Another Aspect of World History: But Not Spam

[RonPrice]

Given the many definitions and renditions of spam on the internet, I shall try another of my prose-poems from the poem factory to see if this work passes the seal of good-housekeeping here.-Ron Price, Australia--one can but try...

CONNECTIONS

C.Wright Mills tried to make us aware of the intricate connection between the patterns of our own lives and the course of world history, as ordinary men do not usually know what this connection means for the kinds of men they are becoming and for the kinds of history-making in which they might take part. They do not possess the quality of mind essential to grasp the interplay of man and society, of biography and history, of self and world.(1) Human beings need an historical consciousness that is both providential and humanistic, that stimulates the process of making connections and finding patterns between individual lives and the course of history.-Ron Price with thanks to (1) C.W. Mills, the Sociological Imagination, 1959, p.4.

A lot of things relate
to a lot of things,
big-and-little-pictures
in this time of history
with its many isms,
wasms which have
collapsed as explanations
of the world and ourselves.(1)

Meanwhile, there has been
an influence not dwelling
elsewhere in literature
or philosophy that shatters
the cup of speech that we
cannot contain as we cannot
dam the sea.(2)

This influence asks us
to stretch ourselves
beyond the here-and-now
and present awareness,
subtlely reminding us
of what we already know
in the big world that has
made us what we are,
as sub-creators in our
own understanding.

(1) Immanuel Wallerstein, "Louis Horowitz, C. Wright Mills: An American Utopian," Theory and Society, Vol.15, 1986, pp.465-474.
(2) Horace Holley quoted in the Ocean of His Words, J. Hatcher, Wilmette, 1997,p.3.

Ron Price
8 November 2002
(updated for Civilization
Fanatics' Forum 21/5/'08)

 

[echinococcus]

Hooray!
(Hastens to copy new internet meme in hope of getting it complete this time)


YOU HAVE MY SWORD

 

[RonPrice]

Meme-theorists, echinococcus, contend that memes evolve through the processes of variation, mutation, competition and inheritance influencing an individual entity's reproductive success. So with memes, some ideas will propagate less successfully and become extinct, while others will survive, spread, and, for better or for worse, mutate. Memeticists argue that the memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes that replicate the most effectively spread best, which allows for the possibility that successful memes may prove detrimental to their hosts."(Wikipedia)

If "successful memes may prove detrimental to their hosts," as this Wikipedia description of a meme suggests, then I hope my meme is unsuccessful.
-Ron

 

[echinococcus]

Meme-theorists, echinococcus, contend that memes evolve through the processes of variation, mutation, competition and inheritance influencing an individual entity's reproductive success. So with memes, some ideas will propagate less successfully and become extinct, while others will survive, spread, and, for better or for worse, mutate. Memeticists argue that the memes most beneficial to their hosts will not necessarily survive; rather, those memes that replicate the most effectively spread best, which allows for the possibility that successful memes may prove detrimental to their hosts."(Wikipedia)

If "successful memes may prove detrimental to their hosts," as this Wikipedia description of a meme suggests, then I hope my meme is unsuccessful.
-Ron

You took the words right out of my mouth.

 

[flyingchicken]

Trying to be difficult to understand is detrimental to understanding. /captain obvious

 

[Knight-Dragon]

Closed for spam and lack of topic for discussion. Pls stop it, RonPrice. Thx.