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20Nov
Net Neutrality Wins the Day
Luddites of 17th Century England fought the government to retain a hold on their livelihood and standards of living. The government's recent decision to [...]
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20Nov
Entropy
Charles Darwin's Theory of Evolution once was considered shocking. To suggest that humankind descended from apes was considered blasphemous. Oddly we now [...]
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14Nov
Luddite Film of the Century?
Amidst all the rapid and radical change from carbon paper, leaded gasoline, transistor radios, black and white television, rotary dial phones, and [...]
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14Nov
Silicon Valley and Amorality
Within recent memory, people respected those who achieved success through hard work. Similarly, not so long ago, cool was how we described those who could [...]
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14Nov
Fugunka Films on Luddite Online
The contemporary world may be described as the era of “isms.” Capitalism, communism, fascism, nationalism, idealism, nihilism, atheism, totalitarianism, [...]
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14Nov
Is there anybody out there?
Once upon a time not very long ago, in a place not very far from where you are standing right now, the world was a vast place full of wonder, mystery, [...]
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10Nov
War of the World
Not so very long ago, most people got their news and information from a limited and finite number of resources--the major newspapers,...
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10Nov
Lifelong Learning
Since the digital technology revolution, there has been an increasing trend toward a “reinvent-the-wheel” mindset,
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10Nov
Technology: Bad for the Brain
Technology, technology, technology....Science, nerds, geeks, IT, virtual reality.....Sometimes it seems there is nothing else to life and the world we live in...
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10Nov
Babette’s Feast
1987 was not so long ago, but technological development...
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10Nov
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Fight Club
Fight Club may be the most important film of the second half of the twentieth century...
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10Nov
Office Space
The ugliness and inescapability of life in our contemporary age of mediocrity,...
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10Nov
American Beauty
Pain. That seems to be the underlying theme of all pop culture artifacts...
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10Nov
His Clouds Are Made from Cornstarch
In collaboration with Groowinky.com,...
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09Nov
The Hands of a Pusher
One viewer said of this film, "In pagan Christian,...
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09Nov
Sideshow Chicken
Among other things, Groowinky produces, films, and releases short, independent movies...
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09Nov
Appalachian Music
The Smithsonian Institute has released the Classic Appalachian Blues,...
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09Nov
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Miles Davis Quintet Live
Miles Davis (1926-1991) is one of the most influential...
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09Nov
Baroque Music
The following video, from Patreon.com combines the elements of Baroque and Chamber music.
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09Nov
The Four Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons may be the most famous Baroque composition.
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09Nov
Journey to the End of the Night – Céline
Written by Louis-Ferdinand Céline and first published in 1932, this novel is regarded by many as the best expression of 20th Century consciousness and culture.
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09Nov
Moby Dick – Melville
Written in 1851 by Herman Melville, Moby Dick is regarded by many as the great American novel. Movies provide a great chance to escape the trap of [...]
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09Nov
The Holy Bible
Demographically, some have cited atheism as the fastest growing ideology in contemporary America. This may settle the question for many people why there is [...]
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16Oct
Pessimism
Pessimism is unnatural. I was recently discussing business opportunities with a local colleague who also owns and operates a small business.
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16Oct
Revisionist History and Cultural Cleansing
Finger-pointing and "The Blame Game" are the status quo, to some degree: determining guilt is often no easy task and is the reason every nation has its [...]
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16Oct
Deus Ex Machina: Literally!
Deus ex machina is a Latin phrase meaning "God from the machine," and has until recently been used almost exclusively to discuss literature.
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16Oct
Counter-intelligence, Hackers, etc.
The White House says Russia is behind a cyber-attack that breached the White House computer system. Edward Snowden is in Russia because he says the White [...]
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16Oct
Really….That’s not funny anymore…
What is so sad about the abuse of technology is not only how people have been dehumanized and reduced to button-pushing, pill-swallowing, automatons [...]
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16Oct
Devo!
Although there is a debate, it is fairly one-sided. There is no debate that the unasked for, unregulated, unsupervised, uncontrolled, and incomprehensibly [...]
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