The Only Option

 

Banks Bots

 I spent part of this morning listening as a once-loyal bank customer told me how much she "hated" the bank's latest chatbot technology.

This not a financially unsavvy person. Nor is she a Luddite.

For the near future, she'll be visiting the bank more often.

But beyond the near future?

[I can imagine the bank's response: She'll have no choice. But I'm not sure if that is true.]

Remedial Studies

“We know they are lying, they know they are lying, they know we know they are lying, we know they know we know they are lying, and still they continue to lie.”

 — Alexander Solzhenitsyn

All college students, regardless of their fields of study, should read One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich; The First Circle; and The Gulag Archipelago.

Their teachers should do so as well.

[Photo by Kacper G at Unsplash]

Two Chapters of This and Then Two of That

I read a lot, but I don't think I read enough. Top of current stack:

Coming Soon to Your Neighborhood

 

Flashback Time

 

Powerful

 

Caring and Connection

 New York Times: Seoul takes on the very real issue of loneliness.

First Paragraph

 If I am out of my mind, it's all right with me, thought Moses Herzog.

- From Herzog by Saul Bellow

[Every time I have read or re-read a book by Saul Bellow, I have felt intellectually enriched.]

Many Thanks

 Many thanks to Kurt Harden at Cultural Offering for his kind review of my novel.