tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-71540567015198717082024-03-18T20:06:58.070-07:00CONTEMPORARY HISTORYRoundtable comparison of historical precedents with The Hammer and Cycle Messenger Service novelist, Charles M. Fraser. author - Charles M. Fraserhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11022427771580229209noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7154056701519871708.post-17731728995142305212015-10-16T12:30:00.000-07:002017-12-28T17:30:54.976-08:00 Welcome First Class <div class="yiv2151959010" dir="ltr" id="yiv2151959010yui_3_16_0_1_1423085820972_2462">
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">"Good afternoon" </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I said sounding </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">attentive by not mumbling. But hustling in. S</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">till </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">staring past everyone out the window. T</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">emporarily skipping the face greeting ritual. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Distractedly satisfied by my hour or so twelve mile commute. Where ideas would be ground down by my pedaling churning the mind's equally strategic day launching calisthenics. Coffee for a good deal of us and why others energize hooked up to stationary machines. While outside,</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">once discovered, and </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">even in inclement weather,</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">a destinational rhythm unbinds the speculative intellect. Or not. Like a good walk.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Spending this long on my own bearings is not the best start so I plopped </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">on my desk </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">dangling my legs for the class. Too comfortably close. Yet inspired by the pressure to establish a familiarity since the course wasn't a lecture. And, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">intentionally, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">the physical activity </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">loosened me up. As if the exertion itself caused my recalling our professors' examples. How ensconced behind their office desks, utilized by students, or not, the job was specifically about being there for them. Office hours. Which even sounds way too easy since t</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">eaching's just sharing what your credentials allow. L</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">ess difficult than true entertainment </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">of any extended length of time? L</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">ike say the mesmerizing pleasure of </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">a video game or intensely gratifying film or committee crafted spontaneous Ted Talk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Needing to speak up and avoid the ridiculous clichés my head swam in, I said, "R</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">eally." Then began with an embellishment. An exaggeration? "Any class is the responsibility of a president. An audience of any kind a big deal. But Academia is a special royalty of its own. School is society's serious side. Perfection. Except there's the popular notion every-day normal people are separated from intellectuals by an ivory tower. A convenient political excuse for all intents and purposes shading imagery. Universities are where lives are watched after and theorized on whether students' paths are too cluttered to understand a word of what's repeated in class. I" grinned and "am personally surprised by the attention and comforted by eyes rolled in disbelief."</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I laughed too. Nervously. Leadership. Till now all complaint. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I sighed. Wondered if anyone even read </span><a href="http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-real/on-writing-from-the-brain-to-the-page" style="font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(204, 102, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #cc6600;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">The Journey Writing </span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(204, 102, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; color: #cc6600;"><span style="color: #b45f06;">The Hammer and Cycle</span></span></a><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">, in</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"> <a href="http://www.quailbellmagazine.com/the-real/on-writing-from-the-brain-to-the-page">Quail Bell Magazine</a>, for theories why my </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">sarcastic experience with repetitive sloganeering i</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">s worth consulting. P</span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">eeling apart language's distorted disengagement of each new modern era from history's far-from-complete, but nadir reaching, over, evolution. Corrupting the contemporary soul. </span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(204, 102, 0); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">I tried again calmly staring into the light from the windows. Then took to the floor pacing and confessed. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">"Rejecting the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">parking lots of Academia </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">thirty-four years ago. Riding here for the first time today, this morning. I was g</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">reeted by the same immobile silence as when I drifted away. Daring myself to be a novelist whose rigorous demands precluded an academic's ardent pursuit.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> Plus the fact is I'm just too shy to have seen myself speaking before groups on any basis. Standing here would be a miracle. So please bear with my getting over the shock. Because ever since Al Gore discovered global warming,</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> I'd had to recognize the world's parking lots are just the best use of our short-term commercial abilities to which even universities are not immune. But cars are great. Delivering us from physical drudgery. And t</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">he pervasiveness of the </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Mobile Throne </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">is not the Chariot's fault. Luxury is intoxicating. But I'd miss a car more if, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">in my opinion, </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">the bicycle weren't really the absolute right thing to do." Pause. "And the safety issue breaks my heart. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I blinked. "Pivotal to my imagining the world of the hammer and cycle was</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">reading Voltaire's </span><i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Candide</span></i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"> at nineteen. The simple character and theme of searching for 'the best of all possible worlds' was literally worth replicating. A literary nugget expressing what's nuts isn't utopia but all the crap in the way. While paradise for a lot of us is scared to death of ourselves." And didn't mumble, "New York City Police Commissioner Bratton recently said criminals will always be with us. Hopefully no longer the result of the Criminal Enterprise System at least. And I'm editorializing. What's expected from ya'll," I winked. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Then paused at my desk's short-podium, and turned to the enormous blank wall-screen</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> behind me </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">to avoid eyeballing any individuals. But smiling, said, "Originally the idea for this course is each student slices up three minutes of current events exposing precedents learned in your other history courses. For whole class discussion. Also don't allow t</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">his class to compete with your others. It's not debate club where someone wins. This is a grade-less elective for seeing what happens. If lucky</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;"> </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">while drying out the rhetoric, intriguing questions will </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">pose as answers</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">. And s</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">urely something contemporary straight out of medieval history haunts us today. Right? Such as the Holy Bible's gay bias and slavery for instance. And that 'vanquish the enemy' illusion as well.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue";"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">I thought about windows again trodding on. Lamenting "</span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">The Chinese made solar panels so cheap they're not expensive enough to make real dough. T</span>he<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> vaunted hard won nickel </span>made it so an ecological transition is still not quite happening. Poor excuse when you consider how creative we're supposed to be. How many awards we hand each other on a seemingly daily basis. And, to lay the irony thick, September 22nd the Associated Press announced climate change deniers are now doubters. What bloody difference does it make when we've made such a mess anyway? This is the land of confusion. Next the oil industry might prod telephone call centers into badgering the public to buy solar so everyone can hate being bothered by the details even more. Whole states prop up coal because they can't make money any other way. Consumers live there so it's really our economic perspective that needs broadening. I believe the current Bush in the news pressing that welfare button is being cute once again. Because really. Who's been given more than the Bushes? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue";">"Oops. Oh well. Kicked out my first day? Let's pretend my annoying speech wasn't what I meant. Okay?" They weren't but I laughed, nervously. </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue";">"Kids keep quiet? Denial sounds just like a politician, right? Look at me sticking my neck out exploiting their family name recognition. At least I'm not claiming God told me it was okay to play Armageddon in the Middle East when everything, about all of it, is pure jingoism. Utter nonsense. W</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: x-large;">e're tragically not that creative despite all our discoveries. Wallowing in successful success. Building walls refining the art of a privileged elite passively aggressively tolerant of led, bled belligerently ungrateful dopes." </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">I smiled. "No, not socialist. Utilitarian, registered Republican.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #141923;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(20, 25, 35); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">"As stagnantly played out the conservative vs. liberal political model is </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(20, 25, 35);">not much </span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;">more </span>than<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: initial;"> a game of ping-pong</span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #141923;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">. </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Defining either's political view as a narrow warped sense of righteousness. Intellectually lazy and not at all what the public could understand but what's simple to sell. Get used to it. Capitalism was always a form of socialism while socialism's capitalist too. What's happening is c</span></span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">onfusing power's gloss over h</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">istory with what's supposedly a frivolously smudged cultural landscape. Producing blind obedience as the hallmark of a patriotically loyal lapdog </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">public unwilling to </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">face their own ruthlessness." </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Bike Shops are the backbone of bicycling's heritage. My father, Malcolm C. Fraser mechanicked a year as the 19th developed into the 20th Century. Inspiring a deep feeling for the shameful nuanced carving of public opinion as if it just took soap?</span></div>
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