Author Archives: Steven Scherling

When working on the Black Swan Trump blog entry,  I had an interesting experience and wrote: “I want to relate an “experience” I had with a real black swan bird on December 28, 2016 as I drove to Minneapolis. I … Continue reading →

A previous DAMBlog Trump Ode to Joy, examined how Beethoven’s Ode to Joy has been used by central-control, authoritarian, leaders to represent their regimes – the suggestion is that we watch to see if Trump makes use this Beethoven’s music … Continue reading →

Fargo’s High Plains Read weekly took two weeks off over the holidays and when I picked up a free copy of the last issue for 2016, I spent over an hour reading and sinking into its art work. Editor and … Continue reading →

All watched over by machines of loving grace is a three-part Adam Curtis series that examines the idea of rationality and how it has and still is affecting civilization. Curtis’s approach, as always, identifies a thesis and builds a case … Continue reading →

I am now listening to Beethoven’s Ode to Joy, as Michael Lewis describes listening to his favorite music when he writes – this habit activates both sides of the brain. Heaven knows, I need all the help I can get? … Continue reading →

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Like a majority of Americans, I was expecting Donald Trump not to be elected President and was anticipating moving on to other blogging topics. However, like the SNL series on Trump, the nightmare continues. In the latest SNL Dec 4, … Continue reading →

I have been watching Adam Curtis’s BBC documentaries for years and his latest one, Hyper Normalisation, re-cycles some of his past work with a new lens extending past contents into the present. In this documentary, Curtis traces our unfolding never-ending … Continue reading →

The 2016 US Presidential Election is history and Donald J. Trump won! Many in the World did not “see” this coming and are now working through their shock.  A classmate told us to take a breath, well it took me … Continue reading →

Slowly we are trying to get back to a new normal – here is my attempt.  I have put together a few video clips that I have been working with this year. They begin with Mandelbrot’s fractals the  the math … Continue reading →