I, Ron, eek!

Where I, Ron, blog on a variety of different subjects--social theoretical, historical, cultural, political, social ethical, the media, and so on (I got the Max Weber, the Mark Twain, and the Stephen Leacock in me)--in a sometimes Niebuhrian or ironic way all with an attitude. Enjoy. Disagree. Be very afraid particularly if you have a socially and culturally constructed irrational fear of anything over 140 characters.

Saturday, 5 July 2025

Musings on The Twilight Zone Episode "He’s Alive”...

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  I really didn’t watch that much television when I was growing up until we moved to Dallas. For some of you out there this might seem a bit...
Wednesday, 2 July 2025

I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night

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  Like virtually everyone I have dreams when I sleep at night, multiple dreams that always, over the last two or three years, wake me up. I ...

The Books of My Life: The Essential HBO Reader

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  In my book both forthrightness and bluntness are virtues, virtues of the highest order in fact. So, let me be forthright and blunt. I don’...
Monday, 30 June 2025

Musings on Buying Used Books in an Era Where Ideology Seems to Create Reality

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  In the early 1990s when I was in my 40s I worked at a used bookshop, Walt West Books in Provo, Utah part-time and then full-time. It was o...
Saturday, 21 June 2025

Among the Mormons, 1991 to 1993

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  Sometime in the mid-1980s I became interested in Mormonism. I blame it on Jan Shipps whose book on the early history of Mormonism I read a...
Tuesday, 17 June 2025

“Get Out Before It is Too Late”: An Open Letter to the Lawmakers of New York State

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  What happened in Minnesota over the weekend—the assassination of a Minnesota Democrat lawmaker, the attempted assassination of other Democ...
Tuesday, 10 June 2025

The Guardian and Journalistic Mediocrity: Musings on an Article About the Political Leanings of Academia in the Guardian

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  Recently the American page of the English newspaper The Guardian , one of the few quality newspapers left in a world of sub-mediocre newsp...
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Ronald Helfrich Jnr.
Who am I? Wow, tough question. I am a hybrid, a blend of "genres". I am a son, a friend, a father, a lover of some art cinema (Rohmer, Rivette, Hawks, Hitchcock...), a devotee of some things Joss Whedon including Buffy and Firefly), a lover of some television (Forbrydelsen, Broen, Lewis, Morse,The Good Life...), an intellectual (or so I would like to think), a culture critic, an author, a romantic smacked in the face by reality, a cynic, a misanthrope, a lover of social theory and cultural theory, a researcher, a continuing student, a lover of knowledge for knowledge's sake, a teacher, someone bored by the banality of life, a lover of music (classical, Beethoven, Mahler, Ravel, Shostakovich, Rush, Midnight Oil, Richard Thompson, Crowded House...), a lover of books, a collector of DVD's, and a secularist among other things. I am, like we all are, to some extent, a work in progress. I see my blog as a kind of electronic journal so it is, like me, a hybrid. I apologise for its infelicities and whatever inaccuracies exist in it.
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