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Matthew Dunn
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Community college instructor in Los Angeles | sociology and cultural evolution | Go Kings Go | Let’s Go Dodgers
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ChatGPT hallucinated this chapter, but if it was real, it’s something I would love to read!
Chapter 7: “Ayn Rand in a Capuchin Suit”
July 12, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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When you’re at your first MLB game and Ohtani hits a home run.
A young boy in a Mookie Betts jersey doing the Ohtani celebration.
June 25, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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Friday afternoon in La Jolla.
A picture of an ocean landscape: In the foreground is a beer sitting on a bar rail. Behind the rail is a grass and dirt field that descends towards the Pacific Ocean. In the background is a view of La Jolla.
April 4, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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For Orrin E. Klapp life is a voyage where we sail back-and-forth between ritual and innovation, all while fighting a strong wind that blows us towards boredom and noise.
Book cover: Overload and Boredom - Essays on the Quality of Life in the Information Society by Orrin E. Klapp.
December 9, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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Orrin E. Klapp in Opening and Closing (1978), describing resonance as a response to the dizzying effects of modernity over three decades before Hartmut Rosa’s Resonance.
Resonance is seen in the phenomenon of two separate things vibrating together according to the same frequency. In physics it is conceived as a vibration of large amplitude resulting from an application of a forced vibration to a system, when the period of the force equals that of a natural vibration of the system. The notion is sometimes used to distinguish warm social relationships from those that are impersonal, plastic, alienating; being signified by colloquial expressions such as: "good vibes," "warmed up to," "sympathize with," "turned on." "heart-to-heart." "swinging" "engrossed," "en rapport," "we-feeling." I would define social resonance as mutual responsiveness of a warm sort among two or more persons, induced by signals, whether from an outside source or as feedback from the relationship, which actuates recall of valued parts of the memory and identity of each that can be shared - that is, good redundancy. For example, two persons might resonate from listening to a tune or from their own responses to one another. The main idea is that the goal of human communication is not merely transfer of information but responsiveness - resonance - reached through attunement and kept by good redundancy in feedback loops.
December 3, 2024 at 12:34 AM