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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
Totally true ... but it's the hypocrisy of the academics that get me. You commented regarding scientific method earlier and I assume that the people who are given the job of instructing need to be honest about what they don't know and what their biases are. Bias is fine, they just need to...- MikeKardec
- Post #166
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
That was my experience too and attitude too. In some way you can't blame them though, if they accepted the autodidact utterly (and there are drawback to self education) then all the time and moeny that went into their preparation for their job would be wasted. I think it is too bad that we've...- MikeKardec
- Post #165
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What are you Writing?
As a teen ager I remember hanging out with a friend who was a pretty good guitarist and a guy who was a country rock icon. My friend asked how to get to the next level in his playing. Country rocker dude says, "Well, I play scales four hours a day." Okay. Four hours a day, every day, for...- MikeKardec
- Post #68
- Forum: The Reading Room
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What sparked your fascination with the "Golden Era"?
I guess I was born into it. I never really noticed that suddenly I was interested. I had a older but very vigorous father ... he was born in 1908 and lived 'til 1988. He had a very active life and had many of the iconic experiences of this era; traveled with a circus when he was 15, merchant...- MikeKardec
- Post #256
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Collecting Vintage Trains....
I walked past their roundhouse just two weeks or so ago when I was in town for the holidays. The lights and the falling snow and the steam ... well, I wished I'd had my camera!- MikeKardec
- Post #18
- Forum: Your Vintage Home
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Vintage neon signs
Seriously. I'm about to pass out laughing at the name of this place!- MikeKardec
- Post #206
- Forum: The Golden Era
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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
Thread drift is both educational and amusing AND the discipline to stay on topic has it's own benefits. This is a good group of people, I enjoy it all. The place where education and our society really loses, and it's far from education's sole fault, is in finding a way to utilize and reinforce...- MikeKardec
- Post #154
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
I was in an acting class for quite awhile with a wonderful actor and comedian named Alanzo Boden, he's fairly popular on talk shows and the like. The two of us were the "old men" in the class but it was always wonderful to see what he would do with a scene and what he could pull out of some of...- MikeKardec
- Post #142
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
As one of the Minutia makers I must say I totally agree with you. My flame is a fog of ice. On the other hand, I assume we are all having a good time.- MikeKardec
- Post #140
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
I couldn't agree more. Much needs to be done and, if people would stop trying to turn it all into ammunition to use on one and other, I doubt it would really be that hard. Shotgun a good many ideas, honestly analyze their effectiveness of each but never ever choose just one way forward...- MikeKardec
- Post #138
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
Hmm. By Hollywood's civil wars I meant within the corporations themselves ... I'm not proofing myself!- MikeKardec
- Post #137
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
I have no opinion about the following except that I don't really like "Big Power" power players in sort of a theoretical, I see what they do but know I don't know all about it, sort of way ... but, now that you got me thinking about it, I have to assume that if you are an international influence...- MikeKardec
- Post #136
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
I agree. If circumstances hadn't created Hitler writer's would have. In fact the Third Reich is utterly surreal in what perfect caricature villains they were. In 100 years will anyone believe the philosophy and the costumes and all? If you want fictional bad guys they are just too good to be...- MikeKardec
- Post #133
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
Quite possibly, though I've always tried to not worry about those sort of people. I knew some of the old studio heads and still know some of that sort in the book world (they play in movies too but mostly in Europe) and I'm happy to say that what the do is above my pay grade. But they really...- MikeKardec
- Post #131
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
I could take us wildly off topic on the subject of TV writing! Let me just say that while the opportunities have increased in the last 30 years (the era in which I broke in, worked a bit, and then escaped that business) it's still a very small, interconnected/incestuous, world where the number...- MikeKardec
- Post #97
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
When I worked in the fiction magazine biz in the 1990s we still paid rates similar to what my father made when he was writing for the pulps in the 1940s ... it's no wonder writers don't care about doing short stories any more.- MikeKardec
- Post #95
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
It seems to me we've always had a mixture of either centeredness or fringe and media that the mix has ebbed and flowed over the years. In the heyday of narrow point of view journalism there were lots of papers each with their own take and, quite possibly people's interests were more specific to...- MikeKardec
- Post #91
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
All I know is my own experience. I live a reality where I can insulate myself from much of life but I do not have an existence where I can get away from things I don't like all that well. I'm also not highly motivated to unfriend the world I don't completely love because I have no tribe that...- MikeKardec
- Post #86
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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The Decaying Evolution of Education...
I like the idea of there being the safety to encounter and engage controversial things as opposed to the current vision of safety from controversial things. If a student doesn't like something they should be well trained to produce a devastatingly well reasoned response that communicates...- MikeKardec
- Post #80
- Forum: The Observation Bar
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What are you Writing?
Okay, here's more sage advice (snicker - I don't take myself too seriously and neither should anyone else): Butt in seat, write every day, the more you do it the more your unconscious will open to it. Your conscious mind creates the discipline and poses the questions, your unconscious...- MikeKardec
- Post #64
- Forum: The Reading Room
