Ben Ulansey

Pennsylvania

Writer at Medium

Writer, journalist, musician, and amateur philosopher https://t.co/NgozmCO9wc https://t.co/Twkot80ZQS

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Creativity in Times of Calamity

1 week ago | medium.com | Ben Ulansey

What writing still means in a world on fireIn happier times, there never used to be a feeling of guilt that went along with writing what I wanted to write. It would be an end in itself regardless of the topic. But as I’ve watched democracy erode around me, there’s been a growing sense that the only subject worth talking about is politics.
Free Questions for the Media That Donald Trump Deserves to Be Asked

1 week ago | medium.com | Dash MacIntyre |Ben Ulansey

A community for readers, writers, poets, satirists, creatives, and thinkers of thoughtsFollow publicationQuestions Socrates would be proud of!Do you think Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump owe you some of the $2 billion in Saudi funding they got? Think you should sue them? You’re the most notorious #MeToo villain in America, how does it feel to revolt so much of the American populace? Did your rape-defamation lawsuit with E.
I Was Raised by Monks: I Still Left the Church

1 week ago | medium.com | Ben Ulansey

Faith — Doubt — ChristianityThe more I searched for the real Jesus, the less I found Him in ChristianityA funny thing happened yesterday when I came home from the gym. As I walked through the door, sore yet refreshed, my wife asked me, “Where’s your cross?” I wasn’t shirtless by any means and had only been in the door for twenty seconds. Had I married a bloodhound? I explained that I had taken it off before entering the sauna and didn’t want to put it back on. My wife, who is Muslim, asked me why.
Can the Sinful Lead the Flock?

1 week ago | medium.com | Ben Ulansey

The most pivotal sermons come from broken soulsPastor: Do the people you’ve killed haunt you? Nuck: Yeah, sometimes. Pastor: And what do you do when that happens? Nuck: I smoke. Pastor: How much? Nuck: A lot. Pastor: Does it make the ghosts go away? Nuck: Nah, but it makes it hard for me to hear ‘em. Pastor: Who’s been haunting you the most lately? Nuck: This dude I had to take out for disrespecting me. Just found out his girlfriend is pregnant. Pastor: How did that make you feel?
America’s Reasonable Dread of Progress

1 week ago | medium.com | Benjamin Cain |Ben Ulansey

How urbanites and ruralists opt for different escapes from nature’s grim realityAmericans are what Europeans felt they could become if they got to start over. America was the “New World,” as Europeans called it when they rediscovered that land in the fifteenth century. Of course, those lands were already occupied, but not by an implacable imperial power known as Christendom.
Is Film an Insider's Club that Refuses to Offer True Poverty Representation?

1 week ago | walterrhein.substack.com | Walter Rhein |Ben Ulansey |Sarah Paris

Hello Friends!Well, this was just a delightful conversation with special guest Sarah Paris. She told us about how she spent some time working on scripts in Hollywood, so it was fascinating to get her perspective on that experience. This conversation kind of goes all over the place. As always, we deliberately tried to avoid talking about politics, but these days a little bit of political commentary seeps into almost everything you do. We were having so much fun we went over by about 10 minutes.
Why the Restitution Debate Will Last As Long As Humankind

1 week ago | medium.com | Sara Relli |Ben Ulansey

And the ever-evolving questions it raisesControlling artworks — how they are displayed and explained — equates to controlling the story surrounding them. And controlling the story means controlling the past, and purifying it of any unwelcome details surrounding the acquisition of such artworks. “He who controls the objects controls the story,” Kiwara-Wilson writes.
To Trump, Everything Is Beautiful, in Its Own Way

2 weeks ago | medium.com | arthur keith |Ben Ulansey

A community for readers, writers, poets, satirists, creatives, and thinkers of thoughtsFollow publicationOPINIONBut some things just weren’t meant to be beautifulIn Donald Trump’s world, everything is beautiful. Except democrats. We are the scum of the earth. If you’ve ever listened to some of the conservative radio talk show hosts, we’re even worse. What a beautiful world it would be without us. I usually feel like vomiting when I hear his voice because it is everywhere.
$1.2 Trillion, a Genocide, and an Abandoned Ally: Who Hit Trump on the Head Before His Saudi Tour?

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Venus Irvine |Ben Ulansey

President Trump Just Cut Israel Loose, Flirted With Iran, and Cashed In BigYou ever wake up, scroll through the news, and do a double take — not because of what happened, but because who did it? Donald J. Trump is back in the foreign policy spotlight (some may say he never left), and this time, he’s not yelling about obliterating his personal enemies. Let’s start with the obvious: something snapped. Or maybe clicked. Either way, this is not your old Trump.
5 Sayings I Just Can’t Take Seriously

2 weeks ago | medium.com | Len Varley |Ben Ulansey

HUMOR | LIVING WITH ASPERGER’SAt least according to my Aspie’s inner voiceA saying — a short, pithy expression that generally contains advice or wisdom — can be a timeless gem. For me, these sayings take on unique layers of meaning due to how I process the world. Being on the Asperger’s spectrum, I am used to having two “inner voices”. Firstly, there is my “Aspie’s voice”, which takes things in their literal, basic sense.