Posted by Irene S. Roth on March 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment
We are currently on the cusp of the old world and a new cultural frontier. The present generation of parents were raised with the old values that led Americans and Canadians to the forefront of modern civilization. But are we currently going backwards as a culture and a civilization? The effect of media on our values is increasing and not for the better.
Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 18, 2009 · Leave a Comment
The Balloon Boy Bamboozle was busted wide open as a hoax after all and right out of the mouth of young Falcon Heene on Larry King Live. There were suspicions beforehand but when Falcon Heenie answered Wolf Blitzer’s question, on CNN’s Lary King Live, about why he hid so long by looking to his father and saying, “… you said we did it for the show” it wasn’t only his words that gave up the hoax but his father’s body language and fumbling around attempting to avert what Falcon had blurted out.
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Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Welcome to Dialectic Magazine. This is a new online magazine that will have a wide ranging focus on the endless interaction of conflicting ideas that make up the rich paradoxical nature of experience.
There are many types of paradox. In and through each and every paradox what is being sought after, found, processed, or realized is some measure of what is true. The more we can bring an awareness of what is true in our lives, what is authentic, the more we can enrich our intellectual, psychological, and spiritual experience of the here and now.
Articles, essays, interviews, poetry, prose, fiction and non-fiction will provide an eclectic blend of information, food for thought, and entertainment.
As Sir Frances Bacon once said, “Knowledge is power”.
Filed under DM · Tagged with Dialectic Magazine, life coaching, Mental Health, mindfulness, Paradox in life and culture, Personal Growth, philosophy, politics, pop culture, radical acceptance, religion, self development, technology, wellness, yin yang
Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Dialectic Magazine by nature of its mandate and mission has roots in being media itself. Media is a much more prolific presence in many forms. Nothwithstanding our status as a small part of what is considered to be media, we will be examining the role, influence, nature, and effects of media on how people feel about themselves and the world in which they live.
Posted by A.J. Mahari on October 4, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Dialectic Magazine will also have a significant focus on many aspects of culture. This includes the effects of pop culture on our everyday lives. Culture, according to its definition within anthropology is the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another. Culture also refers to sub-groups of like-minded individuals, for example, in the way that culture can be defined as the behaviors and beliefs characteristic of a particular social, ethnic, or age group: the youth culture or the drug culture.
