seanessay.com I worry about being “good enough” for meeting the writing standards of a mysterious “they,” the authorities in my head—and the standards of my harsh parents, who would today despise my academic clutter and my unmanageable piles of books that aren’t shiny, that don’t fit on my available shelves… As a schoolboy, when my […]
Fresh Anger at MRU Board of Governors
seanessay.com “To see is to like.” Sean, after regularly seeing unwed high school mothers on the bus INTRODUCTION At the university the various administrative offices are in a modest low building dating back to the founding of the campus, from before students rebelled, (a confederate rebel cap is in the trophy case) before the campus […]
On Human Capital, OR how the Mount Royal University board of governors Messed Up Royally.
seanessay.com (Time travel note: This story concerns when MRU was still MRC) The BBC once did a story on The Murder That Changed America. A young university student in Laramie, Wyoming, was “gay bashed,” as in beaten severely, tied to a fence, and left to die. His crime? Existing while gay. Question: Was MRC (Mount […]
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 […]