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Although I profoundly disagree, let’s start with Protagoras, who said it first, and said it cleanly:Man is the measure of all things.He said this in the fifth century BCE, in Athens, in what we might now call a seminar room, and Plato spent a good part of his career trying to talk him back off the ledge. The argument Protagoras was making — that truth is perspectival, that what is true for you may not be true for me, that there is no fixed point outside human perception from which reality can…
Some might think this is a little thing, but the truth is that it is not. And I know that unless I write it down I will carry it around for hours if not days.Earlier today I received an unsolicited phone call purportedly (and I will come back to this distinction later) from my internet and cable service provider. My household has been purchasing services from this company (let’s call them Company R) since 1987 – yes THIRTY-NINE years. At one point we had 3 cell phones, 2 cable TV packages and 2…
What connects cross-dressing sex workers, three embattled groups of nuns and monks, soldiers, a roller skating rink, feral cats, lucertole (lizards), a bridge of many names and the sea women of a river?This is an attempt to explore these odd but real connections.Bartolomeo Coghetto detto Medoro (1707-1793). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. The author's apartment was located at the site of the building on the left, and the sex workers congregated toward the right.During the mid 1970s I…
