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.

Monday, 22 September 2025

The Market 32/Le Chopper Kiada

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  It never stops. Let me preface this jeremiad with a few empirical facts. I am a 71 year old male who has asthma; I have had it since I was...
Sunday, 7 September 2025

The Books of My Life: Comic Visions

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I am not a huge fan of sitcoms, American, British, or wherever. Nor am I a big fan of stand up comedy television shows, political comedy tel...
Sunday, 31 August 2025

The Books of My Life: Jesus and John Wayne

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  I, of course, have long known that Christianity, like other monotheistic “religions” or bureaucratised meaning systems such as theocratic ...
Sunday, 17 August 2025

The Music of My Life: Georges Bizet Edition

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  I have been listening to music since the mid-1960s. Memory is fuzzy here but I think I have been listening to art music or classical music...
Wednesday, 6 August 2025

Life as Crisis Management: The Food Stamp Renewal Kiada

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  There really is no escaping Murphy’s Law, Kafka’s Law, or Voinovich’s Law, call it whatever you will. This is a lesson I learn every month...
Friday, 1 August 2025

The Books of My Life: John Sayles (Molyneaux)

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Modern and postmodern life is inherently absurd. Since human life is absurd it is also, as the reflecive person grasps, sometimes annoying. ...
Thursday, 31 July 2025

The American Health Care System Sucks Kiada, Part One

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  There is a lot, for rational and reasonable reasons, to dislike about the US Health Care System. There is the fact that so much of the hea...
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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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