{"id":332,"date":"2017-09-16T15:41:14","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T23:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=332"},"modified":"2017-09-16T15:41:14","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T23:41:14","slug":"noteworthy-number-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/noteworthy-number-2\/","title":{"rendered":"NOTEWORTHY Number 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

NOTEWORTHY<\/span>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Number 2 \u2014 September 16, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n

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For sustained inventiveness and sheer genius, it is hard to beat China Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s 2010 novel, Kraken: An Anatomy<\/em><\/strong>[1]<\/a>. Based on old Norse legends, Tennyson\u2019s famous poem (\u201cThe Kraken\u201d), John Wyndam\u2019s[2]<\/a> \u00a0novel, The Kraken Wakes<\/em>, and other such sources, it is a useful work in relation to my dream (see \u201cLamentation in Three Parts\u201d at http:\/\/ralockhart.com\/WP\/?p=133<\/a>) that speaks to a final<\/em> Ragnar\u00f6k Here is a sample: And after? Nothing. Not a phoenix age, not a kingdom of ash, not a new Eden. This time, for the first time, in a way that no threatened end had ushered in before, there was no post-after. <\/em>(p.272).<\/p>\n

A good follow-up study to Nancy MacLean\u2019s Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right\u2019s Stealth Plan for America<\/em>, is Joshua Green\u2019s Devils Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency.[3]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve been immersed in the book based on the exhibit of Mir\u00f3\u2019s paintings during the period from 1917-1934.[4]<\/a> I was prompted in this direction by an article decrying the loss of unsupervised play in children. It is the unsupervised <\/em>play that is crucial to the development of the imagination.<\/em> Many of the spearheads of the development of modern art may be thought of as adolescents rebelling against the parents (representational art): manifestos, intentional destruction, and all manner of such and it worked! A new form of art was born. But Mir\u00f3 went at it differently. He went backward<\/em> into childhood and recaptured an extraordinary sense of play. This I think may become more and more necessary in the times ahead as paradoxical as that may seem. The exhibit was called, La Naissance du Monde. The Birth of the World.<\/em><\/p>\n

Next month will see the publication of the first of three volumes in a new series entitled, Jung\u2019s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul Under Postmodern Conditions. <\/em>The series is edited by Murray Stein and Thomas Arzt and published by Chiron Publications. My essay, entitled \u201cAppassionato for the Imagination,\u201d will be in this first volume. The title came to me in a dream. For a description of the volume and the list of essay titles and contributors, go to http:\/\/chironpublications.com\/shop\/jungs-red-book-time-searching-soul-postmodern-conditions-vol-1\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Numerous studies reveal that reading<\/em> and particularly, reading fiction,<\/em> has a powerful effect on the brain producing remarkable increases in cognitive function, emotional intelligence, and empathy. One of the scary things about technological \u201cprogress,\u201d is that as more and more children become addicted to \u201csmart\u201d phones, it is not making the children smarter. Recent studies are showing that one-quarter of American children do not learn to read by the time they are teens and the smartphone addiction becomes more intense. Watch for headlines about the increasing mental health problems of teens stemming from being tethered to technology. What can possibly be done about this?<\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Mi\u00e9Ville, China. Kraken: An Anatomy.<\/em> New York: Ballantine Books, 010.<\/p>\n

[2]<\/a> John Wyndham was Jung\u2019s favorite fiction author.<\/p>\n

[3]<\/a> Green, Joshua. Devils Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency.<\/em> New York: Penguin Press, 2017.<\/p>\n

[4]<\/a> Mir\u00f3, Joan 1917-1934. London: Paul Holberton Publishing, 2004.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NOTEWORTHY\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Number 2 \u2014 September 16, 2017 \u00a0 For sustained inventiveness and sheer genius, it is hard to beat China Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s 2010 novel, Kraken: An Anatomy[1]. Based on old Norse legends, Tennyson\u2019s famous poem (\u201cThe Kraken\u201d), John Wyndam\u2019s[2] \u00a0novel, The Kraken Wakes, and other such sources, it is a useful work in relation to my […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coming-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralockhart.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}