lightning flashed in his eyes and his hair stood on end.

The next day, I had to go the funeral of one of my favorite uncles. Driving back from the graveyard with my family, I looked down the hill toward the shoreline of Lake Michigan and I saw the tents and the flags of the carnival and I said to my father, Stop the car. He said, What do you mean? And I said, I have to get out. My father was furious with me. He expected me to stay with the family to mourn, but I got out of the car anyway and I ran down the hill toward the carnival.

It didn’t occur to me at the time, but I was running away from death, wasn’t I? I was running toward life. And there was Mr. Electrico sitting on the platform out in front of the carnival and I didn’t know what to say. I was scared of making a fool of myself. I had a magic trick in my pocket, one of those little ball-and-vase tricks—a little container that had a ball in it that you make disappear and reappear—and I got that out and asked, Can you show me how to do this? It was the right thing to do. It made a contact. He knew he was talking to a young magician. He took it, showed me how to do it, gave it back to me, then he looked at my face and said, Would you like to meet those people in that tent over there? Those strange people? And I said, Yes sir, I would. So he led me over there and he hit the tent with his cane and said, Clean up your language! Clean up your language! He took me in, and the first person I met was the illustrated man. Isn’t that wonderful? The Illustrated Man! He called himself the tattooed man, but I changed his name later for my book. I also met the strong man, the fat lady, the trapeze people, the dwarf, and the skeleton. They all became characters.
Mr. Electrico was a beautiful man, see, because he knew that he had a little weird kid there who was twelve years old and wanted lots of things. We walked along the shore of Lake Michigan and he treated me like a grown-up. I talked my big philosophies and he talked his little ones. Then we went out and sat on the dunes near the lake and all of a sudden he leaned over and said, I’m glad you’re back in my life. I said, What do you mean? I don’t know you. He said, You were my best friend outside of Paris in 1918. You were wounded in the Ardennes and you died in my arms there. I’m glad you’re back in the world. You have a different face, a different name, but the soul shining out of your face is the same as my friend. Welcome back.

Now why did he say that? Explain that to me, why? Maybe he had a dead son, maybe he had no sons, maybe he was lonely, maybe he was an ironical jokester. Who knows? It could be that he saw the intensity with which I live. Every once in a while at a book signing I see young boys and girls who are so full of fire that it shines out of their face and you pay more attention to that. Maybe that’s what attracted him.

When I left the carnival that day I stood by the carousel and I watched the horses running around and around to the music of “Beautiful Ohio,” and I cried. Tears streamed down my cheeks. I knew something important had happened to me that day because of Mr. Electrico. I felt changed. He gave me importance, immortality, a mystical gift. My life was turned around completely. It makes me cold all over to think about it, but I went home and within days I started to write. I’ve never stopped.

Seventy-seven years ago, and I’ve remembered it perfectly. I went back and saw him that night. He sat in the chair with his sword, they pulled the switch, and his hair stood up. He reached out with his sword and touched everyone in the front row, boys and girls, men and women, with the electricity that sizzled from the sword. When he came to me, he touched me on the brow, and on the nose, and on the chin, and he said to me, in a whisper, “Live forever.” And I decided to."

[via:
https://www.robinsloan.com/newsletters/golden-door/

"If you haven’t ever read Ray Bradbury’s tale of Mr. Electrico, and his origin as a writer — maybe as a person — then go rectify the situation immediately. I don’t even want to quote anything; it’s all just a thrilling, iconic sequence of memory. Another golden door."]]]></description>
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    <title>A Conversation on Creating Art in Diaspora [Rupy C. Tut and Maya Salameh] - YouTube</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Living in diaspora is an infinitely complex, deeply personal experience that occurs in vastly different ways. This program will allow two accomplished artists who are creating art in diaspora to reflect upon their overlapping motivations and experiences, the way their work stands in cultural limbo, and how creating their art has affected their senses of self and identity."

[See also:

https://www.famsf.org/events/rupy-tut-maya-salameh-talk

"Maya Salameh is a Syrian American poet and the author of How to Make an Algorithm in the Microwave (University of Arkansas Press, 2022) and rooh (Paper Nautilus Press, 2020). She is the recipient of the Etel Adnan Poetry Prize and the Markowitz Award, and her work has appeared in POETRY, The Rumpus, and the LA Times. She can be found at @mayaslmh or mayasalameh.com. 

Rupy C. Tut creates paintings on paper and linen using handmade pigments. Her work is rooted in personal history; Tut is a grandchild of refugees, an immigrant, a mother, and a preservationist of traditional Indian painting techniques in use since 18th century AD. Her work is in the permanent collection of the Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento; the de Young, San Francisco; and the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco."

Rupy C. Tut
https://www.rupyctut.com/

Maya Salameh
https://www.mayasalameh.com/ ]]]></description>
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    <title>Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: &quot;Wildcat The Totality&quot; - Fred Moten And Stefano Harney Revisit The Undercommons In A Time Of Pandemic And Rebellion (Part 1)</title>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[[Part 2 here: https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/give-away-your-home-constantly-fred-moten-and-stefano-harney ]

“This is part one of a two-part conversation with Fred Moten and Stefano Harney. 

Fred Moten is the author of In The Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition, multiple volumes of poetry, and most recently the trilogy consent not to be a single being.

Stefano Harney is the author of Nationalism and Identity: Culture and the Imagination in a Caribbean Diaspora. He also co-authored The Liberal Arts and Management Education: A Global Agenda for Change with Howard Thomas, and State Work: Public Administration and Mass Intellectuality.

In 2013, Moten and Harney collaborated on The Undercommons: Fugitive Planning and Black Study a text that has been influential to both Josh and myself. 

They graciously accepted the invitation to revisit this work, and their thinking in this time of pandemic and rebellion. 

In this first portion of our conversation, we begin a discussion of the undercommons, the Academy, the general antagonism, solidarity, empathy, whiteness, politics, citizenship, Blackness, and patriarchy.

We hope you enjoy part one of this discussion as much as we did, and we will be releasing part 2 next week.”]]></description>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["volunteering as an after-school tutor for 1st through 8th graders. The place was technically a writing center, situated in suburban Seattle, and open, free of charge, to any kid in the city. Its mission was to help kids learn to write, which would presumably improve their school performance and their prospects for life success.

I walked past that writing center today (I’m visiting Seattle this summer), and spent a moment reminiscing fondly. I remembered the always-warm atmosphere and the kind, helpful teachers. I remembered the fun activities and writing prompts.

Then I remembered why I left, and why I can never work or volunteer at such a place ever again. In the final months of my volunteership, my faith in the basic premise of the writing center faded. The founders of that organization, and the dedicated people who staffed it every day, had to believe wholeheartedly in two things. And I no longer believed in either of those things.

Here are the two necessary beliefs:

1. It is possible for a person to make another person better at writing.
2. Writing is inherently and objectively interesting and valuable.

And here is why I don’t believe those things anymore.

Belief #1: It is possible for a person to make another person better at writing
Writing is hard. I suspect that people who seek writing instruction are feeling overwhelmed with the difficulty of the task and are looking for a way to make it easier — maybe some tips or tricks that the pros use which have somehow been kept secret from us plebeians. But there is no shortcut, no quick fix. There is only lots and lots of work.

A belief in the power of teaching shifts the responsibility for growth off of the learner and onto the teacher. This can only result in slacking on the learner’s part, frustration on the teacher’s part, and a bit of magical thinking to maintain the illusion of success in spite of perfect failure.

Stephen King, in his book On Writing, offered this piece of advice:

“If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot.”

Perhaps On Writing would have been a fine book even if King had left it at that. By reading a lot, you develop a sense for what good writing looks like and what bad writing looks like — just as a child learns her native language by listening to people talk a lot and learns to detect good grammar and bad grammar. She can’t define good grammar, but she knows it when she hears it.

Once you have that sense, you can start producing your own writing. You’re terrible at first, but now you know you’re terrible because you have that sense. Then you try it a different way and maybe it’s a little better, or maybe not. Then you read some more and refine your sense. Then you practice writing some more.

I suppose a writing teacher can provide prompts, but then again, so can a computer.

I’m reminded of this discouraging piece of wisdom from bestselling novelist Haruki Murakami:

“Being a novelist isn’t a job for everyone. Nobody ever recommended or even suggested that I be a novelist—in fact, some tried to stop me. I simply had the idea to be one, and that’s what I did.”

A person who loves and values writing will read a lot and write a lot on their own initiative. You don’t need to tell them to write and you certainly don’t need to make them. A person who doesn’t love or value writing will not write, and that’s that. Which brings us to belief #2…

Belief #2: Writing is inherently and objectively interesting and valuable
I suspect that 9 out of 10 of the kids who attend that writing center do not really care about writing, or only care about writing text messages.

I suspect that their parents want them to care about writing, or want them to get good at writing despite not caring about it.

I know that the staff feel, as I do, that writing is the bomb! We love to write and we love to share our love of writing with kids.

But further, the staff believe, as I no longer believe, that writing is inherently, objectively, and universally interesting and valuable. They believe that if a kid doesn’t like writing, it is our job as teachers to inspire a love of writing within them — to awaken that dormant fire that must exist deep down in every person. This process of inspiration can be arduous and uncomfortable, as depicted in this cartoon (which was shared on Facebook by one of those teachers during Teacher Appreciation Week):

[image]

This cartoon is a feel-good fantasy for teachers. No kid has ever been inspired by being chased down and violated. Some kids discover a passion for writing and some don’t. Teachers like to seek validation by pointing to the kids who ultimately discovered a love of writing and saying, “That was me, I did that.” They rarely draw attention to the vastly more numerous kids who were not inspired.

We all have a tendency to feel as though our personal interests are shared by all of humanity. We want others to get excited about the things we get excited about. It’s a way of connecting with one another. We have to learn, by repeatedly butting up against the stubbornness of other people’s interests and values, that everyone is different.

And it’s good that everyone is different! Maybe I’m good at writing but someone else is good at speaking, and yet another person is good at presenting graphs and charts. There is no end to the variation. We compliment others’ weaknesses with our strengths.

I can never go back to that writing center because the very premise of the writing center is this: kids who don’t want to write should be manipulated into writing anyway. Manipulating people in that way has no appeal to me. I look at the above cartoon and imagine myself chasing down that poor kid and prying off his skull while he’s crying in pain and it makes me sick. I don’t want to have that kind of relationship with children.

It’s okay if a kid doesn’t like to write. And it’s okay if he does like to write. I have a notebook, a pen, and a stack of books that he can use anytime."]]></description>
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    <title>dy/dan » Blog Archive » Testify</title>
    <dc:date>2016-08-13T06:42:14+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Karim Ani, the founder of Mathalicious, hassles me because I design problems about water tanks while Mathalicious tackles issues of greater sociological importance. Traditionalists like Barry Garelick see my 3-Act Math project as superficial multimedia whizbangery and wonder why we don’t just stick with thirty spiraled practice problems every night when that’s worked pretty well for the world so far. Basically everybody I follow on Twitter cast a disapproving eye at posts trying to turn Pokémon Go into the future of education, posts which no one will admit to having written in three months, once Pokémon Go has fallen farther out of the public eye than Angry Birds.

So this 3-Act math task is bound to disappoint everybody above. It’s a trivial question about a piece of pop culture ephemera wrapped up in multimedia whizbangery.

But I had to testify. That’s what this has always been – a testimonial – where by “this” I mean this blog, these tasks, and my career in math education to date.

I don’t care about Pokémon Go. I don’t care about multimedia. I don’t care about the sociological importance of a question.

I care about math’s power to puzzle a person and then help that person unpuzzle herself. I want my work always to testify to that power.

So when I read this article about how people were tricking their smartphones into thinking they were walking (for the sake of achievements in Pokémon Go), I was puzzled. I was curious about other objects that spin, and then about ceiling fans, and then I wondered how long a ceiling fan would have to spin before it had “walked” a necessary number of kilometers. I couldn’t resist the question.

That doesn’t mean you’ll find the question irresistible, or that I think you should. But I feel an enormous burden to testify to my curiosity. That isn’t simple.

“Math is fun,” argues mathematics professor Robert Craigen. “It takes effort to make it otherwise.” But nothing is actually like that – intrinsically interesting or uninteresting. Every last thing – pure math, applied math, your favorite movie, everything – requires humans like ourselves to testify on its behalf.

In one kind of testimonial, I’d stand in front of a class and read the article word-for-word. Then I’d work out all of this math in front of students on the board. I would circle the answer and step back.

But everything I’ve read and experienced has taught me that this would be a lousy testimonial. My curiosity wouldn’t become anybody else’s.

Meanwhile, multimedia allows me to develop a question with students as I experienced it, to postpone helpful tools, information, and resources until they’re necessary, and to show the resolution of that question as it exists in the world itself.

I don’t care about the multimedia. I care about the testimonial. Curiosity is my project. Multimedia lets me testify on its behalf.

So why are you here? What is your project? I care much less about the specifics of your project than I care how you testify on its behalf.

I care about Talking Points much less than Elizabeth Statmore. I care about math mistakes much less than Michael Pershan. I care about elementary math education much less than Tracy Zager and Joe Schwartz. I care about equity much less than Danny Brown and identity much less than Ilana Horn. I care about pure mathematics much less than Sam Shah and Gordi Hamilton. I care about sociological importance much less than Mathalicious. I care about applications of math to art and creativity much less than Anna Weltman.

But I love how each one of them testifies on behalf of their project. When any of them takes the stand to testify, I’m locked in. They make their project my own.

Again:

Why are you here? What is your project? How do you testify on its behalf?"]]></description>
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    <title>How Videogames Like Minecraft Actually Help Kids Learn to Read | WIRED</title>
    <dc:date>2014-10-10T04:49:25+00:00</dc:date>
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    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Minecraft is the hot new videogame among teachers and parents. It's considered genuinely educational: Like an infinite set of programmable Lego blocks, it's a way to instill spatial reasoning, math, and logic—the skills beloved by science and technology educators. But from what I've seen, it also teaches something else: good old-fashioned reading and writing.

How does it do this? The secret lies not inside the game itself but in the players' activities outside of it. Minecraft is surrounded by a culture of literacy. The game comes with minimal instructions or tutorials, so new players immediately set about hunting for info on how it works. That means watching YouTube videos of experts at play, of course, but it also means poring over how-to texts at Minecraft wikis and “walk-through” sites, written by gamers for gamers. Or digging into printed manuals like The Ultimate Player's Guide to Minecraft or the official Minecraft Redstone Handbook, some of which are now best sellers.

This is complex, challenging material. I analyzed several chunks of The Ultimate Player's Guide using the Flesch-Kincaid Reading Ease scale, and they scored from grade 8 to grade 11. Yet in my neighborhood they're being devoured by kids in the early phases of elementary school. Games, it seems, can motivate kids to read—and to read way above their level. This is what Constance Steinkuehler, a games researcher at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discovered. She asked middle and high school students who were struggling readers (one 11th-grade student read at a 6th-grade level) to choose a game topic they were interested in, and then she picked texts from game sites for them to read—some as difficult as first-year-college language. The kids devoured them with no help and nearly perfect accuracy.

How could they do this? “Because they're really, really motivated,” Steinkuehler tells me. It wasn't just that the students knew the domain well; there were plenty of unfamiliar words. But they persisted more because they cared about the task. “It's situated knowledge. They see a piece of language, a turn of phrase, and they figure it out.”

Hannah Gerber, a literacy researcher at Sam Houston State University, found much the same thing. She monitored several 10th-grade students at school and at home and saw that they read only 10 minutes a day in English class—but an astonishing 70 minutes at home as they boned up on games. Again, it was challenging stuff. Steinkuehler found that videogame sites devoted to World of Warcraft, for example, are written at nearly 12th-grade level, with a 2 to 6 percent incidence of “academic” jargon.

Passion for games drives writing too. When Steinkuehler informally observes kids contributing to game sites and discussions online, she sees serious craft. “Suddenly, being a writer is sexy and hip and cool. They have an audience that knows their stuff, and they expect you to be knowledgeable,” she says. What about fiction? Oh, games have you covered there too: Behold the teeming seas of Minecraft fan stories at sites like FanFiction.net or Wattpad. My kids are deep into a trilogy of Minecraft novellas—written by a 13-year-old girl in Missouri.

I'm praising Minecraft, but nearly all games have this effect. The lesson here is the same one John Dewey instructed us in a century ago: To get kids reading and writing, give them a real-world task they care about. These days that's games."]]></description>
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Anyone interested in learning, emerging technology, creativity, the arts, science or craft would be wise to watch this terrific presentation."

[Direct link to video: https://vimeo.com/49891132 ]]]></description>
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    <title>Seth's Blog » Blog Archive » Tyler Cowen’s Unusual Final Exam</title>
    <dc:date>2012-08-11T04:02:12+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://blog.sethroberts.net/2012/08/09/tyler-cowens-unusual-final-exam/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Tyler Cowen’s Unusual Final Exam, from Might be of interest . . . http://blogs.henrico.k12.va.us/interest]]></description>
<dc:subject>ifttt googlereader Might be of interest via:lukeneff tylercowen teaching tests</dc:subject>
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    <title>(SL) DISTIN 15 (This is what happens.)</title>
    <dc:date>2012-02-01T20:13:17+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://sldistin.tumblr.com/post/11011925366/this-is-what-happens</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Looking, really looking, at art (some might say seeing…feeling) is like this: It is like all the other really amazing things in life…You do it too much & you forget how good it can actually be…you become jaded. You don’t get enough & it is all you can think about—the good & the bad. Then, there is one photo…drawing…performance & you want to know all there is to know about it…It is a little bit like falling in love. It’s best, most exciting, when you don’t know why you like something…the thing you are looking at is something you might usually be inclined to dislike…But, with this, you cannot stop looking, cannot stop thinking. And so, in every other thing that you think about, talk about, read about, talk about, read about, you start to see it in all of those other things, whether or not they, directly, have anything to do with that thing you are suddenly, entirely, falling for…all of those other things have changed. And everything that you thought you knew is no longer the same."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://stevemiranda.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/three-rules-for-bringing-out-the-best-in-teachers/">
    <title>Three rules for bringing out the best in teachers « Re-educate Seattle</title>
    <dc:date>2011-02-21T19:10:38+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://stevemiranda.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/three-rules-for-bringing-out-the-best-in-teachers/</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["My friend Nick wrote to me earlier this week and scolded me for constantly critiquing the existing paradigm while rarely proposing specific solutions. So, with a nod to Nick, here’s my specific advice:

1.    Hire talented teachers and let them teach what inspires them.

2.    Never require—in fact, never allow—a teacher to teach content that doesn’t inspire him or her.

3.    Allow teachers to bring their whole selves to work; don’t limit their ability to share talents and things they love simply because it falls outside of their academic department.

I know what you’re thinking: If we followed this advice, we’d have to completely re-invent the way we’ve structured our schools. The current model simply can’t accommodate these recommendations.

Exactly. We have to re-invent the way we structure our schools."]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/05/why-taxing-carried-interest-as-ordinary-income-is-good-policy.html">
    <title>A VC: Why Taxing Carried Interest As Ordinary Income Is Good Policy</title>
    <dc:date>2010-06-01T02:03:19+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/05/why-taxing-carried-interest-as-ordinary-income-is-good-policy.html</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["We have witnessed financial services (think asset management, hedge funds, buyout funds, private equity, and venture capital) grow as a percentage of GNP for the past thirty years. The best and brightest don't go into engineering, science, manufacturing, general management, or entrepreneurship, they go to wall street where they will get paid more. And on top of that, we have been giving these jobs a tax break. That seems like bad policy. If we force hedge funds and the like to compete for talent on a more level playing field, then maybe we'll see our best and brightest minds go to more productive activities than moving money around and taking a cut of the action. .. It's time for asset managers to start paying their fair share of taxes. We are among the most highly compensated people in the world. And we've been getting a huge tax break for years. It's not right and I am happy to see our government finally do something about it."
]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://log.scifihifi.com/post/59360628/ambient-recommendation">
    <title>Sci-Fi Hi-Fi: Weblog: Ambient Recommendation</title>
    <dc:date>2009-12-29T10:27:22+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://log.scifihifi.com/post/59360628/ambient-recommendation</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I think the reasons these more casual recommendation and discovery methods work better for me are 3-fold: 1. They allow me to employ my fuzzy, intuitive perception of peoples’ broader personality and taste to determine how likely I am to like the things they like (I thought the person on Brightkite looked cool, so I trusted her taste; I think my Last.fm friends are cool, so I trust that new stuff I see them playing will be interesting to me). 2. They aren’t explicitly recommendation systems, but rather allow people to implicitly recommend things just by going about their normal business (someone likes a web page so they post it to Delicious to remember it later, the hipsters at Frankies like Gene Clark so they play his music while they work and I hear it incidentally). I think people are more likely to participate in this kind of system than one where they are expected to formally recommend things. 3. They don’t require me to narrow what I’m looking for by overly specific criteria"
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    <title>Quote by Stanley Kubrick: &quot;I think the big mistake in schools is trying to te...&quot;</title>
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    <link>http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/60762</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker."
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<item rdf:about="http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accismus">
    <title>accismus - Wiktionary</title>
    <dc:date>2008-10-20T15:15:21+00:00</dc:date>
    <link>http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/accismus</link>
    <dc:creator>robertogreco</dc:creator><description><![CDATA["Feigning disinterest in something while actually desiring it."
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