Third Good Day - Vespers at St. Barnabas & Pointing To A Counterculture of Sanity

 Work was excruciatingly boring today. All the same, I got the same old backache.

When I came home, I communed with the heating pad that vibrates. Then I got a call about vespers tonight at St. Barnabas.

I did a final revision of a story while waiting for my ride to vespers. 

St. Barnabas looks good inside. It feels right for a church.

Back here, I finished The Third-Body Problem, sorted out my email, and started Carry On.

I got a rejection:

Thank you for sharing your work with us. We often have to turn down well-crafted writing, and while "The Unintended Consequences of Art" isn't quite right for our current needs, we appreciate the time and effort which goes into every submission we consider. Thank you for sending your work.

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Thanks again for sharing your work, and best of luck.

Sincerely,

Sequestrum

I also read a very long post by Ted Gioia from his The Honest Broker Substack - Why Gregory Bateson Matters; Or what a counterculture might look like in the 21st century. It is long, it is complicated, but I think it is worth reading if you are looking at the world and wondering what is going on.

As I consider the cumulative impact of Bateson’s wide-ranging vocations and experiences, I reach the conclusion that this polymath was the connecting node in the mid-century counterculture. As such, he is the single best person to give a large holistic expression to its ambitions and achievements.

More to the point, Bateson’s perspective is not only still relevant—something that can’t be said for many other gurus of that bygone day—but is perfectly attuned to the peculiar areas of dysfunction in our own time.

He deserves to be one of the leading thinkers of the digital age. In many ways, the Internet is the ideal case study for Bateson’s prescriptions. Those who want to launch a counterculture today (I’m one of them), do well to read his work.

There is a good case made that the internet has our world spiraling out of control, and we need a culture to balance out our society. 

And there I end the day.

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