seanessay.com Although best-selling author Michael Lewis grew up before the age of internet outrage—which the public finds so attractive—he is willing, writer-wise, to “show not tell” outrageous things about Donald Trump, shortly before and after Trump took office. What a moron. Trump I mean, not Lewis. The US has a law that, between the November […]
A Farm Wife, a Banshee, and a Powerful Old Man
Yesterday is relevant again… My favourite Canadian National Film Board movie is a story only six or seven minutes long, in black and white—and it stabbed. Not a story for me to see at bed time, not unless I have a stiff drink at hand, not unless I want to stagger up out of a […]
Saving My Sister From Social Media
seanessay.com Am I my brother’s keeper? Below I have an article URL from today about a candidate for the US vice presidency, J.D. Vance, using social media. I wonder if there will ever be a time when society can face up to not even the horror of war, but merely the horror of social media […]
Beaming Down From the Essay ship to Fiction
seanessay.com It’s my blog anniversary, I’ve crafted 250 essays, hurray! Time to reflect. Why would a plain working-world guy like me write essays? And why do university student write them? In this exciting new decade, why wouldn’t we all just use Artificial “Intelligence” to write things for us? A retired professor’s blog, Orange Crate Art, […]
How Extremist Liberals Make Me Gnash My Teeth
seanessay.com I imagine an “Extremist Liberal” (not you or I) thinking the reason for the old 12-mile limit, for territorial waters, was that countries had calmly, from a sense of fairness, agreed on what would be a proper limit for lobster traps, fishing stocks and so forth—Nonsense! The range of a shore defence cannon was […]
A Human Blind Spot for Social Media, Reporters, and Trump
seanessay.com What a gift the gods would gee (give) us, To see ourselves as others see us Robbie Burns I believe, dear reader, that just as individuals can have blind spots, mental defences and denial, so too can communities and entire nations. In Britain, riots have continued for days, sparked by social media, while no […]