Center for Strategic Communication

Four angles plus one on reading Trump

by | Jul 31, 2016 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — on the need for an analytic open mind — or hedging one’s bets? ] . I suppose we have to start with Trumpian Fundamentalism — by wbich I mean, taking the literal meaning from whatever he says. This view is simple, even...

Whole lot of DoubleQuoting going on..

by | Jul 29, 2016 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — compare & contrast is a very basic mental practice, and one I’d like to sharpen into the cognitive tool or mental app I term DoubleQuotes ] . This may well be the most significant DoubleTweet of the day — the very fact of...

Jabhat breaks from al-Qaida

by | Jul 28, 2016 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — and al-Jolani is dressed to kill ] . An insightful DoubleQuote in the Wild: Abu Muhammad al-Jolani's new outfit is clearly intended to reflect Osama bin Laden's. Not Baghdadi's black outfit pic.twitter.com/W82WdVKQdn —...

A trumpet voice above Trump’s

by | Jul 25, 2016 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — for those wishing for discourse above the political fray ] . Yesterday, Sunday, I was going to post a “Sunday surprise” about a voice that transcends that of Donald Trump — the voice of Alison Balsom, trumpeter...

Nesting Buddhas and insubstantiality

by | Jul 25, 2016 | Monitor

[ by Charles Cameron — from the Buddha’s Diamond Sutra via matrioshka dolls and koans to Sun Tzu and Wittgenstein ] . From Karl Brunnhölz, The Heart Sutra Will Change You Forever, in today’s Lion’s Roar: Besides being a meditation manual, we...