by Vincent McCaffrey | Jun 8, 2015 | Blog, Essays
In the foreword to his excellent and now near classic 1985 book Amusing Ourselves to Death, Neil Postman argues that it was Aldous Huxley and not George Orwell who recognized the greater danger to our modern society. “But in Huxley’s vision, no Big Brother is required...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Nov 22, 2014 | Blog, Essays
The American dream may not be what it once was, but it is still there. Entering small towns, from California to Maine, you may be struck by how similar they appear, displaying again and again the natural gallimaufry of a single culture that spans a continent. But this...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jan 23, 2013 | Blog, Essays
The matter is not that this place is now a Chipotle. The Old Corner Bookstore, as much as ‘Ye Olde Sweete Shoppe,’ was debauched generations ago and made to serve whatever interest was literally afoot at that moment in time. The iconic site, a beautiful...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Sep 29, 2012 | Blog, Essays
A recent calculation of the ‘big picture’ in cosmic theory has the universe pulsing in an endless series of entropic expansions and contractions. When things reach a certain maximum (minimum?) of composition and the black holes go ‘pop,’ and...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Jul 10, 2012 | Blog, Essays
The quiet you’ve heard from this place was just the sound of me lying low. For about a year and a half I have been writing ‘The knight’s tale, a novel of the future.’ And now it’s done. Though not quite the largest single work I’ve...
by Vincent McCaffrey | Nov 15, 2011 | Blog, Essays
Sitting in the cab of a small car, alone for many hours and over many days while traveling cross-country, will produce a lot of rethinking of old problems and the discovery of more than a few new ones. In that enclosed space, I have come to the not so subtle...
