Sunday, September 2, 2007

invitation to stunning originality

With the whole world now at liberty to pick over this minimus opus, I can issue an invitation to the masses to post the craziest thoughts and theories imaginable in my "comments" section, or answer questions for the ages :

* Why is religious belief so durable, especially the commanding influence of Christianity on European and American history for the last 1700 years?

* Do you believe in historical "progress," or is modern history just a depressing series of cycles and repetitions?

* What are the great challenges of our age? Global warming? Asymmetric warfare and technological trends that make WMDs ever more easily available? The flagging career of Hall & Oates?

Thx,
Tommy

1 comment:

aram shumavon said...

I am pretty sure it is going to take a lot more than the comment space to answer all those questions, so let me start with an easy one: as a recent blogging expert on hall and oats (that and I just played them outloud in my corner of new cubistan) - I think they are coming back. huge like. not just indian casino huge, like getting 20 year old producers to remix their greatest hits huge.

as for progress, well, more on that later...