My Top 5 Stories

This is the work I am most passionate about; these are the ideas that are the most original and the most carefully worked out.

Clichés That Kill (Clichés 1.0)

This is a culmination of thought and the opening of a series of articles at the same time. In it I explore the thinking behind common clichés and the danger of letting them grow strong until they become a moral code we never intended. Somehow we find ourselves adhering to things we didn’t believe in, and ultimately spew them into the world when we become the elders. Above: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire ….. not a thinking person’s cliché.

2. American Savior

OK, I know it’s a 31-minute read, but it’s the purest example of my new genre, Speculative Sociology, where I do all the detailed research and then let the subject take flight into the stratosphere of history, pop culture, strange juxtapositions, sports, religion, sex, psychology …….. the focus is the 1980s, in a way, and the triad of Reagan/Stallone/Springsteen and the new Americana …… but from the ‘80s we expand in both directions, from the Revolutionary War to Rambo’s last ride (above) in 2019 ……. there is even an appearance by Sacheen Littlefeather, and reality blurs and we find ourselves ….. in 2020, and…