Extraordinary Discourse Podcast

Extraordinary Discourse 531

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 15:16:00 +0000

This’ll Dig Ya In The Intellectual Ribs

The real underlying currency of our world is not gold, nor bureaucratic fiat, nor even military might. The real underlying currency of our world is narrative, and the ability to control it. Everything always comes down to this one real currency. If you look at what all these think tanks, NGOs, media outlets and grant making networks that billionaires pour their money into actually do, it ultimately boils down to controlling the dominant stories that people tell about what’s going on in their world.
Caitlin Johnstone

Extraordinary Discourse 530

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sun, 04 Apr 2021 15:18:00 +0000

Flying In The Teeth

I want to go ahead of Father Time with a scythe of my own.
H. G. Wells

Extraordinary Discourse 529

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 15:55:00 +0000

Part Of This Garden Is The Real World

I dreamed of reality: what a relief to wake up.
Stanislaw Lec

Extraordinary Discourse 528

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sat, 20 Mar 2021 15:01:00 +0000

Morning. Wisdom Is At The Window

"Approfondissement"
is a French word
that means
"playing easily
in the deep."
Tom Robbins

Extraordinary Discourse 527

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 14:28:00 +0000

The Human And Inhuman Condition With Bonus Yelling

The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'
Robin Williams

Extraordinary Discourse 526

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sun, 07 Mar 2021 15:13:00 +0000

Talking It Over, Getting It Across

From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme.
Jhumpa Lahiri

Extraordinary Discourse 525

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sun, 28 Feb 2021 16:19:00 +0000

Glimpses And Highlights Meet On A Train

There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.
Walter Murch

Extraordinary Discourse 524

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sun, 21 Feb 2021 15:52:00 +0000

This Instead

Few people have the imagination for reality.
Goethe

Extraordinary Discourse 523

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sat, 13 Feb 2021 19:14:00 +0000

From The Funny To The Very Serious

I've learned quite a lot, over the years, by avoiding what I was supposed to be learning.
Margaret Atwood

Extraordinary Discourse 522

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sat, 06 Feb 2021 17:11:00 +0000

Deep Air Quotes

You can't change who you are, but you can change what you have in your head, you can refresh what you're thinking about, you can put some fresh air in your brain.
Ernesto Bertarelli

Extraordinary Discourse 521

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sat, 30 Jan 2021 16:41:00 +0000

All The Time In The World For The Small Stuff

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.
Virginia Woolf

Extraordinary Discourse 520

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sun, 24 Jan 2021 14:33:00 +0000

Morning at the Enantiodrome

Extraordinary Discourse 519

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sun, 17 Jan 2021 14:57:00 +0000

New Morning Train Of Thought

Creativity is that marvelous capacity to grasp mutually distinct realities and draw a spark from their juxtaposition.
Max Ernst

Extraordinary Discourse 518

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 17:00:00 +0000

Trophies From A Voice Hunt

To research this You’re Not Listening, I interviewed people of all ages, races, and social strata, experts and non-experts, about listening. Among the questions I asked was: “Who listens to you?” Almost without exception, what followed was a pause. Hesitation. The lucky ones could come up with one or two people, usually a spouse or maybe a parent, best friend, or sibling. But many said, if they were honest, they didn’t feel like they had anyone who truly listened to them, even those who were married or claimed a vast network of friends and colleagues. Others said they talked to therapists, life coaches, hairdressers, and even astrologers—that is, they paid to be listened to. A few said they went to their pastor or rabbi, but only in a crisis.
Has Listening Become a Lost Art?
Kate Murphy

Extraordinary Discourse 517

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Fri, 01 Jan 2021 17:38:00 +0000

A Path For Metanoiacs

...the lapis [philosopher's stone] is not just a 'stone'... the philosopher... says "the wind hath carried it in its belly.” Therefore "wind is air, air is life, and life is soul."
Jung, Psychology And Alchemy

Extraordinary Discourse 516

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 17:38:00 +0000

Dabhar Kaizen

The root verb דָּבַר dâbhar "to speak" (Strong's #1696, x1143) gives rise to דָּבָר dâbhâr "word" (Strong's #1697, x1441) which means both the 'word' itself and its accompanying creative 'act' and takes some 85 different English words in the KJV to translate its range of meaning including 'power', 'purpose', 'book', 'provision', 'reason', 'work', 'matter', 'thing', 'cause' or 'commandment' (e.g., the 10 commandments or 10 words, Exodus 34:28; Deuteronomy 4:13; 10:4), it could be a written report, single utterance, whole book, or prophetic message.

Kaizen is a concept referring to business activities that continuously improve all functions and involve all employees from the CEO to the assembly line workers. Kaizen (改善)（かいぜん） is the Sino-Japanese word for "improvement". Kaizen also applies to processes, such as purchasing and logistics, that cross organizational boundaries into the supply chain.[1] It has been applied in healthcare,[2] psychotherapy,[3] life coaching, government, and banki

Extraordinary Discourse 515

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 16:22:00 +0000

Geniuses In My Junk Drawer

Here's to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They're not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can praise them, disagree with them, quote them, disbelieve them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can't do is ignore them. Because they change things. They invent. They imagine. They heal. They explore. They create. They inspire. They push the human race forward. Maybe they have to be crazy. How else can you stare at an empty canvas and see a work of art? Or sit in silence and hear a song that’s never been written? Or gaze at a red planet and see a laboratory on wheels? While some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do...
Jack Kerouac

Extraordinary Discourse 514

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Fri, 18 Dec 2020 21:09:00 +0000

If You Were an Imaginative Kid with Stupid Teachers…

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.
Albert Einstein

Extraordinary Discourse 513

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sat, 05 Dec 2020 16:18:00 +0000

Wow! These Ideas!

Daring ideas are like chessmen moved forward. They may be beaten, but they may start a winning game.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Extraordinary Discourse 512

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sat, 28 Nov 2020 21:43:00 +0000

Context Matters

Life does not change if you only modify the content, your life will change if you will dare to alter the context.
Santosh Kalwar

Extraordinary Discourse 511

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sat, 21 Nov 2020 17:24:00 +0000

Free Loot From An Escapee ~~neo~~Liberal Artist’s Cave

...the unrecorded life disappears as if it never existed.
Iris Chang

Extraordinary Discourse 510

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sat, 14 Nov 2020 15:32:00 +0000

Happy Path Up: Résultats

Je ne cherche pas, je trouve.

Picasso

The World Owes You A Living 2

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Thu, 12 Nov 2020 19:18:00 +0000

The World Owes You A Living 2

"Come on, work, work!" This episode, the second in the World Owes You A Living Suite, leads us merrily/martially through the "good news" net of "low unemployment figures" to the front lines of commodity labor in our time. It shows how we are "trained" to obedience and conformity. US middle class a 1950s gov't initiative, Funding finding hate in the Cold War Career. Unprecedented numbers (sic) found frozen among their new fridges and freezers.

Extraordinary Discourse 509

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sat, 07 Nov 2020 15:38:00 +0000

Parade of Glimpses

Stories cannot demolish frontiers, but they can punch holes in our mental walls, and through those holes we can get a glimpse of the other and sometimes even like what we see.
Elif Safak

Extraordinary Discourse 508

jacksaturday@telus.net (Jack Saturday) — Sun, 01 Nov 2020 13:49:00 +0000

Paths and Ladders

In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
Carl Jung