About the name of this blog:
The phrase Don’t Hear I Shout You! is a line from a FireSign Theatre comedy sketch, the skit where a character is going through customs in Turkey(?). The phrase has always stuck with me because it is the sort of sentence that you see and read it the way you expect it to read, ie, Don’t shout I hear you! , but then you realize it is something else, something else entirely.
Today in the US of A there is so much shouting going on. Little listening, much less effective communication. Thoughtful and respectful discourse is the exception not the rule, particularly in political arenas, blogs etc. This blog will comment on things in the headlines, or obscured, with an eye at the communication and semantics which work — or don’t, and the impact of this on us as individuals and as a society.
This love of the workings of human language, the interplay of thought and actions, and how words offer maps to reality (& vice versa), may have some effect on how this blog unfolds; but at least you’ve been forewarned. They don’t call me Obtuse for nothing…
PS: There once was a chronic pain blog at this URL but it’s been discontinued and deleted, perhaps to resurrect itself somewhere else. Please message me if you have a question about his Chronic Pain history.
