Héctor VilainThe UncannyTHE CHOICEAlmost a year I ago said that the 2024 Presidential election put me in a moral quandary. Why vote? I wondered out loud.Jul 9Jul 9
Héctor VilainThe UncannyThe 2024 Presidential Election has put me in a moral quandary. Why vote?On the one hand, the choice is an aged narcissist and misogynist, indicted 4 times, including for racketeering, who is hellbent on ruining…Aug 16, 20232Aug 16, 20232
Héctor VilainThe UncannyAgency: It’s Place & ValueIn 2009 Raj Patel wrote words that have reappeared to me as if out of a thick fog: “The future will be shaped by our will to imagine a…May 3, 20231May 3, 20231
Héctor VilaAmerican Carnage: A Culture of Death & the Illusion of FreedomMIDDLEBURY — On Sunday, April 9, at 10:28 p.m, Middlebury College received a hoax call of an active shooter in the Davis Family Library.Apr 16, 20231Apr 16, 20231
Héctor VilainThe UncannyAn Uncanny Confluence: The Talibanization of America — is it possible?Could The Talibanization of America actually be possible? That is, a total shut down and repression of American life? What are the signs?Feb 25, 20231Feb 25, 20231
Héctor VilainThe UncannyThe Absurdity & Incongruity of War — Vietnam, Yemen, Afghanistan & Ukraine“In my dreams, the war is silent,” writes Bushra Al-Maqtari in What Have You Left Behind? “No missiles, nor air raids, no murder, no…Feb 17, 20232Feb 17, 20232
Héctor VilainThe UncannyThe World on Fire: A Failure to Establish TiesA close reading of the US Embassy, in Islamabad, Pakistan, document, which was handed to a young woman, a high school student from…Feb 6, 20231Feb 6, 20231
Héctor VilainThe UncannyThe U.S. State Department Aids The Taliban in Erasing All Hope for Afghanistan — Especially WomenIn 2005, Middlebury College admitted our first Afghan student, a candidate from the Initiative to Educate Afghan Women. The following year…Jan 16, 2023Jan 16, 2023
Héctor VilainThe UncannyFinding WaldoFor 12 weeks, September to December, 2022, a total of 30 hrs, I taught in-person every Monday and Wednesday, 8:40 am to 9:55 am, in…May 16, 20223May 16, 20223
Héctor VilainThe UncannyThe Divided States of America: The Disillusion of Speech, Education & Culturefor my students, present and long inside the world of confusing animosityMay 7, 2022May 7, 2022
