Barry Clemson: Who Will Use Place4Us Virtual Community Centers

Who Will Use Place4us Virtual Community Centers

Barry Clemson March 20, 2025

Introduction

I want to think about who will use Place4Us Virtual Community Centers … what sort of person will be our main user?

A metaphor may be a good place to start … think about carpenters ...

Published on 2025/03/26/17/26/03 by Barry Clemson

Hans-Peter Plag: Jumping Frogs and Boiling People

A Flawed Myth

There is a myth based on experiments in the 1840ties that a frog would react to rapid changes but not to a slowly warming water. The myth contented that a frog thrown in boiling water would jump out, but a frog sitting in water that slowly is heated up would not jump out ...

Published on 2025/03/08/20/24/02 by Hans-Peter Plag

Barry Clemson: Bound in Freedom: Allegories for a new world

Introduction

What does one do when all the options are bad? How does one act when faced with impossible choices? Some real life examples may help.

Eldridge Willie Steptoe

Steptoe was about 5’6’’ tall, looked like supple rawhide, and couldn’t have weighed more than 120 pounds. He car ...

Published on 2025/03/04/11/49/32 by Barry Clemson

Hans-Peter Plag: Migration: The Unrecognized Existential Challenge for Our Civilization

Migration - the Past

Since the last more than 70,000 years after the eruption of the super volcano Toba, humans, or should I say, sapiens? have migrated. In fact, sapiens evolved into the most invasive of the large mammals, the only one found everywhere on the Earth's surface. Sapiens ...

Published on 2025/03/02/19/16/42 by Hans-Peter Plag

Barry Clemson: Nefarious Strategies of the Very Rich

The very rich have a well-developed strategy for controlling legislation that they don’t want. Obamacare provides a perfect example of how this works.

First Defense: Congressional committee chairs simply prevent proposed legislation from ever coming to a vote.

Sometimes the general public ...

Published on 2023/12/23/13/00/21 by Barry Clemson