Sometimes (actually most of the time) it’s far too easy to get caught up in this world of matter. This world of financial responsibilities, bills, wars, rumours of wars, and again financial matters – most especially money. Money, money, money, money, money, money, money. It’s what makes this ridiculous world go around. Right? Nope….
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The American Project
The American Project by Vago Damitio http://www.vagodamitio.com/ I’m considering a new direction and project in my life and work. I’ve never been keen on the American dream or being American (aside from the passport) – but as I get ready to come home and bring my immigrant family with me – I realize, maybe I never…
Plagarism
Some of the most visited articles on this site are papers I wrote in University about mass media, personality, and various ethnographic studies of fairly obscure tribes… looking at the statistics, it occurred to me that the reason for that is because others are being assigned similar topics for papers. That, got me to wondering…are…
Kingdom of Loathing – The Best Game on the Web
Link to the Game. Kingdom of Loathing: Virtual Society of the Spectacle Kingdom of Loathing, located at kingdomofloathing.com, is a game that began as a joke. The joke requires some historical background in order to be understood. In 2003 online games were becoming increasingly sophisticated with 3-D type graphics, complex imaginary worlds, and sophisticated character…
Never Mind the Bullocks…Where’s the Passion Fruit?
Never Mind the Bull, Where’s the Passion Fruit? by Vago Damitio For the bulk of the existence of the human species, men and women have not kept pets nor tended gardens in the ‘modern’ sense. Neither have they ranched livestock, planted fields, nor built houses in one spot and put a mailbox in front with…
Tourism and Reality in Southeast Asia
Tourism and Reality in Southeast Asia by Vago Damitio While watching the food channel the other day, I came across a disturbing thing. Initially, what caught my attention was a bald man in a southern China marketplace looking at the various foods being offered on a street vendor’s barbecue cart. I wasn’t disturbed by this,…
Tourism, Women, and Power in Southeast Asia
Women and Power in Southeast Asia by Vago Damitio Society is a complex organism that reflects the diverse use of power by the individuals and groups within it. Sometimes obvious and sometimes subtle, power is coveted, used, exploited, and always present in all groups of human beings. This is a constant. What is not constant,…
Like Sands Through the Hourglass
Like Sands Through the Hourglass…. by Vago Damitio No matter who a person is or where they may be growing up, there is no doubt about the fact that they will, at some point in their lives, deal with some sort of rite of passage. If a person is Caucasian, middle income, and living in…
Living in a Not Material World
Living in a Not-Material World by VagoDamitio In looking at the material world around us, it is easy to suppose that everyone sees the same things, the same way, the whole world over. This is not the case. Most of us, living in what we call ‘western’ and ‘modern’ societies tend to look at the…
The Time of Rice
Time for Rice. Rice Time. The Rice for Time. Timing Rice. by Vago Damitio It is easy to forget that time is a human construction. Not to say that things didn’t happen in a way that could be described as ‘time’ before humans were measuring it, but this is a very different thing than the…