http://www.thirdeyemag.com Using Creativity to Build Better Communities Sat, 24 Jul 2010 20:03:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/our-son-the-soldier/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/our-son-the-soldier/#comments Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:32:37 +0000 Gregory Roll http://www.thirdeyemag.com/?p=274 A miserable March day, overcast and cold, rain spit on our faces. Parents, spouses, and children all locked in the same nightmare, a bad dream, an insanity sending men and women off to war but somehow we agreed to let this thing happen. Behind our kids, behind our soldiers standing at attention, there is a graveyard. I am not amused by the irony; I am a part of it. This was the first day of what would be a God-awful fifteen months. On Mother’s Day, two months later, our son the soldier and his National Guard unit deployed to Iraq. ]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/our-son-the-soldier/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/you-are-in-my-breeding-territory/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/you-are-in-my-breeding-territory/#comments Mon, 26 Oct 2009 00:13:03 +0000 Robert Jones http://www.thirdeyemag.com/?p=244 Electronic communication networks now construct much of our understanding of reality. The distinct categories of identity that develop in these digital realms along with the interface between the body and these electric fantasies create new possibilities for what some call “computer cross-dressing.” Just as “real world” drag queens disrupt gender categories that were previously considered static, computer cross-dressers deconstruct, explore, and reconstruct new identities. Communities of computer cross-dressers destabilize identity categories so that they are constantly in transit, bearing no stable ontological relationship between what is on the World Wide Web and who is behind the computer. ]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/you-are-in-my-breeding-territory/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/war_is_entertainment/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/war_is_entertainment/#comments Wed, 04 Jul 2007 17:33:16 +0000 Jason Glover http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/07/04/war_is_entertainment/ When George W. Bush hitched a ride on a Navy S-3B Viking and landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln to declare an end to major combat operations in Iraq, there was more at work than just slick PR. Bush, who was visibly thrilled by the experience, enabled the American public to vicariously share in the excitement of an aircraft carrier landing. All around the country, viewing audiences reveled in his machismo display of technology. […]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/war_is_entertainment/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/stuck-in-disneyland/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/stuck-in-disneyland/#comments Thu, 03 May 2007 23:17:52 +0000 Jason Glover http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/05/03/stuck-in-disneyland/ An exposé on the doublethink and hypocrisy perpetrated by the type of animal rights extremism touted by PETA. For instance: did you know that from July 1998 through December 2005 the group killed over 14,400 dogs, cats, and other "companion animals"? In 2005, 31 felony counts of animal cruelty were brought against two PETA employees for the unlawful disposal of animal carcasses in North Carolina dumpsters. ]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/stuck-in-disneyland/feed/ 14 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/an-impractical-obsession/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/an-impractical-obsession/#comments Thu, 03 May 2007 18:35:39 +0000 Mallory Glover http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/05/03/an-impractical-obsession/ ''I would rather be dumb than be a slut, but I would rather be a slut than be fat or ugly." This statement was made by an 18-year-old girl taking part in Lauren Greenfield’s widely acclaimed traveling photo series entitled “Girl Culture.” In the series, Greenfield photographs women and young girls, displaying their thoughts about their bodies and the obsessions resulting from the Westernized view of ideal beauty alongside the photos. Unfortunately, statements such as this have become all too familiar among the youth of America. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/an-impractical-obsession/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/in-the-eyes-of-the-beholder/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/in-the-eyes-of-the-beholder/#comments Thu, 04 Jan 2007 05:36:49 +0000 Les Beldo http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/01/03/in-the-eyes-of-the-beholder/ In order to protect certain inalienable, universal human rights, a just society must place a limit on its tolerance of the practices of other, less just societies. This statement seems innocuous enough, and repeated aloud in most social circles in the U.S. or Europe it is unlikely to draw harsh opposition. Some may even deride it as being a statement of the obvious. Considering, however, that the West is scarcely more than a century removed from the age of colonialism and slavery, perhaps we should be a little shy about affirming any ideology that alludes to concepts like inalienable, universal, or just. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/in-the-eyes-of-the-beholder/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/the-true-cost-of-war/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/the-true-cost-of-war/#comments Tue, 04 Jul 2006 05:57:25 +0000 Les Beldo http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2007/10/17/the-true-cost-of-war/ A grim milestone was observed in June when the 2500th American serviceperson was killed in the most recent Iraq war. Even more startlingly, when assessing the damage to U.S. military personnel and their families, that figure may be misleadingly low. No precise means exists to tally broken lives, damaged relationships, and the general psychological trauma of soldiers asked to do what is otherwise unthinkable in our society — kill. But a survey of the headlines suggests that there is more afoot in Iraq than loss of life. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/the-true-cost-of-war/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/full-spectrum-dominance/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/full-spectrum-dominance/#comments Tue, 04 Jul 2006 01:47:15 +0000 Jason Glover http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2006/07/03/full-spectrum-dominance/ Unrelenting efforts by the Pentagon and U.S. Air Force are hell-bent on creating outlandish space-based weapons. Critics assert the result will be a free-for-all orbiting arms-race. Part three of a three part series on the future of war. ]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/full-spectrum-dominance/feed/ 1 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/imperial-evanescence/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/imperial-evanescence/#comments Thu, 04 May 2006 06:01:27 +0000 Les Beldo http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2006/05/03/imperial-evanescence/ The limited perspective offered by the relatively short human lifespan has been cause for much observational error. Even in a postmodern existence where constant change has become the norm and the term progress rendered redundant, the common individual still acts as though - substantively, at least - things have always been and will always be just as they are now. [...]]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/imperial-evanescence/feed/ 0 http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/post-human-warriors/ http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/post-human-warriors/#comments Thu, 04 May 2006 02:04:33 +0000 Jason Glover http://www.thirdeyemag.com/wordpress/2006/05/03/post-human-warriors/ Bioengineering and advanced robotics are blurring the line between science and science fiction, as the Pentagon pursues the creation of "super soldiers." Part two of a three part series.]]> http://www.thirdeyemag.com/nonfiction/essays/post-human-warriors/feed/ 1