Danny McAteer

Uncommon Lessons from a Year Abroad

Insights from an American in Germany

A Common Sense Analysis of Climate Change

Option A: Climate change is real, is being caused by humans, and we do nothing to mitigate it.

Pros: We bring back around 10,000 coal jobs. Oil companies continue to get rich.

Divided

The creative, innovative side of humanity needs the structured side. Creativity without structure is too chaotic to be understood. Music needs to have a melody, otherwise it’s just noise. Structure without creativity becomes dead and hardened. Live exclusively from either side, and you’re a cyclops. You’re…

Zeitgeist

Not a documentary about the Twin Towers.

I was thinking about the word “zeitgeist” on the train today. It’s a good word. It points to something hard to define. Zeitgeist is German, and literally translated it means “Time Ghost.” I would translate it as, “the…