L. Frank Baum's book, as most would know, wrote "The Wizard of Oz" and then a series of books built around Dorothy Gale and her visits to the Land of Oz. In the 1939 movie, the visit was brief and actually just a dream. In the book, the initial visit lasted close to two months, …
Tag: culture shock
Eschewing Power
Okay, so I was watching this guy on TV. He was some sort of talking head type guy on Fox News. (Disclaimer... I have no idea who this guy is. I really don't watch Fox News. I mean, I live in Asia--- so why would I?) He was telling a story about some town in …
Unending Culture Shock
In our time we have been uprooted from our former homeland, adrift in a mobile and changing society. We are lonely in crowds who seem not to care, pushed to and from by machines to serve and be served, until we too become mechanical and act like machines. We meet the other persons as strangers, …