Tag Archives: Power

Private Government

Posted on June 16, 2019 by carilynn27

Private Government: How Employers Rule Over Our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk About It) By Elizabeth Anderson, 2017 Elizabeth Anderson gave a series of Tanner Lectures at Princeton University in 2014 on Political Philosophy. During these lectures she discussed … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, Politics/Economics | Tagged 1800s, 2014, 2017, Abraham Lincoln, Abuse, Adam Smith, Arbitrary Rules, Asylums, Back by Sanctions, Bill of Rights, Board of Directors, CEO, Chaos, Checks and Balances, Children, Churches, Communism, Corporations, Corruption, Democrats, Dictatorships, Difficulty Obtaining Child Care, Disrespect, Dress Code, Egalitarian, Elizabeth Anderson, Employees, Employers, Exclusive Rights, Exile, Facebook, Factories, Firing, Fraternizing, Fraud, Free Market, gulf between Employers and Employees, Harassment, Hospitals, How Employers Rule Over Our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk About It), Immigration, Individual Liberties, industry, Karl Marx, Libertarian, Lords, Management, Master's, Men, Modern Work Place, Monarchy, Monopolies, Monopoly, Oligarchy, Orphanages, OSHA, Patriarchy, Political Science, Politics, Poor Houses, Power, Princeton University, Private Government, Quitting, Republicans, Respect, Self-Employed, Slavery, Social Insurance, Tanner Lectures, Thomas Paine, Unequal Power Structure, Unions, Unpaid Domestic Labor, Unpredictable Scheduling, Unregulated Commons, US Government, Wage Earners, Wage Labor, Women | Leave a comment

The Haunting of Hill House 1959

Posted on October 16, 2018 by carilynn27

February 22, 1999 The Haunting of Hill House The Haunting of Hill House was a 1959 book by Shirley Jackson. Shirley Jackson was born December 14, 1914 in San Francisco. She had been reading and writing all her life. She … Continue reading →

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Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV | Tagged 1959, 1999, Abigail, Adventure, Agoraphobic, Angel, Angle, Are Some People Born Bad?, Arthur Parker, bed, Blood, Book, Burned House Down, California, changes, Children, Class, Cold, Cold Spot, Coldness, Crane, Crazy, Creative Writing Classes, Dare, Dark, deadly, Death, Demons, Depression, Disorted Views, Dr. Montague, Drinking, Driveway, Eleanora, England, Evil, Explore, Family Novels, Flaky, French Palace, Gates, Ghost Hunt, Ghost Stories, Gone, Good, Gothic, Gothic Literature, grace, Grief, Guilt, hand holding, Heaven and Hell, Help Eleanor Come Home, Henry James, horror, House, House Is Toying With Them, Hugh Crain, Imprints, In Love, Isolated, Journey's End When Lover's Meet, land decays, Luke, mansion, Markway, Married, mentally ill, mind creates physical manifestations, Mother's Death, Movie, Mrs. Dudley, Mystery Machine, Nancy Miller, Nell, Nelly, New York, Norville Rogers, Novel, Ominous, opressive, Oscar, OSU, Ouija Board, People Are Killed, poisonous plant, Poltergeists, Power, problems, Psychic, scared, scary noises, Scooby Doo, Scream, Screamed, Screaming, secretive, Seculuded, Shirley, Shirley Jackson, Sleep, Stanley Hymn, statues, STOP, storms, Suicide, Supernatural, Suspense, The Haunting 1963 Movie, The Haunting of Hill House, The Innocents, The Lottery, The Nursery, The Ohio State University, The Tower, The Turn of the Screw, Thelma, Theo, Trapped, trying to leave, Unexpected Evil in Life, USA, Villagers, Wake, Walk Alone, Winchester House, Won't Stay After Dark, Writing, Written on the Wall | Leave a comment

Why Nations Fail

Posted on July 9, 2017 by carilynn27

Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, 2012 The book applies insights from institutional economics, development economics and economic history to understand why nations develop differently, with some succeeding in the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, Politics/Economics | Tagged 1800s, 1900s, 2002, 2012, Agriculture, Arab Spring, Argentina, Blog, China, City-States, Colonies, Colonization, Daron Acemoglu, Destabilization, Developing Countries, Dictatorship, Dutch East India Trading Company, East India Trading Company, Economics, Egypt, England, Exclusive, Extractive, Fail, Fixed Elections, flounder, France, Freedom of the Press, French Revolution, Geography, Glorious Revolution, Government, Growth, Ignorance, Inclusive, industrial revolution, Italy, James A. Robinson, Japan, Journalists, Korea, Land Grants, Magna Carta, Maya, Mayans, Mexico, Monarchy, Monopolies, Mudracker, Negative Feedback, North Korea, Northern Hemisphere, Oligarchy, Parliament, Patents, Patriarchy, Peron, Peru, Poor Education, Positive Feedback, Power, President Karismov, Prosperity, prosperous, Rebound, Roosevelt, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Serfdom, Sierra Leon, Social Work Class, Somalia, South Korea, Southern Hemisphere, Soviet Union, Stagnant, Sub-Saharan, Tax Breaks For the Wealthy, Taxation, Taxing the Poor, The Black Plague, The New Deal, The Silk Road, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, thrive, UNCG, US Barons, USA, Uzbekistan, Venice, Vicious Circle, Virtuous Circle, Why Nations Fail, Wilson | 1 Comment

Silent Spring

Posted on June 8, 2017 by carilynn27

Silent Spring Rachel Carson, 1962 Silent Spring begins with a “fable for tomorrow” – a true story using a composite of examples drawn from many real communities where the use of DDT had caused damage to wildlife, birds, bees, agricultural … Continue reading →

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Posted in Biology, Culture, Environment, Event | Tagged 1960, 1962, 22nd Century, Air, beauty, Bill of Rights, Biology, bird-less, Bohemia, Bones, brush control, burning, California, cancer, carcinogens, Chemicals, Chimney Sweeps, choice, Coal, contact, Cornwall, cost, Coughing, DDT, Death, destroy non-human life, Destruction, diet, Disaster, dose, Dutch, Earth, Ecology, England, Environment, Environmental Movement, Fable For Tomorrow, Facts, farmers, Farms, fish-less, Fork in the Road, harm, Holland, Ill, Illinois, industrial revolution, industry, Inhalation, insects, lethal, lies, Life, Lung Cancer, Maine, marrow, Miners, Mines, Money, mosquitoes, Nature, Newspaper, not quite fatal, notes, Officals, Pesticides, Poison, Power, Preservation, profit, prophetic, Public, quotes, Rachel Carson, Radiation, rivers, Robert Frost, Saxony, Scientists, Sick, Silent Spring, Skin Cancer, Soot, species, streams, study, survive, Swallowing, Sweden, United States, US, Vision, Warfare, waterways, who gets to decide?, Who Speaks?, Why Do They Speak?, witness to nature, WWII | Leave a comment

Red And Orange Narcissus

Posted on May 22, 2017 by carilynn27

May 21, 2017 Red and Orange Narcissus Narcissism is named after the Greek Myth of Narcissus. Narcissus saw his own reflection in a pool and died because he refused to leave the pool. Poor Echo fell in love with him, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, History, News, Politics/Economics, Psychology | Tagged 1861, 1998, 2017, Adolf Hitler, ambassadors, Andrew Johnson, Anxiety, applaud, Appointed, Big Bully, Breech, bs, bureau, bureaucratic, Business Man, Campaign, CEO, Checks and Balances, CIA, Citizens, classfied intellegence, classified files, classified info, Collusion, Comey, Committee, conservative, Cover-Up, Criticism, crucify, damaged self-ego axis, declassify, Defend, Democrat, Depression, dignitaries, Director, disdain, disregard, Disrespect, doing his own thing, Donad Trump, Echo, eduction, Emails, Emperor Nero, empty, erosions, excessive need for admiration, Facts, Fail, fake media, Fame, FBI, Fear, Fired, Firing, Flower, fragile ego, Freud, Government, Great Fire, Greek Myth, help, Hillary Clinton, Historical Figures, House of Represenatives, Impeachment, Innocent Until Proven Guilty, intolerance to criticism, Investigation, Journalism, Journalist, Jung, Lack of Empathy, left, left-leaning, liberal, lied, lose, Majority, manifestation, media, meeting, MIddle Class, Monica Lewinsky, Narcissism, Narcissistic Personality Disorder, Narcissus, Nationwide Illness, New York Times, Nixon, No One Likes The USA, North Korea, NPD, Obama, Obstruction of Justice, Office, pass, perfect, plan, Poor, Power, precipice, Process, profit, profitable, Protocal, punished, Putin, Reality TV, Republican, Resigned, Rich, right, right-leaning, Rome, Rome Burned, Russia, School, self-absorbed, self-esteem, Selfish, Senate, Server, Sex, society, Sociopath, special, spoiled young adults, Star, support, The Washington Post, Theory, title 18, Tragedy, treason, Truth, Tyrany, Upper Class, US, USA, Watergate, Wealth, Whitehouse, WII, win, WWI | Leave a comment

Service

Posted on November 15, 2016 by carilynn27

November 15, 2016 Service “Service” is the name of this week’s The Walking Dead episode. I thought that the power struggle between Negan and Rick was a good subtext for the election this year and the subsequent fallout. Tuesday night … Continue reading →

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Posted in Movies/TV, Politics/Economics | Tagged Abraham, America, Big Bad Wolf, Big Picture, bigoted, Brutal, Canada, Carl, Conflict, conservative, Convergence, Discontent, Educated, Election, Fight, Glen, Government of Wolves, hope, idiot, Intolerent, liberal, Losses, loud mouthed, Lucille, Maggie, Michonne, Negan, Obama, Paralyzed, Peace, Peaceful, Polarization, Poor, Power, President, Protect, Protests, Psychological Warfare, Racism, Racist, Rick, Service, Sexism, Sexist, Subtext, The Hilltop, The Kingdom, The Saviors, The Walking Dead, Tolerance, Tolerant, Torture, Trump, Tyrant, Undermine, Uneducated | Leave a comment

The Feminist and the Cowboy

Posted on July 23, 2016 by carilynn27

The Feminist and the Cowboy Initially, I liked the memoir by Alisa Valdez entitled The Feminist and the Cowboy. It reminded me of my own relationship—although minus the drama. I related to Valdez being a Feminist like myself. Like Alisa … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, Feminism, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture | Tagged 50 Shades of Grey, Abandonment, Abusive, Alisa Valdez, Anais Nin, As You Like It, Asshole, Attitude, author, BDSM, Blog, Borderline Personality Disorder, Boyfriend, Cari Lynn Vaughn, Challenge, Cheater, Cheating, chidren, choice, Choices, Choose, consensual, conservative, Controlling, Country, Cowboy, Decentered, Desideratum. Sehnsecht, Dirty Woman's Social Club, Divorce, Dominate. Diary of a Submissive, Equal, Ethos, experience, Explore, Farm, Feminist, Forza Del Destino, Gnososis, Gun-toting, Healthy, help, In Dreams, Jerk, Justification, Kids, Liar, Libertarian, Logos, Lying, Master's Degree, Mean, Missouri, Mono No Aware, Mythos, New Mexico, Ohio, Panic, Pathos, Power, Protector, provider, Psychology, Role Playing, Shakespeare, Sociopath, Sous Rature, Stay at Home Mom, Stay At Home Mother, Submissive, Submit, Surrender, Sympathetic, The Feminist and the Cowboy, The Long Hot Summer, The Long Road, The Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, The World Is A Stage, Unhealthy, Wings of Desire, Women's Movement, Women's Studies, Working Mom, Working Mother | Leave a comment

Nuclear

Posted on February 5, 2016 by carilynn27

January 28, 2016 Nuclear The past couple of weeks have been nuclear in nature. I thought it fitting since I was writing about the natural nuclear explosion over Tunguska and watching the TV show Manhattan about the first Atomic Bomb. … Continue reading →

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Posted in Environment, Event, History, Movies/TV, Mythology, News, Politics/Economics, Science/Philosophy | Tagged 1949s, 1950s, 1960s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, Africa, Agony, Aliens, Anti-Nuclear, Army, astroid, Atlantis, badass, Bomb, Chernobyl, Cities of Gold, Classfied, Cold War, comet, Damage, Destruction, Disrespect, Don't Mess With The US, Edgar Cayce, Fat Man, Fission, Fukushima, Fussion, Hiroshima, Hiva Empire, horror, Idaho, India, Japan, Lemuria, Los Alamos, Manhattan Project, metetor, Nagasaki, Natural Nuclear Reactor, New Mexico, Nuclear, Nuclear Power Plans, Nuclear Reactor, Oko, Olmecs, Pakistan, Platonium, Power, Radiation, Radium, Russia, Tennessee, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Thin Man, Three Mile Island, Top Secret, Tunguska Explosion, US, US Government, War, Weapons, WWII | Leave a comment

The Fellowship of the Ring

Posted on January 20, 2015 by carilynn27

The Fellowship of The Ring I re- read The Fellowship of the Ring. I felt almost as if I had slipped back to Middle Earth, where magic was still alive and common place. Middle Earth, I realized, was Tolkien’s way … Continue reading →

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Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Lost | Tagged Aragorn, Banding Together, Battle, Corruption, Dark Age, darkness, Dwarves, Elves, Englightened Beings, Fantasy, Fear, Fiction, Fight, Frued, Good Storytelling, Greed, History, Hobits, Humankind, Humans, Ignorance, J.R.R. Tolkien, Jung, mankind, Men, Middle Earth, Movies, Mythology, Nature, Poverty, Power, Strider, The Fellowship of the Ring, War, Western World | Leave a comment

Dharma

Posted on November 30, 2014 by carilynn27

March 3, 2006 Dharma is destiny in a way. Destiny implies a destination. Dharma embodies a path, focusing on the journey instead of the end result or goal of a particular person. Destiny is a Hebrew God and keeper of … Continue reading →

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Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV, Religion | Tagged ability, Absence of Anger, Authentic Self, Buddhism, Control of the Senses, Create Our Own Destiny, Destiny, Dharma, Dharma Initiative, God, Hinduism, Honesty, Island, Karma, Knowledge, Learning, Lost, Meni, Patience, Place In This World, Power, Protection, Rightful Path, Sanctity, Spiritual Hunger, Strength, Suffering, Taoism, Truthfulness | 1 Comment

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