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Stephen H. Provost is an author of paranormal adventures and historical non-fiction. “Memortality” is his debut novel on Pace Press, set for release Feb. 1, 2017.
An editor and columnist with more than 30 years of experience as a journalist, he has written on subjects as diverse as history, religion, politics and language and has served as an editor for fiction and non-fiction projects. His book “Fresno Growing Up,” a history of Fresno, California, during the postwar years, is available on Craven Street Books. His next non-fiction work, “Highway 99: The History of California’s Main Street,” is scheduled for release in June.
For the past two years, the editor has served as managing editor for an award-winning weekly, The Cambrian, and is also a columnist for The Tribune in San Luis Obispo.
He lives on the California coast with his wife, stepson and cats Tyrion Fluffybutt and Allie Twinkletail.
Ruminations and provocations.
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Somehow the American talent for innovation that gave us the airplane and the personal computer, that invented the telephone and put a man on the moon, has failed spectacularly in its most basic test: improving the way we treat our fellow human beings. Especially those we perceive as different.
Read MoreTrump’s unwillingness to accept blame for anything is a problem because, if you don’t admit you’ve made mistakes, you’ll never learn from them. And if the mistakes are big enough, that comes with a cost — as in one of Trump’s failed casinos, the cost gets higher every time you “double down.”
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How Dorsey and Zuckerberg can sleep each night knowing that they’re giving the most powerful man in the world a platform to push false accusations against innocent citizens is a question you’ll have to ask them.
Read MoreTrump’s no populist. He’s a con man playing a shell game, and winning by wrapping himself in the flag. In fact, his very success shows how difficult it is for a populist to carry the day in the United States. Real populists speak truth to power. He speaks falsehood to retain it.
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Herd mentality has kicked in on both sides. If you ask questions, you’re a threat. If you even think about seeing the other side of an issue, you’re weak or even a traitor. This isn’t just true for Republicans, where loyalty to Trump is explicitly demanded, but also for Democrats, where it’s simply expected.
Read MoreWith confirmation bias firmly set on both sides and the old media template of unbiased watchdog in shambles, people stopped trying to figure out what was true and what wasn’t. With so many competing messages from so many biased sources, they threw up their hands and just decided to believe whatever their own side was saying.
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