Category: politics

• Angst Chapter One: Race

  

  What I learned during my grade school days in the 70s was anything but racist. In fact, the newly minted public education system, in an effort to make us “not racist,” introduced the concept of “racism” to us.

  rodzroom

  2020-06-22

  beer, communication, culture, media, politics

  comedy, creativity, culture, dissonance, freedom, love, mass communication, social media, writing

• 21st Century Communication Theory

  

  Parroting dramatic language on social media (and therefore, like it or not, in real life) is diminishing our motivation and—to some extent—our ability to choose precise words. The pool of original ideas based on self experience is slowly and subtly being replaced with words relating to how the experience of others is constantly communicated via…

  rodzroom

  2020-06-14

  beer, communication, culture, grammar, media, politics, semantics, video

  conformity, creativity, culture, dissonance, freedom, mass communication, social media, writing

• faith is not comfort

  the path toward attainment is fraught with doubt and loneliness. simplicity makes so little sense to those caught in opaque illusions. self mastery means changing one’s mind (often, at a certain level of detailed free thinking). this is mistaken for “being wrong” by most (rather than “growth of consciousness”). so they avoid honing their awareness.…

  rodzroom

  2020-06-13

  beer, culture, philly, politics, video

  conformity, folk, freedom, mass communication, newbold, philly, rock, singer-songwriter, social media, songs, writing

• Song: The Riot Pt. 1 (Liner Notes)

  

  I pray we can move past the contemporary racial narrative that Elites have so cynically crafted and delivered via media and academia during the past several decades.

  rodzroom

  2020-06-12

  beer, culture, fire with fire, music production, philly, politics, potential super hero theme songs, rodcast, song page

  blues, conformity, love, music, newbold, philly, singer-songwriter, social media, songs

• Song: Thought Cop 2084

  

  Being the enforcer of speech codes can be lonely in my as-yet-not-fully-imagined futuristic Orwellian musical. In this song, I assume the role of a police officer charged with finding and eradicating non-state-sponsored materials littering the landscape of communication.

  rodzroom

  2019-05-22

  beer, culture, music production, philly, politics, potential super hero theme songs, rodcast

  comedy, creativity, dissonance, mass communication, music, newbold, philly, podcast, rock, singer-songwriter, social media, writing