Born in a cardboard box, just like Mr. Bounderby from Hard Times, Rick Talbot survived on McDonald's leftovers found in the back of his gutter/home.
Now a blowhard shopkeeper, just like Dickens' Mr. Bumblechook (Great Expectations), Rick Talbot takes every opportunity for shameless self-promotion.
He has a tendency to dispense baseless insults without warning.
He likes pizza.
Education
Bachelor of Music (B.Mus)
University of Toronto, 2000
Areas of Study
- Music Theory (Major)
- Music History (Minor)
- Music Education
- English
- Religious Studies
- Ethnomusicology
Thoughts
There are many things which puzzle the will. Among the most pressing issues in today's post-meaning world:
- Overwhelming poverty of the majority of humanity.
- Increasing population growth.
- Depletion of world resources.
- Global environmental erosion.
- Failure of religion in 'post-meaning' times.
- Exceedingly savage nature of humanity.
- Growth of backward fundamentalist and exclusivist sects in Christianity, Islam, and Judaism.
- Remarkably simple and unevolved thoughts and habits of majority of people.
- Dominance of western culture, and loss of non-commercial cultures.
- Oppression and elimination of native peoples worldwide.
- Western tendency toward infantilization of the adult.
- Western promotion of id satisfaction - credit cards are a good example - at the expense of ego (character development). Related to infantilization.
- Western cultural post-decadence - slide into the glorification of the seven deadly sins, especially gluttony, envy, greed, sloth (laziness), and lust.
- Middle-Eastern and Eastern cultural fall to the sins of pride (vanity) and vengeance (anger/wrath).
How I deal with these things
There is a general inability of the lonely individual to cause change in any of the issues mentioned above.
I have therefore resorted to contemplation and writing.
My hope is that I will stir the tender sentiments of others, and so promote further contemplation, talk, writing, and action.
I do not specialize in any single discipline. The problems facing humanity are too great to be embraced within the paradigm of any profession or school of thought.
Theology, philosophy, psychology, and anthropology each offer some insight into the human condition. I am also interested in interdisciplinary pursuits such as Postcolonial Studies.
The end result of it all is some retarted poem or story. People will read it, most people will probably dislike it, some will enjoy it, and a few will think, evolve, and grow (although it sounds very arrogant for me to say so).
Also, check out Hegre Archives....