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Picture Yourself Signing ASL, Level 1
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Oct 9, 2007by David W. BolesMechanized Morality
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Mother Narcissus
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Blog postWill our machines rule us, leave us behind, or take us with them? In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles holds a conversation with you about the nature, and the notion of -- "artificial" intelligence -- and what that means for the uneducated future of humanity in the moral core.
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Blog postHow do we know what we owe? In this Human Meme podcast episode, host David Boles defines, and separates, the courtesy from the policy; and the favor from the exception!
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Blog postAll our futures are carved by a history we did not live, and cannot share. There are some among us who are never able to recover from the trauma of childhood. Murder, death, illness, and sexual molestation, are all dark stars in the sky that look down upon us, and judge us for being unable to comprehend the constellation of their human conclusions.
What, then, do we make of the purposeful, if selfish, destruction of a vulnerable childhood — performed by a trusted adult expected to kno -
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Blog postWe believe we are living in the Golden Age of Democracy when we are really adrift in the Age of Acquiescence. In this Human Meme podcast episode, host David Boles examines the myths, and the meanings, of manipulating a divided electorate when it comes to convincing the other side to vote against their most sacred, and vested, interests.
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Blog postWhy have we programmed our children to take the easiest path? In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles questions the reasoning for the separation of aesthetics into "child" and "adult." Why don't we have one, universal, ideal of what is good and right?
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Blog postWhy do we always know life is good -- when it is too late? In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles asks why the Good Old Days are only always discovered as old and aged? Why are we unable to realize the Goodness in ourselves in real time?
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Blog postThere's nothing more annoying than a person who cannot celebrate the Art of Brevity while communicating. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles shares the significance of getting to the point by making your intention clear from the start. Have a plan. Be quick about it. Execute without delay or the exasperation of your subject!
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Blog postQuestions and Answers are never a fine format for knowing. In this Human Meme podcast episode, host David Boles parlays understanding into the realm of an education being found in the question -- and not the answer. The passing of wisdom is not passive, it must be dynamic to be effective; and parsing a question into an answer is like pressing a box into a circle; it may fit, but it shall not spin.
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Blog post1984 was an interesting time to be alive, because you felt, every day, as if you were living in the George Orwell novel of the same name. Reagan was president, and the world seemed to be collapsing around you — likely just as many of us feel today with another, repressive, Republican president. 1984 also happened to be the year I started writing for the Daily Nebraskan — the school newspaper for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I was a Sophomore in 1984, and I was writing a weekly, seriali
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Blog postHow many life-changing opportunities are offered in a lifetime? The answer is, "only one that matters." In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles asks how many of us are able to not only recognize the "once in a lifetime opportunity" -- but then also leap to accept it in total? Some language, NSFW.
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Blog post"This is not the world I wanted to leave for you." Those final words of Dr. Howard Stein still ring within all who knew him. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles considers the legacy of thought, and the embedded actions, others leave in their wake as they begrudge this world.
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Blog postA Script Professor is a Script Doctor! In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles shares the secrets of his career as a working Script Doctor for the past 30 years. What does it mean to fix someone else's work? What are the pinnacles? Where are the pitfalls?
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Blog postLabels matter to our children. Some online mothers give disparaging nicknames to their offspring. In this NSFW Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles wonders about the terrible names some mothers use to insult their kids through false terms of endearment.
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Blog postMy ophthalmologist is always excitable. She enjoys life. She’s an excellent MD. She knows I’m a writer, and a Script Doctor, and she makes bumping into her at her office to pick up my contact lens order, a real delight!
My doctor is also a Jersey City girl, born-and-bred, and she’s tough, and smart, and she knows the city well; and my doctor implored me to watch the new Netflix Seven Seconds cable series because it was about the city in which we spin.
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Blog postToo Long; Didn't Listen: No Agent Needed! In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles takes on the matter of entertainment representation. Do you need an agent? No! Do you need a manager? No! Do you need an attorney? Yes!
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Blog postBelieve in blood, not bytes. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles urges you to stop using PowerPoint to present ideas, and instead rely solely on yourself. Your body, and mind, are more than enough to engage other rhythms of beating hearts.
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Blog postEven in a highrise, there is social separation. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles divides our social strata floor-by-floor in an urban building to uncover all the ills of social memeing that still divide us straight from the center.
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Blog postWe manipulate the truth through persuasion. In this Human Meme episode, David Boles explores the horrible, psychological killer -- GASLIGHTING -- and its effect on the honor, and cogency, of a human community of minds.
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Blog postI’m sure you know the fable of the slow-boiled frog. If you drop a frog into a boiling pot of water, the frog will leap out to escape the heat. If, however, you place a frog in a pot of lukewarm water, and then slowly bring the pot to boil, the frog won’t sense the slow temperature change and will stay in the pot of rising, boiling water, until the frog is cooked, and dead.
The lesson of the boiled frog fable is that we are all susceptible to being stewed alive if we become too conten -
Blog postWe prefer to wallow in the together known, than wander into the wilderness alone. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles examines our need to not only travel back in time, but to actually relive what we experienced there, while forever escaping the future. If we find comfort in the repetition of aesthetic, then we must also accept the reality that we are no longer our experiences.
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Blog postMemory is all about perspective. In this Human Meme podcast, David Boles examines the trick of memory and storytelling. Who remembers, and what, defines the discovery of what really happened? Characters have a truth of their own that cannot be redefined later, by a deft and talented, outside hand. This is a story of the conflict of dramatic storytelling between mentor Marshall Jamison, and his protégé, master David Boles.
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Blog postWe may escape this world through the mind of our bodies. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles takes you on a guided journey into the float of Lucid Dreaming. Find the way to escape the now, and to live, and breathe, in any time, and in any place -- of your willful choosing.
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Blog postWe dream in the world, we live in a dreamscape. In this Human Meme podcast, David Boles reveals the secret moments of knowing the self, and of understanding the world, that only occur when we actively leave what we know to live in a dream state.
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Blog postI love a Gibson Custom Shop Les Paul guitar. The heavy guitar feels right in my hands. The strings vibration is nothing like any other guitar I’ve played. For the past decade, or so, I’ve collected four Les Pauls, and I reviewed two of them for you here: My valued ’57 Les Paul VOS and my beloved 56′ Goldtop.
In the image below, you can see all four of my Les Pauls, and the newest one, on the front left, is my 2018 Historic Collection 1959 Les Paul Standard “Dark Bo -
Blog postThe choice is within us, never outside our stars. In this Human Meme podcast, David Boles lashes together the intricate details of the options we have in life. Do we choose -- or are we picked? How many circles may we create without breaking our initial wisdom? The decision, even the false option, belongs only to us.
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Blog postThose who need to find you, shall find you! In this Human Meme podcast, David Boles delves into the memeingful moments of an author's life. Do you write to be read, or do you write to have written? In the examples of J.D. Salinger and Truman Capote, we search for the resonance of purpose, and the reasonableness of prestige in the darkness.
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Blog postIt’s been awhile since I posted a “Boles Blues” review of guitars, guitar amps and other musical gear. Two things were conspiring against me over that time. One, I injured my left wrist. That’s my “fretting” hand, so playing was difficult. The second conspiracy came in two parts, a couple of years apart: Floods! The first flood that hit my apartment came from three flights above and ruined half of my guitar collection. The second flood, two years later, arrived from the same burst pipe i
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Blog postThose who prepare to live -- also prepare to die! In this Human Meme podcast, host David Boles rallies to the cry of The Doomsday Prepper who is always scheming to die to survive; and, in some ways, so too, is the faithful Mormon family. What happens when those of us who are not Preppers, or Mormons, also survive the end of the world? Do we all share everything? Can you kill enough people who want to take the stuff you stored? These are the conundrums of modern living that will bite, and chew,
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Blog postEvery century, or so, we are all replaced! In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles wonders if we really understand how to manage our hundred year window on life, or if we waste ourselves, elusively, in the search for meaning in work, and in the hope of connecting with another.
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Blog postMechanized Morality is my free, insider, newsletter — and a faithful reader of that missive suggested I compress all the Mechanized Morality newsletter updates from 2016-2017 into a “Best of” book — just as I did last month for Boles Blogs, Vol. 8 (2017) — and, my friend, so I have!
Please find “Mechanized Morality” — the eBook! — now available for purchase and download from Amazon Kindle Direct publishing!
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Blog postVáclav Havel was a Playwright Head of State. In this Human Meme podcast, David Boles, finds delight in the life of Václav Havel, who spent a lifetime of learning to defeat Communism in Czechoslovakia, and who then became a democratically leader of the free world. A Liberal Arts education matters and has grand substance beyond the theoretical and the performance.
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Blog postLife is now about paying for access to the best people. In this Human Meme podcast, David Boles shares his realization that to be a fully propagated person, you have to pay to play. You pay the doctor to see you without insurance. You pay The Ivy League, not for just an education, but for access to knowing... people; and this is all the start of opening your wallet to buy your way into more than a middling life.
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Blog postWe cannot go home again, except to ghosts. We try to return to the living, but we fail because we are unable to recognize, from afar, what we once knew, is no longer. In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles steps us back in time to demonstrate how only those who escape, are able to know what was has been lost in the bones.
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Blog postA rolling Peter Stone gathers no moss -- nor constructive criticism! In this Human Meme podcast episode, David Boles shares a memory of Peter Stone and his -- "Rule of Threes" -- when it came to revising a Broadway show. Manipulation! Cruelty! Beauty! They're all here, waiting for your discovery as the core of the human, dramatic, condition!
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Blog postIt is our delight to announce that the immediate availability of our yearly eBook volume of collected blog articles — Best of David Boles, Blogs: Vol. 8 (2017) — is now ready for download from the Amazon Kindle store!
By purchasing this year’s latest volume of Boles Blogs, you are helping support our ongoing publishing mandate across all our writing properties.
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Blog postWe live to love, but we are only valued as beings for our data bits. In this Human Meme podcast episode, host David Boles examines how we fail to negotiate the important bytes of us when it comes to doing business in a charitable world built against us.
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Blog postGuillermo del Toro’s new movie — The Shape of Water — is a high-minded movie that looks great, sounds good, but ultimately fails to consecrate the point of the story: Communication Creates Love.
There are all sorts of movie tropes packed into the The Shape of Water — but the center of the swirling is a “mute” janitor, played by Sally Hawkins, who falls in love with a sea monster because they are able to communicate using American Sign Language; and that major flaw in discovery, reason -
Blog postHelicopter Parents believe their child's job interview belongs to them. In this Human Meme podcast, David Boles reveals the theory of the "hovering parent" who cannot let go -- and cut the apron and purse strings -- that will enable their child to live a free, and uninhibited, life away from them.
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Blog postWhat do we make of those born into wealth? Do we envy them? Or do we pity them? We have been taught to worship wealth, but how do those born into a bank account revere what they did not earn? In this Human Meme podcast, David Boles dives into the Trust dividend to fund those caught between the coattails of the dead.
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Blog post"Leave me in the garden." That's what David Boles told his UMDNJ Public Health Students to do with him after they refused to leave his dead body in the gutter. In this Human Meme podcast, we dig into the bones of us to discover what is really left behind in the coffin.
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Blog post"Mansplaining" is a gender-specific cudgel for punishment! In this Human Meme podcast, David Boles unravels the hoary definition of Mansplaining -- in the historic context of -- The Male Chauvinist Pig, the Nag, the Backseat Driver and I Love Lucy.
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Blog postDo we marry for love or a green card? That's the conundrum TLC presents us in their 90 Day Fiancé reality television series. In this Human Meme podcast, David Boles discovers love is always bound in money, and tied to the anchor of green card citizenship.
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Blog postA career is an interesting thing in comparison with a life. The career is temporary, but the life is both temporal, and temporary. The other day, for some reason, Ezra Stone was bothering my mind, as I tried to remember why he had contacted me so many years ago. I did a quick search of my Google Docs and his name popped up in a document titled — “David Boles’ Personal History” — dated December 13, 1994. That file turned out to be a wowser!
I am not sure why that document was originall
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