Published March 1, 2017 in Warp & Woof How Did Cars Become Totems for Advanced Industrial Civilization? Personal experience from mid-century America William Sundwick Origins It started in Germany. When Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz, acquaintances from a start-up engineering firm, invented a light-weight internal combustion engine (ICE in today’s parlance), they apparently realized thatContinue reading “How Did Cars Become Totems for Advanced Industrial Civilization?”
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Link from Autoblog
Silcon Valley getting cold feet about this car making business? Don’t worry, there’s still the Big Data side of auto informatics …
Link from Scientific American
Some science behind political polarization, and manipulation …
Link from Vox
McMasters has a very Clausewitzian view of strategy. It may still be a bit harsh; but, at least it has a firmer grounding in history than the world view of the totally unhinged Bannon!
Link from Vox
Unaware of economic facts, as usual, Trump claims China currency manipulation going in opposite direction from what it has been doing for last two years
Link from Chrysler — first post ever for Totems
First post for “Totems” page: 33 mi. all-electric range, almost as good as my Chevy Volt … the plug-in hybrid Chrysler Pacifica
Early Political Links, 2017
Defense of the “deep state” … the “shallow state” of Donald Trump is far worse! An underground railroad, Rapid Response Teams …
Apologia to Erik Erikson
Published February 23, 2017 in Warp & Woof Apologia to Erik Erikson William Sundwick Yes, Erikson’s Eight stages of psychosocial development does have a sort of poetic elegance, as I wrote two weeks ago in this blog, but I fear I was in over my head. My ground rules for Warp & Woof specified thatContinue reading “Apologia to Erik Erikson”
Early Links, 2017
Hard to imagine U.S. not participating in worldwide shift to EVs over next several years, but that seems to be exactly what Trump administration has in mind! American workers, as well as planet, will only be worse off as result … Michael Moore’s 10-point plan — I especially like the idea of “Rapid Response Teams”
Link from New York Times
Sometimes, it’s the old guys who are needed to get the job done. Here is a case illustrating Erik Erikson’s batle between “ego integrity” and “despair”. This Texas PBS commentator was 70 years old, not worried about job security, only about personal integrity!
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