Column Chronicles: Sir Redundancy speaks

Sir Redundancy speaks

Frank Cotolo
November 9, 2023

Reginald Mork was knighted Sir Redundancy for his brilliant essays on many topics. We are honored to have settled a lawsuit allowing us to abstract and publish his writing for the first time since his death in 1965.

ON REVOLUTION -- An uprising in social civics takes rebels because rebels revolt and it is revolting against something or someone that creates a different change in a system's process structure. Without change there can be nothing different; one is not like the other; things are another way than they were before.

ON MEDICINE -- Doctors see symptoms as signs of something sickly. A person can be symptomatic if the person has evidence of a clue to illness, the kind that makes one sick. Medicine may help but medicine that cures symptoms reduces the notion, which may be the truth if it has a definition that is not false, that the main problem is a troubling problem, one that causes a lack of knowledge or no answer.

ON JAZZ -- The music called Jazz is mostly improvosational, musicians make it up as they play. They don't rehearse jazz so it sounds the same way each time a note is played; they change notes to different notes, ones that are not the same and rely on not being dependent to a melody or string of notes that are used each time. Jazz makes many people enjoy its fresh new sounds, making a Jazz audience filled with people happy.

ON MAGIC -- When someone does a magic trick in front of you it usually does something unexpected to happen. A magician is someone who performs acts of magic and he or she never says or tells how the deceptive trick is an act of deception. If it was not a trick, after all, it would be magic and there is no proof that magic illusions are real.

ON THINKING -- Sometimes a person thinks with his brain about things and if they are the wrong incorrect things then the person is putting stressful pressure on him or herself. To think is to be, as the philosopher thought, but a present being at the moment it occurs is not an answerable solution. Thinking, I ponder, is useful if it works, unlike things that are unsuccessful failures.

Frank Cotolo can be found hosting the talk and interview programme Cotolo Chronicles. You can send him an e-mail at this address: frank@148.ca.