Caller: Ronni In Oregon
London 2012 Olympics? Or London ZION Olympics?
White Wilderness
The 1958 Disney
documentary into lemmings that won the academy award. Footage of lemmings
jumping off cliffs was later found out to be faked. Edited version just showing
the fake footage - very funny... although maybe not for the lemmings.
So was this 1958
Academy Award-winning documentary actually a Disney snuff film?
http://politicaldictionary.com/words/snollygoster/
Political Dictionary
snollygoster
A politician who will
go to any lengths to win public office, regardless of party affiliation or
platform.
One of the earliest
references comes from the Columbus Dispatch in October 28, 1895 which defined
the term as “a fellow who wants office, regardless of party,
platform, or principles, and who… gets there by sheer force of monumental talknophical
asumnancy.”
According to Vintage
Vocabulary, President Harry Truman revived its use in 1952. Talking about
politicians who like to make a show of public prayer, he said, “I wish some of
these snollygosters would read the New Testament and perform accordingly.”
Time notes Truman’s
tone “left no doubt that a snollygoster was a low creature indeed, but few, if
any, of his hearers knew what snollygoster meant.”
A related term is
carpetbagger.
Historum
talknophical adj.
1. Slick and devious use of rhetoric. 2. Deliberate obscurantism using grand
philosophical concepts intended to overwhelm the listener and leave them
thinking that the speaker knows what he's talking about.
assumnacy
noun (assume + lunacy) The propagation of lunatic ideas as if they are
commonplace and unquestionable.
lacuna noun
\lə-ˈkü-nə, -ˈkyü-\ (Latin, pool, pit, gap; diminutive of lacus, pond, lake)
Plural lacunae
1: a blank
space or a missing part : gap
2: a small cavity,
pit, or discontinuity in an anatomical structure
---
"The
lacuna present in
the quotation was the mendacious void where proper context should have been of
service, as appropriate to its master verisimilitude."
Function: noun
Etymology: Latin
verisimilitudo, from verisimilis, veri similis having the
appearance of truth (from veri -- gen. of verum, neuter of verus
true -- + similis like, similar) + -tudo -tude -- more at VERY, SAME
1: the
quality or state of being verisimilar : the
appearance of truth : PROBABILITY,
LIKELIHOOD <the dialogue is too abstract and self-conscious for verisimilitude
-- Paul Pickrel>
2: that which is
verisimilar: a statement apparently true
Synonym: see TRUTH
(Source:
Merriam-Webster Unabridged)
---
Mass-market
nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies
shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of
great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and
hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude
can set that line straight.
--James Elroy
(American Tabloid)
Bonus word: hagiography
noun \hä-gē-ˈä-grə-fē, -jē-\ (Greek hagios “holy” (see
hagiology) + -graphy “process of writing or recording” Greek
graphia)
1: biography
of saints or venerated persons
2: idealizing
or idolizing biography
Issupedia
arational
Overview
Misuse
It is often used as a sort of "weasel concept" to justify belief in that which is extremely unlikely but nonetheless not provably false.
Links
- Reason and Faith: "What is arational or above the reason is what reason and science cannot define. It cannot be proven nor can it be disproved. Take the example of the survival of the soul after the death. There is no hard evidence to this belief, but no scientific fact has disproved it either."
- 1991-02 Arational Actions, Rosalind Hursthouse, The Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 88, No. 2, pp. 57-68
http://www.the-heal-yourself-series.com/TheWalterLastStory.html
THE WALTER LAST STORY
Dr. Patricia Jordan
… dedicated to Master
Petar Deunov
Paneurythmics?
"All the world
renders homage to me and I render homage to the Master
Petar Deunov from
Bulgaria"
--Albert
Einstein
Forbidden Knowledge
TV
How to Thrive off the
Grid with no Electricity,
Car, Internet, TV or
Solid House
We meet Aimy, who lives in an open,
pagoda structure called a "rancho" in the mountains of Costa Rica.
She lives an extreme lifestyle of "conscious, natural living in total
harmony with the universe."
Her lifestyle is not for everyone,
but it's definitely some food for thought.
===
Videos For Healthnuts Who Want To
Heal From Being Normal Presented by Ka Sundance-Dad Of The Rawfoodfamily.
Ka Sundance And His Wife Katie Share
Their Rawfoodfamily Life (They Have 4 Kids) Along With Info About Health,
Lifestyle And Being In Love With Life.
Polio Forever / Jennifer Lake
“The Salk vaccine was a massive radiation experiment…
…that paved the
way for a New Biology”
Electromagnetism
This subject begins as Radiation
Injury: http://polioforever.wordpress.com/radiation-injury
and advances to the field of photobiology http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photobiology
Electromagnetic
Radiation:
transmission lines, ’dirty electricity’, cell towers, cell phones, microwaves,
radar and ultrasound. EMR or RF (radio frequency) effects are divided into two
categories: thermal (tissue-heating) and nonthermal. An ever-increasing volume
of EMR studies is recognizing the arbitrariness of the subdivisions, much like
the division of effects produced by ionizing and non-ionizing radiation. Damage
to cells, glands, and organs proceeds from exposures across the electromagnetic
spectrum.
Electromagnetic (non-ionizing)
radiation opens the Blood Brain Barrier and other tissue barriers that
protect vital organs: “One of the
American scientists who pioneered the study of EMF effects on the nervous
system is Allen Frey; his work has included studies of the effects on evoked
potentials [nerve impulses], behavior (17), and hearing phenomena (18). In 1975 Frey reported an increase in the
permeability of the bloodbrain barrier (the selective process by which capillaries in
the brain regulate transport of
substances between the blood and the surrounding neuropil) of rats
exposed to 2400 µW/cm2 (continuous) or
200 µW/cm2 (pulsed) at 1.2 GHz (19). Frey found that dye injected into the bloodstream appeared in
the brain of exposed animals, but not
the control animals, and that the pulsed EMF was more effective than the continuous signal in opening the barrier even
though the average power level of the
pulsed signal was only one-tenth that of the continuous signal. Frey’s findings
were confirmed and extended by Oscar and Hawkins in 1977 (20). They reported that continuous and pulsed EMFs both
increased brain-tissue permeability, but
that, depending on the particular pulse characteristics, pulsed energy could be either more or less
effective than continuous-wave energy.” http://www.biotele.com/EL/EL5/Direct.html
{Read more at the above link…}
Jennifer Lake’s Blog
EMF Killing Fields
MUST READ! ~Lark
Govt Slaves.info
Artist Unknown
Next World TV
A New Chapter In Bison
Restoration
The Bison Are Back
Home!
"These animals
were the center of our universe. They were so important to us that we regarded
them as family. We couldn't have survived without them." says Stoney
Anketell, on the Ft. Peck Indian Reservation Tribal Board of the mighty bison
that once roamed the Great Plains of Montana.
Yellowstone National
Park was the last haven for wild buffalo in the late 19th century. However, the
head count went from 30 million down to 25 individuals at its lowest. They did
repopulate, but only here.
This was the only
environment they occupied - until now!
In the spring of 2012
a very historic event occurred. About 60 of the last wild bison were moved from
Yellowstone National Park region up to Northeastern Montana up to the Great
Plains where bison formerly roamed onto the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.
Now they are
repopulating their ancestral plains!
For more than 10
years Earthjustice, an organization of lawyers dedicated to fighting for the
environment, has fought and won to protect bison near Yellowstone National
Park. Now they are fighting in the Montana Supreme Court to protect bison on
Indian Reservations.
Go Earthjustice!
--Bibi Farber
Next World TV
Getting Started With
Your Own Small Farm
How Much To Invest?
Have you thought
about starting your own small farm?
91% of U.S. farms are
classified as small, earning less than $250,000 per year. About 60% of these small
farms are very small, generating less than $10,000 per year.
In this video, 12 New
York farmers discuss how they financed their start-up and offer tips for those
just beginning.
Some started slow,
but wished they had borrowed more, so as to be more cost effective earlier on.
Some were happy with the path of only borrowing what they could afford, and
chose to grow slowly. Others dove right in, thinking big and borrowing as much
as possible.
Great advice and
interesting perspectives for those considering getting serious about farming!
--Bibi Farber
Love for Life
THE WORLD ORDER
A Study In The Hegemony Of Parasitism
By Eustace Mullins
(1985)
Stability Operations
Headquarters
Department of the Army
October 2008
FORWARD
Since the terrorist
attacks on the American people seven years ago, we have been engaged in an epic struggle unlike any
other in our history. This struggle, what may be the defining ideological
conflict of the 21st century,
is marked by the rising threat of a violent extremist movement that seeks to
create anarchy and
instability throughout the international system. Within this system, we also
face emerging nations discontented
with the status quo, flush with wealth and ambition, and seeking a new global balance of power. Yet
the greatest threat to our national security comes not in the form of terrorism
or ambitious powers, but
from fragile states either unable or unwilling to provide for the most basic
needs of their people.
As the Nation
continues into this era of uncertainty and persistent conflict, the lines
separating war and peace, enemy and
friend, have blurred and no longer conform to the clear delineations we once
knew.
At the same time,
emerging drivers of conflict and instability are combining with rapid cultural,
social, and technological
change to further complicate our understanding of the global security
environment.
Military success
alone will not be sufficient to prevail in this environment. To confront the
challenges before us, we must
strengthen the capacity of the other elements of national power, leveraging the
full potential of our
interagency partners.
{Read more at the
above link…}
Aangirfan
THE INTERNET AND BIG
CORPORATIONS
Pro Liberty
America Is A Don’t Ask
Don’t Tell Nation
By Chris Hinkley
Road Warrior Radio /
RBN
Police State
Caller: “Hey man. Hey, they’re running another
checkpoint just outside town. It’s up by Mica Flats.”
Me: “What?! You’re kidding!”
Caller: “Yeah, my wife just drove past it and called
me to tell me about it. It was an ISP [Idaho State Patrol] checkpoint and there
were guys in camo up on the hill observing, apparently.”
Me: “That’s crazy. Thanks for the call.”
It was Tuesday,
September 15, 2009, and I had journeyed with a friend to a patriot rally in
Hamilton, Montana to hear featured guest speaker, 81 year old M.J. “Red” Beckman,
legendary co-author of the two volume series, The Law That Never Was.
This was the second
call to me in as many weeks regarding first-hand accounts of local area
checkpoints. Just two weeks earlier I had received a call from a friend and
patriot describing his first-hand account of another “optional” checkpoint. He
explained to me how the checkpoint was set up in such a way as to indicate it
was optional to motorists. The trouble was, the “option” to the checkpoint was
a u-turn – across the double yellow line. He told me when he opted for the
latter; he was run down by law enforcement, stopped, interrogated, cited, and
is now subsequently embroiled in a legal battle for his presumed freedom.
Unfortunately, more troubling than these draconian measures, are the facts
surrounding our present state of military rule, and the ignorance of most to
it.
Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell
Today in America,
many people are waking up. We discuss issues more broadly than in any other
time in recent memory. But when it comes to specifics – and the tougher,
sometimes life-changing specifics – it seems we’ve made an unspoken agreement
something like this; I promise not to ask hard, life-altering questions so
please promise me you won’t share the hard truths that may alter my reality.
This is a don’t ask don’t tell policy of another nature, but I believe many
people are realizing the urgency of coming to grips with our indolence.
As bizarre and
Orwellian as it may seem, I am constantly amazed things aren’t worse. I am
amazed, not because I believe unsubstantiated or hyperbolic media accounts, but
because I read the amalgamation of documentation shaping Public Policy – what
we now call Government – bearing remarkable resemblance to the words of Thomas
Jefferson, as penned in the Declaration of Independence, “....a long train of
abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to
reduce them under absolute Despotism....” For those interested, following is
not a comprehensive treatise, but a distilled outline of specifics; some of
which you’re aware, and others perhaps you are not.
{Read more at the
above link – MUST READ! ~Lark}
Ynet News
IDF magnet for US olim
Amidst Knesset draft-dodging debate,
350 young Americans immigrate to Israel to join IDF
"This is the best reply to
Iranian and Hezbollah motivated terrorism," said Erez Halfon, deputy
chairman of 'Nefseh B'Nefesh'. "Young people from North America leaving
the good life behind for the Zionist idea."
Alexander Higgins
Iran Arrests 30
Terrorists Hired By Israel’s Mossad
30 Mossad hired terrorists behind bombings and assassinations
of nuclear scientists and 2 Israeli terrorist training networks have been taken
down by Iranian intelligence.
Iran has announced
they have arrested 30 terrorists working for Israel’s Mossad who were behind
the assassination of their nuclear scientists and were responsible for a series
of bombings in Iran.
Iran’s intelligences
agencies say that the raids have additionally taken down two networks being
used by the Mossad to recruit and train operatives to conduct operations inside
Iran.
Iran says they have
irrefutable proof that Israel was behind the assassinations and bombings inside
Iran that have targeted their peaceful civilian nuclear energy program.
Was Mahatma Gandhi an
Illuminati Pawn?
By Timothy Watson
Wall Street Journal
Among the Hagiographers
Early on Gandhi was
dubbed a 'mortal demi-god'—and he has been regarded that way ever since
Joseph Lelyveld has
written a generally admiring book about Mohandas Gandhi, the man credited with
leading India to independence from Britain in 1947. Yet "Great Soul"
also obligingly gives readers more than enough information to discern that he
was a sexual weirdo, a political incompetent and a fanatical faddist—one who
was often downright cruel to those around him. Gandhi was therefore the archetypal
20th-century progressive intellectual, professing his love for mankind as a
concept while actually despising people as individuals.
Academic Earth
Contemporary
Communitarianism, part I
By Ian Shapiro – Yale
Lecture
Description
In addition to the traditionalist-conservative view covered
last time, the other anti-Enlightenment school the course explores is
contemporary communitarianism. While Burke and Devlin appealed to tradition as
the basis for our values, communitarians appeal to the community-accepted
values as the basis for what should guide us. Communitarian Richard Rorty
criticizes the Enlightenment endeavor of justifying philosophy from the ground
up from indubitable premises as a fool's errand and a dangerous mug's game. The
main focus of this lecture is the communitarianism of Alasdair MacIntyre.
Professor Shapiro introduces this school by exploring the symptoms of the
problem wrought by the Enlightenment. One is the rise of emotivism and complete
moral subjectivism--that is, the abandonment of the instruments for making
moral judgments as a consequence of trying to justify philosophy from the
ground up. The second symptom is the triumph of instrumentalism and the
rejection of teleology, which is actually a coping mechanism for society's deep
pluralism of values. Professor Shapiro discusses MacIntyre's two symptoms, as well
as introduces his conceptions of practices and virtues.
Course
Description
This course explores main answers to the question "when
do governments deserve our allegiance?" It starts with a survey of major
political theories of the Enlightenment—Utilitarianism, Marxism, and the social
contract tradition—through classical formulations, historical context, and
contemporary debates relating to politics today. It then turns to the rejection
of Enlightenment political thinking. Lastly, it deals with the nature of, and
justifications for, democratic politics, and their relations to Enlightenment
and Anti-Enlightenment political thinking. Practical implications of these
arguments are covered through discussion of a variety of concrete problems.
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Dear Mr. McKenzie,
I submit this in response to your
recent column, Texas Faith: Obama sparked a conversation
about communitarianism v. individualism: Where do you fall?
Although I am not a religious man -
in the sense that I regularly attend a government-approved faith-based
institution - I do feel there is still a place for the Golden Rule in this
country. Yet communitarian law [under the communitarian global governance
scheme] will effectively rule this out in favor of secular humanist (See: UN
Universal Declaration of Human Rights; International Court of Justice at The
Hague; Paul Kurtz; eupraxsophy) along with authoritarian socialist ideals.
Behind the mask of seeming to advance human potential and global security - via
the promotion of sustainable development,
for instance - the American people will, in fact, be subjected to arrested development... and a tyranny
never before known in world history.
Also see video and text information
under "Correspondence" at the following link: http://larkintexas.blogspot.com/2012/04/word-war-clouds.html
Communitarianism = Gangsterism =
Racketeering = Organized Crime = Freeloading = Human Trafficking = Parasitism =
Neo-Feudal Slavery
Other serious researchers on the
discussion you suggest include:
Niki Raapana http://nikiraapana.blogspot.com / http://nord.twu.net/acl/research/ http://nord.twu.net/acl/books.html
Bobby Garner http://congregator.net
Vicky Davis http://channelingreality.com
I've studied these issues at length
since 2004; and I currently host a weekly radio broadcast... devoted to
religio-philosophy and the law... on RBN. If ever you care to listen to a past
broadcast, please don't hesitate to ask, and I will forward you a podcast. Justa Numerican can be listened-to...
every Saturday afternoon locally... from 2:00 to 3:00 P. M. CST.
Please enjoy the excellent article
below... Cry, our beloved America: Sliding Down the Communitarian Slope...
by Norway's Berit Kjos!
Kindest regards,
Lark
Crossroad
Cry, our beloved
America
Sliding Down the
Communitarian Slope
By Berit Kjos - March
2, 2010
Emphasis added in
bold letters below
Remember the Communitarian THREE-LEGGED STOOL: A mandatory partnership
between the public sector (government),
private sector (business), and social sector (community, churches, schools, etc.) --
managed through Global Standards and laws established by national and
international governments. This Communitarian system is fast leading the masses
into a web of control involving food, health care (mental as well as physical),
beliefs, values, education, business, etc.
It's not
quite Communism.
It's
certainly not American Capitalism!
It is (blow the trumpets) Communitarianism! The Third Way! And it changes everything, just as our president
promised.
Daniel Henninger illustrates this governing structure well in his recent Wall Street Journal article titled "Obama's Business Buyout":
"It made perfect sense for President Obama to speak yesterday to the Business Roundtable. Businesses big and small could use a pep talk just now.... But instead of giving a speech about reviving business confidence in the economy, Mr. Obama gave a speech about reviving business confidence in him.
"The evening before this speech, Mr. Obama held a small White House dinner for some CEOs from household-name corporations, such as AT&T, Xerox, State Farm, Verizon, PepsiCo and GE. The reason for a linen-tablecloth dinner followed by a big speech to really big business is the White House has concluded it is wrongly seen as anti-business.
"I agree. This White House is pro-business. In fact, it's so pro-business it's proposing a virtual merger with the private sector. Ladies and gentlemen of the business community, meet your new partner—Uncle Sam.
No longer will American freedom, initiative, incentive and common sense inspire new ideas, build new companies, multiply jobs and reward hard work. As President Obama (an Alinsky disciple and a former member of the Marxist "New Party") explained,
"Under the terms of the proposed deal, the White House will drive the locomotive of the American economy and U.S. business will ride in the passenger cars. You're being told to get over it."[1]
"For the better part of three decades, a disproportionate share of the nation's wealth has been accumulated by the wealthy. Technological advances and growing global competition, while transforming whole industries—and birthing new ones—has accentuated the trend toward rising inequality.""I take this to mean," wrote Mr. Henninger, "that while the tax and economic policies of the past four presidencies worked for the economy—birthing whole industries—it was bad for society as Mr. Obama understands it."[1]
That's scary. While Mr. Obama assured his listeners that this new policy is not a "government takeover," he has something even worse in mind. It could even "work" in a twisted sort of way. The government may own GM, but it won't own everything. Instead, it will control, tax and manipulate everything. That means it can crush or strengthen any company at will. It's far easier to give the commands when it's free from the responsibilities of actual ownership.
The crushing hand of Communitarianism
If you doubt the reality of this spreading agenda, please read our series on Reinventing the World. It shows the three main elements of the Communitarian structure:
Part 1: The Seamless Communitarian SYSTEM -- Conforming schools, communities, corporations, nations and churches to the global agenda that rules out Biblical truth and Christian lifestyles.[2]
Part 2: The Mind-Changing Dialectic PROCESS -- Training the masses to think collectively and to serve a Greater Whole.
Part 3: The Rising Wall of Global STANDARDS -- Managing the masses through Global Standards and Continual Assessments.
Those standards are already outlined in major UN treaties, initiatives and declarations. To understand their restrictions on freedom, read these four articles:
The tentacles of this controlling web are spreading around the world. The corrupt United Nations with its regional branches (European Union, African Union, etc.) provides the governing framework. Like a wolf in sheep's clothing, it speaks kindly, but has sharp teeth. It exists largely for power-hungry elite leaders with few qualms about mass murder. In fact, its "peace-keeping forces" are better known for killing and raping than for achieving peace.Back in 2003, Thomas Sowell wrote this wise warning, which our administration largely ignores:
"When you see a four-year-old bossing a two-year-old, you are seeing the fundamental problem of the human race -- and the reason so many idealistic political movements for a better world have ended in mass-murdering dictatorships. Giving leaders enough power to create 'social justice' is giving them enough power to destroy all justice, all freedom, and all human dignity.Hope in the midst of Tyranny
"Most people who read 'The Communist Manifesto' probably have no idea that it was written by a couple of young men who had never worked a day in their lives, and who nevertheless spoke boldly in the name of 'the workers.' [Actually, Marx had little sympathy for "the workers"] Similar offspring of inherited wealth have repeatedly provided the leadership of radical movements, with similar pretenses of speaking for 'the people.'"[3]
Like my grade-school classmates in Norway, I once memorized a poem titled "Flugten til America" (Fleeing to America.) It's a funny story about a little boy who has a bad day and decides to run away, follow his utopian dream and head for America. He packs his favorite things and starts his journey. Before long, his tummy gnaws and his legs are tired. So he abandons his dream and returns home to live with reality.
Today's global "dream" is fast becoming a tragic reality. And there's no simple way back to the America that brought genuine hope and freedom to people around the world for more than two hundred years. But don't say we weren't warned. God told us in His Word:
"...when you have eaten and are full, and have built beautiful houses and dwell in them... your heart is lifted up and you forget the Lord your God. ... you say in your heart, ‘My power and the might of my hand have gained me this wealth.’
"...if you by any means forget the Lord your God, and follow other gods... you shall surely perish. As the nations which the Lord destroys before you, so you shall perish, because you would not be obedient to the voice of the Lord your God."Deuteronomy 8:10-20Many claim to know God, including President Obama. Yet, few seem to really know the Biblical God who speaks to us through His Word. Obama illustrates this confusion well:
"I am a Christian.... I believe that there are many paths to the same place.... I am a great admirer of our founding charter... and its resolve to prevent disruptive strains of fundamentalism from taking root in this country.... I think Gandhi is a great example of a profoundly spiritual man who... never slipped into intolerance or dogma."[4]Such unwelcome "dogma" would probably include God's Word. That's sad, since it alone offers us genuine hope and guidelines. It tells us that if God's people would truly "humble themselves and pray"[4], discarding the corrupting idols of our times, He will surely have mercy on us and grant us a reprieve from the judgment we deserve. But is our thrill-addicted nation willing to repent and return to His Truth? "When the Son of Man comes, will He really find faith on the earth?” (Luke 18:7-8)
In these amoral times, even churches that proclaim faith in God are twisting the truth to accommodate popular culture, just as He warned long ago:
"The coming of the lawless one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs, and lying wonders, and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish, because they did not receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved. And for this reason God will send them strong delusion, that they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in unrighteousness." 2 Thessalonians 2: 9-12
"For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears... they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fable.2 Timothy 4:3-4Yet, through the coming darkness, the Light of God and His eternity will surely shine ever brighter for those who delight in His Word and "seek His face." Just as the night sky lights up when we leave our well-lit cities, so will we treasure His unwavering promises all the more when the world's bright illusions fade away. In the face of dangers, persecution and loss, His peace and provision become all the more precious!"...false christs and false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders to deceive, if possible, even the elect." Matthew 24:25
"...in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord." Romans 8:37-39
Note: This article's title is a reminder of Cry, The Beloved Country, a bestselling book by Alan Paton, a white, Christian South African schoolmaster, who loved his country deeply and grieved over its racial divisions. When he died in 1985, millions of copies had sold in over 20 languages around the world. He didn't live to see the end of apartheid, but in the years that followed Mandela's election, his beloved country didn't get "better." Instead it faced rising violence and lawlessness under its new socialist/Marxist leaders. In 1998, having faced repeated burglaries, assaults and terror, his widow, Anne Paton, moved to England.
Two memorable statements from the book:"I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating.""The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions."
Notes:
1. Daniel Henninger, "Obama's Business Buyout," Wall Street Journal, 2-25-10.
2. Thomas Sowell, "Random Thoughts," Townhall, 11-27-03. http://townhall.com/Common/PrintPage.aspx?g=87a24713-9408-4f45-8b09-0be8c795f1ef&t=c
3. Cathleen Falsani, Interview with State Sen. Barack Obama, March 27, 2004. http://blog.beliefnet.com/stevenwaldman/2008/11/obamas-interview-with-cathleen.html.
4. 2 Chronicles 7:14
Dallas
Morning News / Religion Blog
Texas Faith: Obama sparked
a conversation about communitarianism v. individualism: Where do you fall?
By
William McKenzie
The divide between
individualism and communitarianism flashed
to the surface last week during the presidential campaign. It came about after
President Obama rather famously told a Virginia audience:
”If you were successful,
somebody along the line gave you some help.
There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to
create this unbelievable American system that we have
that allowed you
to thrive.
Somebody invested in roads and bridges.
If you’ve got a
business, you didn’t build that. Somebody else made that happen. The
Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created
the Internet so that all the companies could make
money off the
Internet.”
What I would like to
hear from you this week is where you fall along
this spectrum. Does
your theology place you closer to the dignity of
the individual or to
the importance of the community?
If you lean toward
the individualism camp, how far can you really go
in that direction?
After all, businesses do need workers trained by
good teachers whose
salaries are paid by governments. And they need
roads on which to
move their products.
On the other hand, if
you lean toward the communitarian camp, how can
you assure that the
community doesn’t take precedent over the
individual? I’m being
somewhat extreme here, but communitarianism
run
amok has led to
individuals losing their personal freedoms. Or,
economically,
individuals get tired of seeing so much of their labor
taxed, they stop
investing or move their jobs offshore.
This may sound like
an esoteric question, but it really gets at the
heart of the
discussion now going on within the presidential campaign.
Communitarianism
or individualism? Where do you fall?
MATTHEW
WILSON, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Southern Methodist University
In a move that may
surprise some, I’d like to take up for President Obama a little bit here. I think his remarks have been taken out of
context by some of his critics to support their caricatured notion of “Obama
the socialist” — just as Mitt Romney’s remarks about liking to fire people and
not being concerned with the very poor were taken out of context by opponents
looking to advance a “Mr. Burns” caricature of the Republican.
What the president was
saying, in my view, is very reasonable and indisputably true — not that
entrepreneurs didn’t build their businesses, but that they didn’t individually
build the transportation, energy, education, and communication infrastructures
that allow business to function. Those are necessarily communal tasks
undertaken by government, and they are the sorts of classic public goods that
we ought to all be willing to pay reasonable taxes in order to support. In that sense, I suppose I am a communitarian, though this modest stance is more
an aversion to anarchy than an embrace of a leviathan state.
At the same time,
however, my Catholic theology tells me that a choice between the dignity of the
individual and the importance of community is a false dichotomy. Individuals find their greatest dignity and
fulfillment only in the context of communities — the family, the Church, the
neighborhood, the workplace, and, in a somewhat attenuated sense, the nation.
Within these
communities, there is no need that all be equal, either materially or in terms
of authority. Some will have more wealth
and power than others, often by virtue of their own greater talent, effort, and
tolerance for risk. These distinctions
are not immoral, so long as all members of the community remember their
inter-connectedness with other members, and so long as activity within the
community remains oriented toward the common good.
So I am an
individualist in the sense that I see no reason for successful people to
apologize for their attainments, but communitarian
in that I would ask them always to be conscious of how they are contributing to
the common good of the various communities of which they are a part–including
the nation.
AMY MARTIN,
Executive director, Earth Rhythms; Writer/editor, Moonlady Media
Where are the darn
space alien invaders when you need them? That just may be the only thing that
will knock us out of our narcissistic stupor. We’ve had centuries and centuries
of creating community by rallying to defeat a common enemy. Attempts to make
the other political party, religion, race or country into the enemy get more
tired and vacuous every day, especially to those under 25. In this new world of
global knowledge and intricate awareness, we are facing the end of us vs. them.
But what fun is that?
Admit that they are us? Consideration impinges on our freedom and most
Americans hate nothing more. Once you believe that we — plants, animals and
humans alike — are all one, that our actions impact others, it changes
everything. It calls us to act with integrity as to what we drive and what we
eat, the way we develop our cities and treat our wild lands, and the way we
treat each other.
We go through life
with blinders and earplugs, filters and deflectors, doing the dance of denial
to this one inescapable fact: We are all in this together. One planet. One
people.
Don’t believe me?
Believe physics that states that on the atomic level there is no separation
between physical entities, that while the eye sees a break between my foot ends
and the floor an electron microscope does not. Or learn from quantum physics
where sub-atomic particles can be so entwined that stimulus to one can be felt
by another even if it’s thousands of miles away. Or listen to biology that
holds the Earth to be one intricately interconnected ecosystem, that actions in
one area impacts many others downwind, downstream or down into the soil. “We
are here to awaken from our illusion of separateness.”―Thich Nhat Hanh
JOE CLIFFORD,
Head of Staff and Senior Minister, First Presbyterian Church of Dallas
Community or
individual? My theology would answer “yes.”
This is a
dialectic. It’s not an either-or; it’s a both-and.
Ignoring one side of
the dialectic causes trouble.
Emphasizing only the community without
regard for the
individual leads to communitarianism,
or its shorter
form —
communism. Emphasizing the individual
without any regard to the
common good leaves us
living by the law of the jungle-only the strong
survive. Neither represents a world in which I want to
live.
In the Lone Star
State, we’ve historically emphasized individual
liberties over
community responsibility. Unfortunately
this has led to
our state ranking
near the bottom in many measures of a healthy
community, including
education, access to healthcare, and crime rates.
For example, in the
latest round of the state budget negotiations, the
legislature chose
slashing education in order to keep $8 billion in a
“rainy day
fund.” In Dallas this directly
contributed to the closing of
11 schools, mostly in
lower income neighborhoods. Many of
these schools
earned one of the top
two rankings by state standards. But we
chose to shut them
down rather than
spend the money to provide access to exemplary
education for
children living in poverty. My faith
teaches God judges
us on the basis of
how we treat the least of these. I’m
afraid Texas
doesn’t measure up
very well in this regard.
Which side of the
spectrum needs emphasis to restore balance at this
time in our
history? I believe individuals must take
more
responsibility for the
good of our community.
WILLIAM
LAWRENCE, Dean and Professor of American Church History, Perkins School of
Theology, Southern Methodist University
While many Christians
celebrate the triumph of the individual who comes to faith by accepting Jesus
as Lord and who overcomes the wages of sin by professing faith in Christ, the
pages of the New Testament clearly testify that the community is more important
than the individual. The book of Acts describes the early church as a community
in which “no one claimed private ownership of any possessions, but everything
they owned was held in common.” The gifts of the Holy Spirit, according to
Romans and I Corinthians, are blessings bestowed on the community first and
then are expressed through individuals. The letter to the Hebrews describes the
long journey of faith through many generations and concludes that “we are
surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses.”
Political ideologies
may emphasize the unfettered freedom of the individual to survive, thrive, and
drive by the values of personal thoughts or private feelings. This was the
conclusion that a desperate, starving, suffering Scarlett O’Hara reached in the
novel Gone with the Wind. She said she would lie, cheat, steal, even kill if
she had to, but she would never be hungry again. The second half of her story
is that she did exactly that. And she grew rich, well-fed, and alone.
The community does
take precedence over the individual. Rush Limbaugh can say whatever he wants to
say, but only because the nation has granted broadcasters a license to use some
of the band width in the radio spectrum and because a community of advertisers
pays him to say it. Walmart has built a mammoth network of stores because the
country has constructed a highway system for its trucks to use and has
protected air quality so that its customers can breathe in its vast parking
lots.
The best-known words
of the Apostle Paul in the New Testament make clear that individual actions, no
matter how mighty or monumental, are meaningless apart from love. And love is
what creates community. So without the community, individuals are just noisy
gongs and clanging cymbals.
JIM DENISON,
Theologian-in-Residence, Texas Baptist Convention and President, Denison Forum
on Truth and Culture
When Islamic terrorists
attacked our nation on 9-11, a communitarian
impulse swept the country. I was senior pastor of Park Cities Baptist Church at
the time; we held a
community service two
nights later that packed our 2,200 seat auditorium.
In engaging common
enemies, Scripture encourages us to stand together. Israel defeated
her foes in Canaan
when she fought as a nation; she was defeated when individualism
corrupted her
collective commitment to God. In fighting our spiritual enemies, Christians
are to function as a
body with many members (1 Corinthians 12:27), a vine with many
branches (John 15:5).
Conversely, a
personal relationship with God cannot be created by communitarian
activity. “You must
be born again” was Jesus’ statement to an individual (John 3:7).
Collective spirituality
can encourage individual faith, but it cannot produce or replace it.
We will stand
individually before God one day in judgment (2 Corinthians 5:10). When
we substitute public
religion for personal relationship, we harm both.
Our question points
to two impulses imbedded in the national ethos. Our founders shed
the shackles of
monarchy for a land where “all men are created equal.” But in declaring
their independence
and individuality, they chose to “mutually pledge to each other our
Lives, our Fortunes,
and our sacred Honor.”
I predict that our
question will be decisive for the presidential election. If more voters
in swing states
believe that governmental action can mitigate our problems, President
Obama will be
reelected. If more believe that government should be reduced so
individuals can
respond to our challenges, Mitt Romney will be our next president.
The election will be
over in November, but the debate in America between these
worldviews will never
end.
GORDON K.
WRIGHT, Dallas attorney and a North Texas leader of The Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints
We are each a child
of God and are each important to Him. He
knows us, each one, and loves us. As
such our individual worth is great. It is
not in seeking personal greatness, however, that we achieve our potential as
disciples of Christ. Jesus taught His
followers that they must lose their lives in the service of others, and that
thereby they could truly find their lives.
It is in the service of others that individuals achieve their best work.
Each of us has been
given agency to choose for ourselves how we will act given our
circumstances. Individuals cannot always
choose our situation or the consequences of choices each makes; they can choose
how to act. God has blessed us with
families, friends and others whom we may choose to serve. Such service expands and deepens us and makes
us more fully followers of Jesus. He was
our perfect Example. The Scriptures
record His constant service to others and His teaching that we must serve and
help one another. He recognized the
value of the individual — often pausing to teach and heal and bless those
individuals not well served by their community.
He taught His followers to do the same.
Individuality is
brought more fully to fruition when individuals choose to serve and strengthen
others.
HOWARD COHEN,
Lecturer in Jewish/Christian Relations and member of Congregation Shearith
Israel and Congregation Beth Torah, Dallas
I am glad you quoted
the president’s entire statement and not the adumbrated half-truth that has
been quoted in the opposition’s campaign ads.
What reasonable
person can deny that those who claim they are entirely “self-made,” having
achieved economic independence entirely through their own efforts are
exhibiting an arrogance that flies in the face of reality? Can anyone deny the
truth about teachers who helped us along the way, or tax supported colleges
that gave us the tools to succeed at our crafts, or the scholarships that
helped pay our way? Can any successful business person deny the role that
government regulations played in protecting their contracts, insuring that
their competitors were held to high standards so as to not undercut their
efforts, protecting their patented inventions? Could any business succeed without
the infrastructure created by public funds; roads, bridges, airports, sea
ports, mass transit, railroads. Can any business exist in the absence of a
community of customers, vendors, employees, and investors? Not only does it
take a village to raise a child, but it takes an economically viable community
to raise a business.
The response to the remarks made by the
president by Mr. Romney that he is a self-made man because he did not inherit
his fortune is self-centered and absurd. Did he not benefit in a substantial
way in the 1960’s by being the son of a governor who was making $500,000 a year
when he ran? Did he have to work while attending Stanford and Harvard? How
heavy a debt burden did he carry after graduating? Is it possible that all of
that gave him a leg up when he applied to those schools and his first job? That
is not to say that he didn’t accomplish much through his hard work and brain
power, but self-made, independent of the help of others, both family and the
public?
As is true of most
political and religious positions, each extreme has its problems. Communitarianism can run amok. Socialism fails
because it destroys the drive of the individual to achieve. Individualism in
the extreme, I’m ok so you’re ok, I have mine and the rest be damned, is as
tyrannical and dictatorial as is communism.
We have never been
close to either extreme in this country, and I disagree that “it really gets at
the heart of the discussion now going on within the presidential campaign.” The
president is not seeking unbridled communitarianism,
and Mr. Romney’s longing for an American individualism that is devoid of
government/public aid to the individual is, historically speaking, a fiction.
RIC
DEXTER, Nichiren Buddhist area leader,
Soka Gakkai-USA
First, our prayers go
out to the victims, families, and survivors of the tragic event in Colorado.
Buddhist responses to
either/or questions often point to the third path. In Buddhism we speak of
striving to become “many in body, one in mind,” a state where people are encouraged
to develop their individuality while working towards the common good. Looking
at the question from that perspective it would seem that we fall in the camp of
communitarianism through
individualism.
In 1276 the Great
Sage Nichiren wrote a letter teaching the importance of repaying debts of
gratitude. Citing an early Buddhist sutra he points out that we owe a debt of
gratitude to our parents, to our teacher, to our country, and to all living
beings.
At first glance it
may appear that the sutra enjoins us to follow what our parents request, our
teacher requires, our government demands and what everyone else expects.
Nichiren explains however that to repay those debts you must grow as a person
of wisdom. That is, without growing as an individual you cannot fulfill your
obligations to society.
In his 2006 peace
proposal to the United Nations Daisaku Ikeda said “We must not lose sight of
the fact that the protagonists of any creative restructuring of society will be
individual citizens.” and “It is through the strong will and desire of each of
us to actively participate in social relations that society coalesces and can
exist as a functional whole.”
Professor de Bary of
Columbia University explained “A person as most truly him or herself when most
fully in communion with other selves.” Individualism serves the community.
Without individualism our society will stagnate, without recognition of our
responsibility to others our society will die.
CYNTHIA RIGBY,
W.C. Brown Professor of Theology, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
I believe that –
ideally – individualism and communitarianism
are not at odds with each other. Here’s
how I think about this, theologically speaking:
(1) Who God is tells
us something about the nature of all things; of all existence; (2) From a
Christian perspective, God is Trinity.
As the triune three-in-one, God is not only three “individuals,” but
also one “community” of individuals; (3) God’s individuality (i.e., as the Father who
is not the Son or the Spirit, the Son who is not the Father or the Spirit, and
the Spirit who is not the Father or the Son) is in no way at odds with God as
community (i.e., the three are one, perfectly indwelling each other’s’
lives); (4) We are made in the image of
this God to live, as God does, with no conflict between our individuality and
communal life. (I see this harmony
reflected, for example, in Adam’s joyful exclamation to Eve: “you are bone of
my bones, and flesh of my flesh!”. The two are differentiated individuals whose
individuality – at least at this point in the narrative! – actually enhances
their unity/communal existence).
Something, of course,
went awry with our living into the fullness of our creation in God’s
image. Theologians call it “The
Fall”. Whatever you call it, Adam moved
from “bone of my bones, flesh of my flesh!” to “She made me do it!”. Individual and communal concerns have played
tug-of-war ever since.
In my view, politics
promote the flourishing of life whenever they come closer to re-actualizing the
harmony between the three and the one, between individuals and the community,
that is part and parcel of God’s creative intention. Where we see such harmony in our lived
existence, we might even identify it as a form of redemption, a glimpse of
God’s Kingdom.
So I don’t look like
I’m trying to shirk answering the either/or posed in the question, I will also
add that I think the pendulum has swung way far over to the “individual” side
of the balance, here in the 21st century United States. If we are to honor our creation in God’s
triune image, more political emphasis must be given, in these days, to
nurturing our connectedness as a community.
MIKE GHOUSE,
President, Foundation for Pluralism, Dallas
From the moment one
is born to the moment life ends, a normal human being cannot survive without
nurturing. He cannot birth himself or bury himself. There is always another
human to be a part of the support system from birth to death.
We are indeed an
individual strand in the web of the community. Whatever affects the web affects
us (Chief Seattle), and vice versa. Global warming, mad cow disease and other
issues are communitarian in nature, but driven
by individuals in both directions.
Everyone’s psyche or
conscience is a product of one’s environment, and our morality is a necessity
of co-existence.
Strict individualism
works well, as long as one is capable of taking care of one’s self. However, no
individual is free from vulnerability of accidents, diseases, wars and old age.
We are dependent on others to produce or consume.
Religions have
contributed greatly towards building the communitarian
life where the invincible (lol) and vulnerable both can live his or her life to
the fullest extent possible.
Indeed morality is
the insurance for the safety of individuals in a community.
Where do I fall?
There is a balance to
be maintained in life. Justice is the core value and basis for the success of
any given society, without which no society can maintain its social, moral and
economic equilibrium.
One can get away with
murder or taking advantage of others. But that creates an imbalance and rots
the society with insecurity. It also puts the responsibility back on
individuals to restore that elusive and dynamic balance.
Individualism and communitarianism can be best understood by
looking at the extreme ideologies: responsible capitalism and communism.
Individuals have the burning desire to excel and to do well, and capitalism
becomes a catalyst for the prosperity of individuals that directly benefits the
society, through incentives to the individuals, whereas communism restricts
growth through forced equality. As capitalists we need to think about our own
safety in the long haul caused by inequalities.
If freedom and
justice are the core values of a given society, we need not worry about communitarianism or individualism. Both
complement each other.
DARRELL BOCK,
Senior Research Professor of New Testament Studies, Dallas Theological Seminary
As with many things,
we need both. We need individuals who are honored by the community for who they
are, made in God’s image, and we also need an individual’s appreciation of what
they are to give to the community which often requires personal sacrifice.
Our Western culture
has tended to emphasize the individual to the point where they are so independent
the community suffers. Scripture emphasizes corporate identity and what one
does as a part of it. The assumption is that what is being asked of the
individuals are worth it because God is behind it. Difficulty comes when a
community’s goal are not positive, then the community can abusive or at least,
misguided. So we need a call for balance and judgment in how these two
important concerns interact.
The divide between
individualism and communitarianism
flashed to the surface last week during the presidential campaign. It came
about after President Obama rather famously told a Virginia audience. ”If you
were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great
teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable
American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in
roads and bridges. If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that. Somebody
else made that happen. The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government
research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the
Internet.”
This may sound like
an esoteric question, but it really gets at the heart of the discussion now
going on within the presidential campaign. Communitarianism
or individualism? Where do you fall?
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MIKE GHOUSE, President,
Foundation for Pluralism, Dallas
From the moment one
is born to the moment life ends, a normal human being cannot survive without
nurturing. He cannot birth himself or bury himself. There is always another
human to be a part of the support system from birth to death.
We are indeed an
individual strand in the web of the community. Whatever affects the web affects
us (Chief Seattle), and vice versa. Global warming, mad cow disease and other
issues are communitarian in nature, but driven
by individuals in both directions.
Everyone’s psyche or
conscience is a product of one’s environment, and our morality is a necessity
of co-existence.
Strict individualism
works well, as long as one is capable of taking care of one’s self. However, no
individual is free from vulnerability of accidents, diseases, wars and old age.
We are dependent on others to produce or consume.
Religions have
contributed greatly towards building the communitarian
life where the invincible (lol) and vulnerable both can live his or her life to
the fullest extent possible.
Indeed morality is
the insurance for the safety of individuals in a community.
Where do I fall?
There is a balance to
be maintained in life. Justice is the core value and basis for the success of
any given society, without which no society can maintain its social, moral and
economic equilibrium.
One can get away with
murder or taking advantage of others. But that creates an imbalance and rots
the society with insecurity. It also puts the responsibility back on
individuals to restore that elusive and dynamic balance.
Individualism and communitarianism can be best understood by
looking at the extreme ideologies: responsible capitalism and communism.
Individuals have the burning desire to excel and to do well, and capitalism
becomes a catalyst for the prosperity of individuals that directly benefits the
society, through incentives to the individuals, whereas communism restricts
growth through forced equality. As capitalists we need to think about our own
safety in the long haul caused by inequalities.
If freedom and
justice are the core values of a given society, we need not worry about communitarianism or individualism. Both
complement each other.
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IPCC Admits Its Past
Reports Were Junk
N.B. A reader
reported being unable to find my IAC quotations in the IAC report. I checked
and discovered that the version of the IAC report I cite was a
"pre-publication version" posted online at the time the report was
first announced. That version can be found at
http://heartland.org/sites/all/modules/custom/heartland_migration/files/pdfs/28336.pdf
That was the only
version of the IAC report available when I wrote about it at the time it was
released, on 8/31/2010. I confess, I pulled up that unpublished essay and
modified it when the IPCC issued its news release some two weeks ago, creating
the article that appears here at American Thinker. It did not occur to me that
the final version of the report would differ so much from the pre-publication version
as to cause this problem.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/07/ipcc_admits_its_past_reports_were_junk.html#ixzz21T6QIU00
I leave it to others
to speculate on why the IAC apparently watered down its criticism of the IPCC
to the point of making these criticisms almost invisible in the final report. I
also note that in the 8/31/2010 essay, I offered the following caveat, which
also applies to this article but perhaps should not have gone unsaid:
The report is written in the common language of academics commenting on
one another's shortcomings. Recommendations to "strengthen" and
"improve" put a positive spin on findings that reveal that current
management and review systems are weak, broken, or even corrupt. It takes a
little reading between the lines to realize what faults were discovered and
being reported.
On June 27, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a
statement saying it had "complete[d] the process of implementation of a
set of recommendations issued in August 2010 by the InterAcademy Council (IAC),
the group created by the world's science academies to provide advice to
international bodies."
Hidden behind this
seemingly routine update on bureaucratic processes is an astonishing and
entirely unreported story. The IPCC is
the world's most prominent source of alarmist predictions and claims about
man-made global warming. Its four
reports (a fifth report is scheduled for release in various parts in 2013 and
2014) are cited by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in the U.S. and by
national academies of science around the world as "proof" that the
global warming of the past five or so decades was both man-made and evidence of
a mounting crisis.
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above link…}
The Science of Early
Childhood Development
Closing the Gap Between
What We Know and What We Do
National Scientific
Council
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Developing Child at Harvard University
Invisible Serfs
Collar
Blending Sustainability
and Education to Gain Arational, Nonlinear Minds and New Behaviors
For me, the US discussion over the
Common Core national standards and content feels like a “Look Squirrel!” cry to
redirect our attention from what is really going on. That’s partly because I
track these education shifts globally and over time so I can see the actual
template. More importantly, I think, is all the different subjects I track
every day to catch how education fits into a much broader planned
transformation. When you are also reading the planned economic and social
changes that treat the economy and the environment as a co-dependent Ecosystem
in need of governmental redesign around the declaration that “Spaceship Earth
faces an ‘all hands on deck’ emergency”, you see the preferred redesign tool of
education differently. Plus there are always multiple pages just on how to use
education to create the desired values, attitudes, minds, and behaviors.
Likewise it is hard to pretend Common
Core is about content when I read yet another report on creating this new
Ecosystem. This time it refers to people, that’s you and me and all those
captive students, and our behaviors, which ought to be free and based on
personal decisions, as “sociotechnical systems.” That’s from this summer’s fun
report on using the computer and IT industries to promote “greening through
IT.” It turns out that a different kind
of future mind is key to the “massive cultural, social, political, and economic
changes” self-interested politicians and bureaucrats and their Big Business
allies are relying on for this lucrative for them planned redirection. I guess
that gives new meaning to education for future citizenship. Really not about
the Bill of Rights or why the Founding Fathers set up a republic and a federal
system.
Following Paul Ehrlich’s co-author
from the previous post on new mindedness, I located a 1995 book, The Axemaker’s Gift, laying out the
desire to move back to the “primitive” intuitive mind lost when certain humans
began creating tools like axes or the phonetic alphabet. Or mathematical
symbols and explanations for real-world phenomena. These inventions and
innovations can create artificial private mental worlds or a means of
artificially changing the environment. They also foster specialist knowledge
that is not accessible to everyone. According to the book it is that rational,
logical axemaker’s mind that created the modern world. And they do not like it
one bit. The sequential, analytical mind that can create innovations like the
ax or the printing press or the combustion engine is precisely what has been
and is under attack. It certainly puts the so-called Reading Wars and Math Wars
in a new light, doesn’t it?
Here’s the kind of thinking that the
authors, James Burke and Robert Ornstein, defined as “arational” from our title
and want to get us back to. They believe “axemaker gifts” unnaturally alter the
environment and would like the developed West to shift back to a more natural
relationship with the environment and self-sufficient economies that reject
fossil fuels. Since we might not be willing to go along, the decision gets made
for us by pushing initiatives like digital literacy and Competency and 21st Century
Skills and Learner Outcomes in education, K-12 and higher ed, that have planned
aspects the typical person is unlikely to appreciate. At least in time. In this
vision “Knowledge would then be the experience of having traveled on the web.” In case that dramatic statement is not
enough, the computer will allow everyone access to information and data and
“users’ would not need to ‘know’ anything.” It turns out that interacting with
a computer if you have not yet developed an axemaker mind is conducive to never
developing one.
I am not going to belabor the point
now except to mention that some of the digital literacy advocates are
simultaneously doing blurbs touting a successor to capitalism or that this new
kind of thinking is for a more pastoral, desired mid-21st century future.
Delivery of Common Core is being premised on all this IT technology being a
primary platform for the student and their daily interactions at school.
Advocates do not get to revel in the revenue potential of education and an economy
centered on sustainability principles and then pretend this is just about
individualizing education around the student’s interests. A suspect goal from
the beginning if you ask me. So we are now aware of the real focus of these
education reforms and we know what the consequences of previous attempts to
plan economies and alter human minds has been. It’s not good.
The report “Computing Research for
Sustainability” seems to assume that the problem with centrally planned and
directed economies in the past has been an inability to grapple with all the
relevant data for decision making. That computers can fix that problem and then
model desired plans and acceptable behaviors. If it sounds Orwellian and
delusional, it is. Or at least it is if you are in the Payor/manipulated class
and not the Beneficiary or Manipulator class. I am going to quote from these
plans for our future. I want you to recognize you are reading this post with an
axemaker mind. You are imagining this scenario I am describing and plugging in
your own life experiences to understand how disastrous it will be. You have
more factual knowledge than virtually any teenager is getting from their
education anymore. So imagine this planned approach for an intuitive mind
trained to respond from emotion to visuals (that’s my snark in parentheses):
“suppose there was a network
supporting online deliberation among scientists concerned with sustainability
(So our future planners will be the grantmaking class that brought us
ClimateGate) for developing key points, areas of strong consensus, areas of
disagreement, and supporting evidence (does anyone recall a degree program that
would equip anyone to do a good job at this? These arrogant grantees would not
know what they do not know). Those deliberations would produce a sustainability action agenda that could be introduced to the public by
means of interesting interactive
environments designed to appeal to
those of all ages. . . One highlight of this system would be a series of
consensus news stories, perhaps on a weekly basis. These stories could be based
on agenda items created by scientists and rated by public interest.”
We will only know what we are
supposed to know to create a consensus for the already planned social and
economic policies. And first and foremost to get to this imagined new future is
to create new motivating values and a different mindset to filter experiences.
So we get a new curriculum and new ways of measuring learning and different
classroom activities in order to try to shift students away from logical,
analytical, fact-filled minds that create their own conceptual understandings.
That creates independence and really helps define each person’s individuality.
If you wonder why these initiatives are going on all over the world now, apart
from the UN and OECD and the green economy push, I think yet another report
this week has more answers.
It declared that both advanced as
well as emerging nations “are developing and pursuing policies and programs
that are in many cases less constrained by ideological limitations on the role
of government and the concept of free
market economics.”
That’s the real
reason new minds are needed. It’s the same reason slaves were not to be taught
how to read. Our political class and their cronies think we need minds of
servitude. There are to be no more axemakers gifts without official permission.
Invisible Serfs
Collar
How Disabilities Law is
Already Being Used To Gain Ehrlich’s New Mind and the Future Earth Economy
By Robin Eubanks
Winston Churchill presciently
observed that “The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are
likely to see.” That’s the irony to the argument that the world is now changing
so fast that students no longer need actual personal knowledge of what has gone
before. What worked well and what led consistently to catastrophe. In fact if
the world is in flux to a significant degree, that calls for more factual
knowledge, not less. Instead, of the absurd argument now that relevance
involves real world problems or concrete situations from a student’s everyday
life, relevant knowledge is best obtained
from what has endured over time. Guideposts of personal living that have
consistently led to prosperity to be emulated or disaster to be avoided. In
either case, familiarity and appreciation for what works, and does not, and why
should be the essence of education, K-12 or higher ed, academic or vocational.
When I wrote “Learning to Learn” on
July 18 I was relying on the Small Planet
book for the discussion of New Minds.
The actual copy of New World New Mind: Moving Toward Conscious
Evolution (1989) was in transit though. When it arrived I discovered a
book that was far more graphic than I would ever have imagined that tied
together so much of the changes in education, the economy, society, culture
itself, and US and Western political systems we have been discussing in
numerous posts. All in one place. It explained ed reforms in the 90s and the
entire Sustainability push over the past 20 years and current efforts in all
these areas. For now there are two hugely important aspects of the book we must
appreciate immediately.
The first is the repeated assertion
(with co-author Robert Ornstein) that the “past is no longer prologue.” To be more explicit:
“Learning about the past–the
knowledge, the ideas, the concerns–is useful only insofar as the past perseveres
into the present.” (284)
I guess no child ever again needs to
learn about castles, armor or what led to the Fall of the Roman Empire. In
fact, the book goes on, with plans for designing and creating “an unprecedented
new world,”
“Getting ‘the basics’ is important,
but getting a new curriculum is even more so.” (195)
Like the Common Core? 21st Century
Skills? Outcomes Based Education? OECD’s Competency? That’s the curriculum to
create “new mindedness” which will take “a major worldwide cultural effort.” If
only the authors had access to vehicles like UNESCO or the UN Environmental
Programme (UNEP) or the International Council for Science (ICSU) or the
International Social Science Council (ISSC). Why wait. That’s the other key
aspect of the book that we really need to talk about now. Listing John P
Holdren of the Energy and Resources Group at UC-Berkeley as a person to thank
on the Acknowledgments page. Citing the Ehrlich-Holdren book from 1988 on The
Cassandra Conference to provide “early warning of humanity’s building
population-resource-environment problems.”
{Read more at the above link…}
Invisible Serfs Collar
Gypsy Principals, Gypsy
Supers, and Engrenage: 3 More Superb Things to Know
Education reform doesn’t have to be
doom and gloom. Unfortunately, we will have to know what doesn’t work and why
before we can get to what I call ed reform for growth. Changes in instructional
policies and practices that can get us back to widespread literacy (hint we
aren’t actually even trying to teach reading effectively) and create graduates
who have knowledge and skills employers actually want to pay them for. Or who
can create their own jobs because they have the spirit of genuine innovation
and the deep expertise to fuel it. Maybe then we can look back on these dark
days of the Common Core Deception and laughingly play a new game.
I’m calling it the “You knew you had
a Gypsy Principal when [Fill in the blank]. I’ll start. You know you have a
Gypsy Principal when they announce at their first meeting with parents that
they are there to be a Change Agent. And then in almost the same breath, they
mention “while I am here.” In other words, they are just passing through to
impose radical change in classroom practices and to gut the transmission of the
cultural knowledge of the ages. No sticking around long term to deal with the
real consequences of such mind arson. The willingness to impose such policies
and practices on a school then becomes the resume empowering stepping stone to
a bigger school or a central office job. More money. Bigger title. And once you
become a vision enforcer at these central offices committed to change layoffs
due to budget shortfalls are for the classroom teachers. You have successfully
joined the protected class of visionary, enforcing, overcompensated for what
you know and do, bureaucrats.
There is a slight variation of this
game we can see in school districts all over the US. ” You know you have a
Gypsy Super when [ . . .]” For the Gypsy Super version you look at the
instructional practices and philosophy of the school district they are coming
from. Then compare it with what was going on in the school district that just
hired them. Usually based on a sales pitch to the school board where the
candidate miraculously Knew Just the Right Things to Say to fit with the
Board’s current concerns. The previous school district will always have a more
radical version of outcomes-based education (OBE) than the new school district.
The old district thus provides the operational game plan for what is about to
happen to the schools, teachers, and taxpayers.
Like it or not. Consensual or not.
Unappreciated, ambiguous, misunderstood terms like “effective schools” or
“continuous improvement” abound. Not known to the school board. But a required
understanding and commitment to act for anyone with an advanced education
degree. Especially an Educational Leadership doctorate. Created specifically to
be in a position to enact the John Dewey/Professor Bode political vision for
education.
So here are some specific examples of
the Gypsy Super phenomenon. Please feel free to leave comments or send me a
covert email if you have a district or super you think also qualifies. These
are just examples I currently have my eye on where I have read the plans in the
home districts and new districts. Fulton County, Georgia and Cobb County,
Georgia (large school districts in the metro Atlanta area) hire new supers from
Charlotte-Mecklenberg and Dallas, Texas. Looking at those districts we can see
the practices and policies that made up Transitional OBE in the old William
Spady/Spence Rogers template from the 90s. New names. Broken Up but still same
function and overall outcomes.
So what happens then in Charlotte and
Dallas? Well, miraculously enough, if we look at Washoe County, Nevada (Reno)
we find a plan where Charlotte’s new Super laid out the vision, mission, Core
Beliefs, and Theory of Action. All together it looks strikingly like the
Transformational form of OBE from the 90s. Likewise, when we read the new
Dallas Super’s Destination 2020 Plan from May 10, 2012 we find much of the same
plans we just saw in Washoe. And the announcement this is to be
transformational. And the reliance on principals to be the adopters and
enforcers of these reforms on classroom teachers. In fact the Dallas plan says
principals only have ONE YEAR to prove they can move teachers to a student
centered approach. And the super came from Colorado Springs which had a more
radical version of OBE than Dallas already in place.
Colorado school districts always do.
It was where the various forms of OBE were piloted in the 80s and 90s. It has
the ed lab, McREL, which hatches and renames many of the OBE core principles.
Especially when notoriety strikes. It also has something called the Colorado
Partnership for Educational Renewal that also drives radical views for politicizing
the purpose of education.
And engrenage? I borrowed that new to me but most
excellent term from a British think tank worried about the piecemeal steps that
together shut down economic growth in the name of maybe, possibly, influencing
the environment. Radical ed reform in the US is based on changing the nature of
our economy so I have to keep my eye on Green Growth as well. Lucky me. They define engrenage as gearing. It
is the process by which a body, local, state, national, or international, racks
up laws or policies or regulations that appear separate and stand alone and
harmless on their own. They actually fit though perfectly with other measures
also being adopted. You end up with something you would never have gone along
with if you could have seen the whole picture.
engrenage
Noun
engrenage m (plural engrenages)
1. gear (a wheel with grooves)
2. (figuratively) inescapable sequence of events
The whole picture I operate from
since I have the guidebook. Transformational OBE presented itself under its own
name in the 90s. The popular outcry prevented the adoption in the US although
it did get adopted in other countries then. It’s back under new names and
pieces, engrenage style.
Being pushed and adopted by Gypsy Supers and their cooperating Gypsy
Principals.
Adask’s Law
THE PROFIT OF
INJUSTICE
Do We All Work for
Central Bankers?
CNBC says Yes.
“We are absolutely
slaves to the central bankers.”
The central banks are
the backbone of the New World Order. We
are working for a fiat currency issued by the U.S.’s central bank (Federal
Reserve) that is not a payment or even a promise to pay.
Real Currencies
The Few Banks that Own
All
In the autumn of 2011
an already legendary study by a number of Swiss scientists revealed that a
small number of banks controlled a decisive stake in the globe’s economy. The
idea that the banks are a cartel and that this cartel controls the economy is
now a scientifically quantified matter of record.
E. C. Riegel Blog
#12 A Timely Rebuke to
Statists and Statism
A survey of the written or collected
utterances of statists might turn up any number of quotations that reference
the same ideas, however this particular quote from Cass Sunstein illustrates
many of the main points for our purposes.
“In what sense is the money in our pockets and bank accounts
fully ‘ours’? Did we earn it by our own autonomous efforts? Could we have
inherited it without the assistance of probate courts? Do we save it without
the support of bank regulators? Could we spend it if there were no public
officials to coordinate the efforts and pool the resources of the community in
which we live? Without taxes, there would be no liberty. Without taxes there
would be no property. Without taxes, few of us would have any assets worth
defending. [It is] a dim fiction that some people enjoy and exercise their
rights without placing any burden whatsoever on the public… There is no liberty
without dependency.”
Cass Sunstein goes on to say,
“If government could not intervene effectively, none of the
individual rights to which Americans have become accustomed could be reliably
protected. This is why the overused distinction between 'negative' and
'positive' rights makes little sense. Rights to private property, freedom of
speech, immunity from police abuse, contractual liberty and free exercise of
religion—just as much as rights to Social Security, Medicare and food
stamps—are taxpayer-funded and government-managed social services designed to
improve collective and individual well-being.”
Breaking it all down:
“In what sense is the money in our pockets and bank accounts
fully ‘ours’?”
The short answer is that we know that
none of the money currently in use is ours and THAT's the problem. The longer
answer to Sunstein's first question is answered with the following irrefutable
facts;
1. All “money” that anyone ever uses
in the modern world is created by private institutions (central banks which
masquerade as public organizations, but are not) and hence all money really
“belongs” to them. If you are allowed to hold any of it for your own purposes,
they consider that a privilege they have deigned to grant you as a temporary
expedient to what they want; a endless return on their loans, usually created
out of thin air (not backed -collateralized- by any assets worth buying). All
this money was created as loans demanding the payment of interest, which itself
was not created. Since much of this debt also includes compounding of interest,
which is usury on steroids, an endless stream of income is produced for at the
most the service of clearing trading transactions. Nothing of any real value is
added and claims against things of real value (money) are kept artificially
scarce to benefit those with access to them.
Those who have not seen the
mathematical anomaly in usury will tell you that they expect the interest to be
covered through increased value created in the economy. But they still have not
seen that every last farthing of any money currently in use to buy the goods in
any economy and by which any value intended is to be recorded by the monetary
system, still has interest attached to it. So, ever paying it off completely is
an impossibility. This actually forms an invalid contact (a subject explained
in a future paper) and therefore is fraudulent to begin with. Realizing this
truth opens up a number of inevitable consequences.
2. The loaned money is “created” for
the purposes of the buyer purchasing something at the time the loan is made,
the money with which to pay the interest is NOT created and never will be. This
anomaly, the artificial scarcity of money thus enforced, causes everyone
(including governments) to go into debt to the “creators” of all money which
have their special relationships with governments guaranteed as a monopoly.
3. The vast majority of all these
loans are to governments which spend the money into the economy the way they
see fit, not the way their citizens, subjects or peoples see fit. This is a key
point to which I want all those who seek a return to money as defined in the
Constitution to consider. This key insight is directly tied back to E. C.
Riegel's incontestable observation that one person or organization cannot
determine what another person or organization might buy with their own money (which
they call into existence by their own will as every single individual has an
INALIENABLE right to do).
4. The interest payments on all
current forms of money are on the lives, property and personal intentions of
each individual human being under the jurisdiction of these governments. The
system, as it is presently designed, makes this public debt unpayable and this
debt thus becomes a perpetual noose of slavery on everyone. Liberty and slavery
are hardly the same thing, Cass.
Sunstein asks rhetorically,
“Did we earn it [money] by our own autonomous efforts?”
Actually Cass, a few of us did, by
making the decisions to freely associate ourselves with others in trade or some
other remunerative activity and taking the risks involved with our decisions as
a matter of mutual trust. Some of us unfortunately have spent our lives living
off the rest of society. There are three broad groups of such socioeconomic
parasites:
1. Those who owe their livelihood to
government: It doesn't start or stop with those who are pensioners or welfare
recipients, because those people were forced into these social welfare
arrangements with governments, for these governments had deliberately
intervened on behalf of special interests which distorted normal economic
processes such that were governments not to decide to take care of these
people, they would easily and quite quickly face revolution or a coup d'etat.
Were money the people's to create as they needed it, there would soon be no
need for any of these welfare government programs.
This then is our direct answer to
state imposed socialism, to give each individual human being the right to
create their own money and spend it as they see fit. Much then of what Sunstein
views as beneficial products of government; “Social Security, Medicare and food
stamps ... government-managed social services designed to improve collective
and individual well-being,” exerted through the FORCE of taxation and the
indebtedness to the present money creators, turn out to be subsidies to special
interests to ostensibly provide services to the public.
As all the world knows, nothing
really ever turns out well once the government gets involved. There are the
usual inefficiencies and irresponsibility to scale, which the statists and
their supporters (who all love the vast idols of bigness they have created and
imagine themselves important by association therewith) would prefer simply to
ignore. They have foisted one sort of bureaucratizing nonsense or another on
humanity for the better part of the last 200 years; “scientific” management,
the Soviet, etc. and still no one who deals with government ever believes they
are dealing with just other members of their own local community, but rather
the fronts for a cold heartless and corrupt machine. The bigger any enterprise
gets, the more inefficient and tyrannical it must become because control begins
to matter more than command; where the latter becomes impossible, the former
becomes a desperate imperative. But hubris brings any fool down eventually,
though it may take centuries for foolish ideas to reach the same fate.
2. Those who work for foundations, non-profits,
etc. are essentially living parasitically on the rest of society.
Not-for-profits, are essentially granted this status by the state, which
henceforth regulates their activities. Seen another way, all these foundations
are set up as tax dodges for the rich. The best solution for all concerned
would be to force them all to shut down, because we do not want or need any
overarching advice or management (a Soviet) to socially engineer things, hence
we regard much if not all of it, as the audacity of peculiar groups of people
who have never demonstrated they have the best interests of any but themselves
in mind.
3. The last group who deserve to be
considered social parasites are those who already have plenty of money who
refuse to live from their wealth, but rather insist that their idle
split-barter money deserves a reward. This too will be a subject for future
discussion.
“Could we have inherited it [money] without the assistance of
probate courts?”
Those familiar with Orwell realized
from the top that Sunstein was talking newspeak. The honest response to this
is, “you've got to be kidding!” No folks, he isn't kidding. Probate courts are
the creation of creditors, especially governments, to make sure they get paid
before everyone else in matters of inheritable estates above a certain nominal
money value. These courts are interlopers in the inheritance process and steal
estates for themselves and their cronies as is well known. Sunstein places the
state's corruption through these courts above the will of every single human
being. Under the present probate tyranny these issues are settled by FORCE upon
the natural inheritors of the donor who is prevented from passing his wealth
along to whomever he/she wishes.
“Do we save it [money] without the support of bank
regulators?”
Saving money is as usual not what
everyone has long believed or been taught to believe. First of all one has to
jettison all notions of gaining return on idle money by the usual means of
sharing the taking of unlawful interest (from funds which were never created in
the first place). Only increasing genuine value counts as a means of making
honest money.
An individual (a class A member of an
RMES by definition) or an organization (a class B member of an RMES by
recognition of all class A members in that RMES or by its elected
representatives) may be rewarded for any increases in value they produce and
exchange with other productive members. Perhaps Sunstein believes, as has been
proven incorrect by recent events, that bank regulators are responsible, or are
even capable of being responsible, to savers for the safety of their savings
from the machinations of bankers. Such is clearly not the case and there isn't
any real likelihood that confidence, such as Sunstein wishes the public would
all share, should return any time soon.
What honest savings, in money terms,
has always meant, is literally the taking of money out of circulation and putting
it away, stacking it up, for that time when one has enough to make larger
purchases. That's all savings has ever been. Anything more is strictly
speaking, a scam. Any bank will hold your money for you and pay you something
for holding it; a savings account. In this way they have built up their
reserves against which they may write loans many times greater than their
actual reserves; what is known as fractional reserve banking, the legally
enshrined fraud at the centre of the present rotten system. In this way, many
banks are already technically bankrupt, but you are supposedly protected from
any banker scams by what is called “deposit insurance.” No RMES account will
EVER need to be insured, because financing under an RMES will simply not be
permitted to operate relying on usury. This too will be the subject of a future
paper.
“Could we spend it [money] if there were no public officials
to coordinate the efforts and pool the resources of the community in which we
live?”
This too is some fantasy of statists
that nobody with any sense believes anymore. The fact is that under the present
monetary and financial system, these decisions are exercised by those who have
acquired their positions and influence, not through the scrupulous hard work
they'd like us to believe, earning the confidence of the people with genuine
unselfish concern, but largely through deceit, treachery and the assistance of
those who have already acquired such prominence. Brown nosing and other forms
of obsequious behaviour are well known to this author and typified in such
institutions. The desired attitude is sold to the public as “political
correctness” which takes most matters of serious controversy off the table as a
form of social censorship. Nobody, or not too many anyway, yet seem to realize
that this is a direct infringement of another inalienable right; to free
speech.
The fact is that since the prevailing
system is built on frauds, fallacies, follies and outright lies, all that has
been built up by the system are institutions and organizations which are
perforce rendered inevitably illegitimate. The clearest example is the
ubiquitous corporation's waiving of unlimited liability for damages under
prevailing laws regarding the organization of such businesses. Legitimate
business springs naturally from individuals engaged in trade or who are growing
or making things in expectation of selling them and in return obtaining the
SPLIT-BARTER money with which to provide what they want and need.
Many perhaps most vast international
corporations such as we see today are masquerading as productive (and even
profitable) because all the costs of damages to the environment or to customers
are rendered unrecoverable; contrary to what the public may believe, most
corporations do not pay their way, they bribe their way in and take from the
communities they serve by threatening to close down if certain costs of
operation aren't reduced. Were the scale of businesses smaller and made to
conform to the rules of nature, which do not allow for any limited liability,
much that contributes to social and environmental degradation would soon be
things of the past.
The notion of a benevolent public
servant alas dies hard, because we would all prefer to believe that someone
above us actually knows better and cares for us and has our best interests at
heart when this is demonstrably not the case at all. When the scales fall from
the eyes as they have for many, and more will come around to seeing it this way
as time permits, the public will tend to view most government officials as
pernicious troublemakers whose advice and counsel is not wanted, contributes
nothing of value and impedes human progress. They will be revealed as the
parasites they are; more who prefer taking by FORCE what does not belong to
them and returning “services” many may not need or even want.
Riegel admonished that no government
ever has anything worth buying if we had a choice and therefore they were
disqualified PERMANENTLY from ever being legitimately allowed to create money.
(See #9 Why Proposed Constitutional Amendments Will Not Work and Other Matters)
Then we come to certainly the most
audacious bursts of Orwellian newspeak in this entire quote:
“Without taxes, there would be no liberty. Without taxes
there would be no property. Without taxes, few of us would have any assets
worth defending. [It is] a dim fiction that some people enjoy and exercise
their rights without placing any burden whatsoever on the public… There is no
liberty without dependency.”
No liberty, property or assets worth
defending without taxes? This is like saying that when a robber comes forth to
steal what belongs to you, they are doing you a favour. Better include in there
when a government comes along and takes your sons and daughters (whether they
volunteer because the economy offers them no employment or they are drafted) to
train them to kill other people overseas and they often get killed themselves
into the bargain. Please folks, re-read Sunstein's words above and remember them
well.
There are many conceited dupes out
there who actually believe this stuff. We on the other hand postulate something
quite different. Liberty, property and assets are what belong to each of us
based on our own abilities to add value to society through GENUINE free trade,
unregulated by any “authority.” Moreover, each human being has an INALIENABLE
right to acquire by honest means, such property and assets as opportunity and
need permit and to pass them along to whomever are deemed worthy by the donor,
regardless of what anyone else may say in the matter.
Furthermore, it is accepted and
granted as among the inalienable rights of mankind to personally be willing to
defend what property, assets and liberty one has honestly acquired by force of
arms if necessary. That too is what the Sunsteins of this world are about; for
then, they can make their lies appear to be truth by monopoly of FORCE.
Consequently expect that they will seek any means necessary to deprive you of
your right to self-protection by keeping and bearing arms.
In closing we notice how Sunstein
twists sentiments and words in order to make subservience to government
authority seem noble and civilized when it is in fact weak and sniveling. But
what could one expect from one who might really honestly believe that liberty
is slavery and the state is God?
David Burton
FINIS
Where I Stand on
Philosophy and IT
By Frank Buytendijk
The Daily Bell
Her Majesty's Tax
Collector Tells Children to Snitch
These girls just want
to have spawn
Chicago Reader
The league of pregnant
schoolgirls
French teens flaunt the
power of pregnancy in 17 Girls
Joseph Sullivan,
principal of the high school in seaside Gloucester, Massachusetts, touched off
a media firestorm in June 2004 by telling Time magazine that the large number
of pregnant teens at his school that year—17 in a student body of 1,200—was
partly attributable to "seven or eight sophomore girls" who had
"made a pact to get pregnant and raise their babies together." After
this "pregnancy pact" went tabloid, Gloucester mayor Carolyn Kirk
convened a meeting of school and health officials and announced there was no
confirmation of a "blood-oath bond." Sullivan stood by his story,
citing reports from his teachers and a former school nurse at Gloucester High.
"The affected children need to be left alone with their parents and
families to deal with the consequences of their actions," Sullivan argued.
"I will not speak of this matter again."
Plenty of others
have. Since then the idea of teenagers banding together as young mothers has
generated a documentary (The Gloucester 18), a novel (Barbara Delinsky's Not My Daughter), a top-rated Lifetime
movie (The Pregnancy Pact), and, inevitably, an episode of Law & Order:
Special Victims Unit. Now it's even traveled across the Atlantic, returning to
our shores as 17 Girls, the writing and directing debut of French sisters
Delphine and Muriel Coulin (the movie screens this Sunday only as part of Music
Box's Chicago French Film Festival). I haven't seen any of these other
treatments (and I can't promise you I will), but I can say the Coulin sisters have
turned the story into something rather French—not a cautionary tale of society
unraveling but a drama of lower-class girls whose sweet sense of sorority
blooms into a misguided utopianism. For them pregnancy is power: making their
own babies, they can make their own world.
The Coulins gently
stress the communitarian aspect from the
very first shot, a dreamy montage of several dozen girls in their underwear
lining the walls as they wait for exams by the school nurse. Five
close friends emerge from the group, laughing and teasing each other. Jogging
outside with a gym class, they leap off the path into a gulley and take hits
off a hash joint as Camille (Louise Grinberg) confesses that a summertime fling
with a boy has left her two months pregnant. (For the most part, the Coulins
reveal the girls' names only as they get pregnant.) "We're always here for
you," declares Clementine (Yara Pilartz), the youngest, who adores the
older girl. With no dad, a neglectful working mother, and a brother serving in
Afghanistan, Camille doesn't think she has much going for her, so she decides
to keep the child. "It'll be cool," she tells her pals at the school
lunch table. "I'll have somebody who loves me my whole life,
unconditionally."
The Coulins have made
the coed high school realistically cruel and catty, and the idea of motherhood
as a great opportunity snakes it way through a complicated social maze of envy,
exclusion, and resentment. Camille and her friends rejecting dorky, redheaded
Florence (Roxane Duran), giggling loudly as she slinks away from their lunch
table. But after Florence learns about Camille's condition, she manages to
break into the clique by confessing to Camille that she's pregnant too.
Suddenly the outsider is in, sitting with the other girls as they revolve on a
children's ride in the park. Florence offers to share babysitting duties with
Camille, and before long Camille is urging the others to get pregnant too so
they can collect welfare, pool their funds, and share a home. "We'll be
free, happy," she tells them. "We'll be in charge. We'll get
respect." For a bunch of 15- and 16-year-old girls, the idea is
intoxicating.
What lured the press
to Gloucester originally was a proposal from the school clinic's medical
director and nurse practitioner that condoms be distributed to students; this
offended the heavily Catholic community. Set in Lorient, a town on the south
coast of Brittany, 17 Girls doesn't really deal with religion, but the Coulin
sisters venture pretty far out into the muddy political waters of teen
pregnancy. A school staff meeting over the supposed pregnancy pact quickly
fractures into a series of discordant personal opinions, with some teachers
taking the side of the girls. "Who are we to judge them?" asks one.
"First we must understand their gesture, it's political." Eventually
the parents discover what's going on, and a public meeting with the principal
turns ugly after the school nurse suggests installing a condom dispenser.
"Get them hotel rooms too!" jeers one father. A running joke of the
movie is that the girls are unified in their innocence while the adults are
divided by their experience.
The Coulins don't let
their teenage heroines off the hook, though—from the very beginning it's clear
these kids have no idea what they're facing as mothers. "Even your
goldfish went belly up!" exclaims Camille's mom when she learns about her
daughter's pregnancy. The girls go in a pack to get their ultrasound exams,
hugging and commiserating, but they don't take their health too seriously; even
in their midterm months they're still smoking, drinking, and getting high. They
fantasize about the great pad they'll have together, but when Clementine,
pregnant and underage, runs away from home, they install her in a sad,
dilapidated trailer on the beach. It proves so cold and unpleasant on a windy
night that Clementine calls her mother to come get her; the next shot shows her
lying on a couch at home, wearing a homemade T-shirt with the legend power over
her distended belly.
17 Girls is a
perfectly modern movie, smartly paced, with some great punk numbers by Izia
Higelin on the soundtrack. But the girls' radical rejection of the social order
kept reminding me of French films from the mid-30s—like Jean Vigo's Zero for
Conduct (1933), in which boys sow anarchy at a repressive boarding school, or
Jean Renoir's The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936), in which a workers'
cooperative takes over a publishing company. "You all lead your life not
realizing it's shit," Camille tells the school nurse (Noémie Lvovsky)
after she's been kicked out of school. "We're right to try something
else." With its seaside setting, the movie hardly lacks for water imagery,
and scenes of the heroines frolicking together on the beach pop with a youthful
sense of possibility. They're too young to realize that the only new world
they're creating will belong to the one in the stroller.
The Daily Mail
How Mitt Romney's $250m
fortune was built by two of England's most disreputable business figures
·
Newspaper boss Robert Maxwell and
Guinness fraudster Jack Lyons invested millions is Republican's first equity
fund at Bain & Company
·
Bain's British office was
subsequently caught up in Guinness scandal as advisers to the drinks firm
·
Romney under pressure to release tax
returns for the years before 2010 as Obama accuses him of profiteering from the
destruction of companies
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on First” at Bain Capital?
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Hallmarks of a False
Flag: Colorado University Held Identical Drill on Same Day as Aurora Theater
Mass Shooting, Mind Control, and Multiple Suspects
---
Thanks to some sharp
eyed friends who come from backgrounds in law enforcement, the military and
some who are seasoned hunters, the blood trail below takes on new significance. A number of people, whose opinion I
respect, advised me that the blood trail is consistent with someone who has
been severely injured, presumably by a gunshot wound. I am going out on a limb, but after
considerable analysis I think this is a fair conclusion based upon solid crime
scene evidence. Here is why:
1.
There are no bloody shoeprints, which one would expect to find if the
individual had just walked through a blood soaked crime scene. In other words whoever laid down this blood
trail was not tracking the blood of his victims, but probably his own
blood.
2.
The stride is about six feet from point to point, which would strongly
suggest that the person was running hard.
In this regard, the bloody impact marks are all in a line. In other words the tracks we see are not from
both feet. Just one foot... This would suggest that this person was
wounded in one leg or one foot.
3.
The blood spray is a V pattern and one blood line (the left) is longer
than the other. This would suggest that
this person suffered from a through and through gunshot wound, with the exit
wound being larger than the entrance wound.
A .40 caliber Glock Pistol?
This evidence strongly suggests that the
killer was wounded when he ran out of the theater. He then dumped his weapons at the door near
Holmes car, sprinted down the sidewalk for a distance of about 200 feet, and
then dumped the gas mask. (He probably
kept the mask in place to avoid identification by the surveillance closed
circuit cameras).
Some additional important questions:
What does the video cameras show? Is the blood on the sidewalk that of James
Holmes? And most important, is there any
blood on the shoes of James Holmes, the alleged shooter.
---
Jewish Press
Colorado Shooter Was
Camp Counselor for Jewish Big Brothers and Sisters
Free Dumb Nation
3 Colorado Shooters?
Bloody Footprints Run
Past James Holmes Car
Anonymous Liverpool
http://www.facebook.com/AnonLiverpool1 wrote: This is James Holmes car, parked
at the theater, right where it was when they found him. Notice the bloody
footprints running PAST his car. They go all the way down to the end of the
sidewalk at the end of the building, hundreds of feet past his car, to where
the gas mask was found and then stop abruptly. James Holmes was found in or
beside his car (Police reports vary on whether he was inside or beside it, but
all agree he was AT his car, either inside or beside it).
Do you see ANY bloody
footprints leading BACK to the car? Do you see any blood around the car? How
did he manage to shed his gear outside the theater door then run all the way to
the end of the building to drop his gas mask and then run all of the way back
to be there waiting for the police in the 90 seconds it took the cops to
arrive? And more importantly, WHY would he do that? And if he did do that, why
is there no trail of bloody footprints back to his car? Did he carry a bucket
of soapy water with him as he ran down the sidewalk so he could clean up?
Ignoring the obvious fact that he would not have had time to clean up, one
would still have to ask where is the stuff he cleaned up with? That sidewalk
ends at a road. It seems likely to me that someone ELSE did the shooting and
ran down the sidewalk and was picked up by yet a third person in a car.
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Batman murders. I’m not even sure I have their names matched up correctly to
their reports, so for no...
THE NAKED FEAR OF
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THE NAKED FEAR OF HEALTH FREEDOM by Jon
Rappoport www.nomorefakenews.com In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s an election
year… Usually, when politicians discover a large voting bloc that has no
champion, they move in like gold prospectors with a fever in their heads. Tap
that bloc; mine it; use it. H...
BIGGEST SECRET: HOLMES’
ACCOMPLICES O...
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DOCTORS? By Jon Rappoport July 25, 2012www.nomorefakenews.com Even a FOX news
affiliate is now asking who helped Holmes in the Batman murders in Aurora.
Where did Holmes get the money for all his weapons and gear purchases? Who
showed him how to rig his ap...
WERE THE BATMAN MURDERS
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WERE THE BATMAN MURDERS A COVERT OP? By Jon
Rappoport July 24, 2012www.nomorefakenews.com The obvious way to begin an
investigation is to look at the event itself for any obvious contradictions or
unexplained details. For example, in the Batman murders, we have two witnesses
who were in the theate...
David Icke Forum
Several links: James
Holmes & U.S. gov. research
Wayne Madsen Report
July 23-24, 2012 --
Aurora massacre: several links between James Holmes and U.S. government
research (Salk Institute involved in neurologically enhancing soldiers'
abilities on battlefield...connections to DARPA)
Dave Emory on Past
Gov’t Provocations and Mind Control Victims
Search: Tim Rifat
The Telegraph
Batman Colorado
shooting: James Holmes fixated by altered states of mind
James Holmes, the
alleged "Joker" gunman, described his fascination with altered states
of mind in a lecture to other students, and dosed up on prescription medication
before the atrocity, it emerged on Sunday.
Does this look like
something a broke PhD student could afford?
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Second Amendment Committee
SECOND AMENDMENT
COMMITTEE
P.0. Box 1776 -
HANFORD, CA. 93232
July 26, 2012
To: Senator Rand Paul
and others
OPEN LETTER
The historical fact
is that the “Bill of Rights” is not subject to the repeal, rescind, or revoking
process.
Obama has no
authority to sign a “Small Arms Treaty” and it is up to the Congress to inform
him of this fact! Further, if he chooses to sign this “purported treaty”
Congress should immediately call for his impeachment.
This is a republic!
In order to be a republic, the people within are armed citizens. Only then do
they hold the power and the authority that is required to maintain a republic.
American citizens have that power as written in the "Bill of Rights".
It is NOT subject to the repeal, rescind or the revoking process. The
"Bill of Rights" is the supreme law of the United States!
What the people do
not know is that a number of years ago a federal group, called the Law
Enforcement Assistance Administration falsified "the people's permission
for their firearms to be prohibited". The people did not give their
approval nor their permission, nevertheless, it was unlawfully entered into the
record, and can be found on the 340th page in the revised State Standards and
Goals. It was sneaked into the records without public approval or their
knowledge, which was supposed to be a requirement! There was none!
Even though this
false action is counterfeit, and without the permission of the people, this is
the basis upon which Barack Obama intends to sign the Small Arms Treaty. It
ties in with the law that John F. Kennedy before him signed in 1961 (which is
Public Law 87-297 that calls for "general and complete disarmament of the
United States "in a peaceful world"! Look it up in the Internet under
Public Law 87-297. This law is also unconstitutional!
Without the
permission of the people (the final authority in a republic), none of these
laws nor disarmament treaties are valid or operable. There never was any real
permission given by the people! The federal government is operating on a
counterfeit permission (so-called "permission" on Page 340) that they
drew up by themselves, and then sneaked into the record.
The people never
approved of Page 340 in the revised State Standards and Goals, which claims
that the people have given their permission for their firearms to be
prohibited. It was added without their knowledge. Disarming American citizens
is a scandalous fraud. Page 340 is available to be seen on my website. Check
out the titles in the list of topics. See Second Amendment Committee on the
Internet.
The Second Amendment
is still the supreme law of this land, and cannot be repealed, revoked or
rescinded -- or superseded -- by a phony treaty such as the Small Arms Treaty.
Rand Paul has been sent the government documents that perpetrated this fraud
and he needs your help to properly expose this fraud. Many others also have
copies of the documents that prove and expose this fraud. So keep your cool. If
the people get hostile, Obama will call for martial law and set the
Constitution aside. Do not give him reason to do this. The facts will prove
your constitutional rights still exist!
If Obama signs
anything on the 27th of July, it is another scandalous act that must be
declared by good federal legislators to be another fraud! Please spread the
word.
Thanks,
Bernadine
Subject: Reply from
Senator Rand Paul
From: "U.S.
Senator Rand Paul" <senator@paul.senate.gov>
Date: 7/26/2012 9:34
AM
To:
liberty89@libertygunrights.com
July 26, 2012
Dear Mrs. Smith,
Thank you for taking
the time to contact me regarding the United Nations Arms Trade Treaty. I appreciate
hearing your thoughts on this issue.
In 2009, U.S.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton reversed the Bush Administration's stance
and said the United States government would be open to talks regarding a United
Nations (UN) Arms Trade Treaty (An). UN delegates have been pushing for
international standards to control the import, export and transfer of
conventional weapons, including small arms such as handguns and rifles, for
many years. ATT has the possibility of threatening regulations on private firearms
ownership within the United States.
In February 2012, UN
delegates completed their formal round of preparation talks to discuss how the
negations of ATT will take place before talks begin in July 2012.
There are many in
Washington who give lip service to the Second Amendment, but vote to restrict
gun ownership once they begin serving in public office. Gun control laws only
restrict access to responsible gun ownership. I remain opposed to this and to
any other gun control laws. I stand fully behind the Second Amendment and our
national sovereignty.
Though there are no
guarantees President Obama will sign any potential ATT, but should ATT come
before the Senate for ratification I will vote against it.
In hopes of
preventing the U.S. from participating in the negotiations, Senator Jerry Moran
(R-Kan.) introduced, and I cosponsored, the Second Amendment Sovereignty Act of
2012 (S. 2205). This legislation would prohibit funding from the United States
to be used in any connection with the negotiation of ATT.
S. 2205 has been
referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, of which I am not a member,
where it awaits further consideration.
Sincerely,
Rand Paul, MD
United States Senator
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THE SCIENTIFIC PROOF OF
SURVIVAL AFTER DEATH
By Michael Roll
Nye Manuscript
Encyclopedia of Ancient
and Forbidden Secrets
The Starburst
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Science for Survival
Digital Montauk
sky books
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Mysteries Of The
Multiverse
25 True Stories From Time And Space
By Terrence Aym
(2011)
*****
For those interested in
strange occurrences...
This book presents
sets of occurrences/encounters from each of four areas: Time, Space, Fiction
and Science. The author tells tales of dinosaurs making modern day appearances,
blood raining down from the sky, and a ghost making an appearance at a local
airport (I read this last one right before going to bed. Not recommended!),
among many others. The author provides links...
*
Beware Rubbish!
Bought this and got a
refund 5 minutes later, total tosh!! It goes like this..
1 of 25. There is a
man in Russia who claims to have invented a time machine..
Thats it nothing else
no details nothing!! and the rest of the mini book like that, not even worth
99c
The Case against the
Crown, the Vatican and other Agents of Genocide: Common Law Courts, Indictments
and Juries to be Established by September 15, 2012
ITCCS Communique 23
July 2012: Brussels, London
A Call for Citizen
Participation
Amazon
The Most Dangerous
Superstition
By Larken Rose
(2011)
***** 5 stars | 16
reviews
Outgrowing
superstitions and becoming an adult
Little children learn
morality from their parents: things are good or bad because Mommy and Daddy
SAID so. A little later, they may be taught that things are good or bad because
God SAID so, in some Holy Book. And still later, when they are taught
"civics" in government schools, they will be taught that things are
good or bad because "It's the law." (And it's GOOD to obey the law,
BAD to break it.") But "the law" is just whatever politicians
SAY it is.
A person becomes an
adult when he outgrows the need to be given moral commandments from people he
thinks of as "authorities," and learns to judge for himself what is
right or wrong. This is a book to read to discover just how adult YOU really
are. The book as a whole is a litmus test that will show whether the reader is
an adult with independent judgment, or still a child, believing every fantasy
and superstition that the "authorities" in his life have told him to
believe.
You may or may not
agree with Rose's conclusions, but you should be prepared to have many of your
own cherished beliefs challenged and examined. This is a book to stretch your
mind, and that may be uncomfortable, if your mind is out-of-shape. But like any
good workout, the results are very rewarding.
The "most
dangerous superstition" referred to in the title is the idea of
"authority," which includes all belief in "government." No,
I'm not providing "spoilers;" this is something Rose lays out on Page
2 of the book. He doesn't deny that all the legislators, police, bureaucrats
and soldiers exist -- they clearly do. But the thing that makes
"government" something more than a gang of thugs is the respect --
even reverence -- in which it is held by the people it rules.
"Government" is commonly believed to have a RIGHT to rule us, and we
commonly believe ourselves to have a DUTY to obey their commands (which are
called "laws.") Rose unleashes a ferocious array of arguments proving
that neither that RIGHT nor that DUTY can logically -- or morally -- exist. If
that sounds silly to you, YOU need to read the book.
This is a remarkable
book, remarkable for its honesty, its logic, its passion and the profound
importance of its conclusions. There is also much to admire in Rose's clear,
concise prose. He discusses important ideas without becoming
overly-philosophical or boring. It is also a very important book, important the
way Atlas Shrugged -- or Tom Paine's Common Sense -- are important. The most
dangerous superstition IS dangerous because it enslaves our minds, which leads
to the enslavement of our whole lives. This is a book to set us free.
simple logic and truth
that is irrefutable
This book can only
have meaning to one who WANTS to honestly question what they believe and
everything about themselves. Mr Rose uses simple language and logic that anyone
can easily follow. Detractors may not WANT to believe the simple truth, but
that doesn't negate the logic used to connect the individual to the problems
that emanate from "authority" and the "state". One may
disagree with the idea of dismantling the "state" because of broken
arguments such as "hey we've reached the pinnacle of human societal
interactions, so any other form of 'government' will only be worse", but
that doesn't refute Mr Rose's logic.
This book is very
easy to read and follow the logic, and does require honest reflection of one's
beliefs, as it presents ideas, ideas that have the power to change the world.
Only a slave would not be willing to always question their beliefs and ideas.
From the movie "V for Vendetta": Beneath this mask there is more than
flesh. Beneath this mask there is an idea, Mr. Creedy, and ideas are
bulletproof.
"Government"
is a secular faith based religious belief based upon fraud, misrepresentation
and concealment!
Larken Rose has
written an excellent expose' of the fraud and false premise that the whole
syllogism for "Government" is built upon. This is not your typical
book with neat little chapters. It has instead several "Parts" that
contain an excellent free flowing stream of topical consciousness. This is an
entertaining and informative apologetic against the "divine right to
rule" by those who claim to have some secret superior knowledge granted to
them by their deity, the State. Mr. Rose's logic and reason are experiential in
his ongoing understanding of the facade of reality proffered by the prophets of
power and control. He minces no words and is exact in his examples to articulate
the absurdities and contradictions that produce an ongoing state of cognitive
dissonance in the American public specifically, and the world generally.
Bolt your socks to
your shoes because this is the truth of how people have been conned, cajoled
and coerced into selling their birthright of Liberty for some watered down soup
called "American Freedom." You owe it to yourself and your family to
understand the fraud and how to correctly combat it. There are solutions and
Larken doesn't shy away from listing the hypothetical possibilities that some
may choose on their own. This is an easy to read, hard to digest for some and
ultimately conscience freeing treatise on the rightness of the rule by none.
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Rise of the Disclosure
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Crossing the Cusp
Surviving the Edgar
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By Marshall Masters
The Bad News You Expect
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Brainwashing
The Science of Thought
Control
By Kathleen Taylor
(2006)
Throughout history,
humans have attempted to influence and control the thoughts of others. Since
the word 'brainwashing' was coined in the aftermath of the Korean War, it has
become part of the popular culture, served as a topic for jokes, and been
exploited to create sensational headlines. It has also been the subject of
learned discussion from many disciplines: including history, sociology,
psychology, and psychotherapy. But until now, a crucial part of the debate has been
missing: that of any serious reference to the science of the human brain.
Descriptions of how opinions can be changed, whether by persuasion, deceit, or
force, have been almost entirely psychological. In Brainwashing, Kathleen Taylor brings the worlds of neuroscience and
social psychology together for the first time. In elegant and accessible prose,
and with abundant use of anecdotes and case-studies, she examines the ethical
problems involved in carrying out the required experiments on humans, the limitations
of animal models, and the frightening implications of such research. She also
explores the history of thought-control and shows how it still exists all
around us, from marketing and television, to politics and education.
Power vs. Force
An Anatomy of
Consciousness
By David R. Hawkins
(1995)
Amazon
The Meme Machine
By Susan Blackmore
Forward by Richard
Dawkins
(2000)
What is a meme? First
coined by Richard Dawkins in The Selfish
Gene, a meme is any idea, behavior, or skill that can be transferred from
one person to another by imitation: stories, fashions, inventions, recipes,
songs, ways of plowing a field or throwing a baseball or making a sculpture.
The meme is also one of the most important--and controversial--concepts to
emerge since The Origin of the Species appeared nearly 150 years ago.
In The Meme Machine Susan Blackmore boldly
asserts: "Just as the design of our bodies can be understood only in terms
of natural selection, so the design of our minds can be understood only in
terms of memetic selection." Indeed, Blackmore shows that once our distant
ancestors acquired the crucial ability to imitate, a second kind of natural
selection began, a survival of the fittest amongst competing ideas and
behaviors. Ideas and behaviors that proved most adaptive--making tools, for
example, or using language--survived and flourished, replicating themselves in
as many minds as possible. These memes then passed themselves on from
generation to generation by helping to ensure that the genes of those who
acquired them also survived and reproduced. Applying this theory to many
aspects of human life, Blackmore offers brilliant explanations for why we live
in cities, why we talk so much, why we can't stop thinking, why we behave
altruistically, how we choose our mates, and much more.
With controversial
implications for our religious beliefs, our free will, our very sense of
"self," The Meme Machine offers
a provocative theory everyone will soon be talking about.
Lucifer.com
alt.memetics
Memeticsis the theory of cultural replicators, based on Daniel Dennett's philosophy-of-mind and the sociobiology of Richard Dawkins. Memetics postulates the meme as the fundamental replicating unit in social evolution, a process which is treated as technically equivalent to biological (genetic) evolution.
This concept is discussed in the alt.memetics newsgroup.
- "What is a meme?"Informal definitions
- Memetics on the Internet. On-line available articles, web-pages.
- Bibliographyassembled by the newsgroup
- alt.memetics archives. Selected threads July 1994 - June 1995.
Memetics on the Internet
Introductions
- Francis Heylighen: Memetics(Principia Cybernetica Web)
- James Tilton: Memes, Catchphrase of a New Generation!
- Glenn Grant: Memes: Introduction
- Peter Vajk: Memetics: the nascent science of ideas and their transmission
On-line texts
- David Brin: The New Meme
- Luc Claeys: Behavior of Information
- Richard Dawkins: Viruses of the Mind
- Mike Godwin: Meme, Counter-meme
- Ron Hale-Evans: Memetics: A Systems Metabiology
- Joe Formoso: Memes, and Grinning Idiot Press
- H. Keith Henson: Memes, Metamemes and Politics
- H. Keith Henson and Arel Lucas: Cryonics, religions and memetics: A Theoretical Understanding
- Francis Heylighen: 'Selfish' Memes and the Evolution of Cooperation
- Les Jones: Good Times Virus Hoax FAQ
- Joshua S. Lateiner: Of Man, Mind, and Machine
- Elan Moritz: Memetic Science: I - General Introduction
- Heith Michael Rezabek: Autologue: Interdisciplinary Dialogue within the Global Network Environment
- Heith Michael Rezabek: Tutorial: Applied Memetics
- Shawn P. Wilbur: Running Down the Meme: Cyberpunk, alt.cyberpunk, and the Panic of '93
- Hans-Cees Speel : Memetics: On a conceptual framework for cultural evolution
Web pages
- Yahoo: Memetics
- KMO: The C Memetic Nexus
- Sputnik: Meme theorists on the web
- baBs777: Meme of the Week
- Richard Brodie: Meme Central
- Onar Åm: The Origins of Knowledge
- Eric Watt Forste: Arkuat's Meme Workshop
- Douglas Rushkoff: Media Virus
- Anders Sandberg: Memetics page
- Cosma Rohilla Shalizi: Memes
- Hans-Cees Speel: Some pointers and a short introduction to memetics
- Zhahai Stewart: Meme gardening page
- Marius Watz: Memetics
- Ken Kitowski: Memetics Index
Misc. sources
- Recent changes/additionsto the Principia Cybernetica Web
- Self-organizing systems
- Meme-gusts(Mailing list)
- Seeker1's CyberAnthropology page
- FringeWare
- The Church of Virus sponsors a mailing list that offers high signal-to-noise ratio discussion of memetics.
alt.memetics archives
Here's a selection of threads from the alt.memetics newsgroup.June 1995
- Can memetics become a science?(7 articles)
- Selfishness(7 articles)
- Onar's cow problem (unsorted)
May 1995
- Fire walk with me!(5 articles)
- How memes are alive(8 articles)
April 1995
- Evolution of culture(3 articles)
- Behaviorist memetics(15+3 articles)
- Dominator culture (selection)
- Mirroring(6 articles)
March 1995
- The 'virus' metaphor(8 articles)
- Religion(14 articles)
- Sociobiology debate(4 articles)
- Brainwashing without force(8 articles)
- Cybervirus essay(2 articles)
- No meme?(4 articles)
February 1995
- Meme power(5 articles)
- The death of a meme(12 articles)
- Selfish memes of power(5 articles)
- Anti-Neutopian memes(5 articles)
January 1995
- Memetic meltdown(6 articles)
- Joke vs. pun(2 articles)
- 'Just testing'(4 articles)
- Psychological parasites(9 articles)
December 1994
- E-mail virus(5 articles)
- Swastika memes(7 articles)
- Endorphemes(3 articles)
- Metaphors for the masses(4 articles)
November 1994
- Histamemes(5 articles)
October 1994
- Self-fulfilling Prophecy(2 articles)
- Is this a meme?(7 articles)
- Puppet Masters(5 articles)
- Confused(6 articles)
September 1994
- Shock + Iconography(2 articles)
- Urban Legends(2 articles)
- If the Human Mind was Freed of Thought Viruses(2 articles)
- Territoriality and Me!-Me!-Me!-metics(5 articles)
- Memetics as a personal philosophy(3 articles)
- Memes and concepts(11 articles)
August 1994
- Internet Chain Letter--Epitomized Meme?(2 articles)
- When is a meme not a meme?(6 articles)
July 1994
- Music and Memetic Biasing Levels(5 articles)
- What is the most irresistible meme?(9 articles)
- Coffee memes(3 articles)
- Subliminal memes(6 articles)
- Memetic 'hide-and-seek'(8 articles)
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Triangularity
Retrofitting the
Hegelian dialectic
INVESTIGATION OF THE SHADOW IN THE
SPACE
BETWEEN THE TRIGGER AND THE FINGER
By John Kaminski
Einstein was wrong.
The fourth dimension is not time. The fourth dimension is plasma, kinetic
plasma, containing both the potentiality of all existence as well as the
clearly definable methods for its achievement.
Much has been written
about the Hegelian dialectic — problem-reaction-solution — and how it has been
captured by the predators' spin machine, as it cunningly creates problems with
solutions prepositioned — e.g., poisoned food necessitates poison medicine, or
more vividly, fund the Soviets or the Nazis or the Iraqis for the purpose of
down the road creating a stupendously profitable war.
Everything that
happens in the world happens from the point of view of deception plus
exploitation equals survival through the medium of profit.
This ubiquitous human
mindset has now been transmitted to the brains of every person on Earth through
the vehicle of religious belief, which predicates eternal life as the basis for
every action we take, and results in ruthless profits exacted from innocent
beings with no thought as to what profit actually means, or really is.
In the space between
the trigger and the finger is the crucible of the modern world and everybody in
it. The space between will and compulsion, between intent and programming,
between common sense and artificially inseminated desire.
It is the unmapped
zone between the instinct for survival and fear of death.
Physiologically, it
is in the fissure of Rolando, the space between the two hemispheres of our
brains, and where the electrical impulses that flash across this boundless
cavern of imagination determine whether we become wide-eyed serial killers or
bask in the transcendental contentment of the gifts we have been given.
The electrical plasma
formations between the two lobes of our brains are identical in form and content
to the rivers of sparkling plasma that course among the constellations and
nebulae, and paint our atmosphere with curtains of green and blue in the rippling
splendor of the auroras.
And it is to these
twitching auroras in our brains, barely discernible and hence mostly
misinterpreted, that we now must direct our attention if we are to discover who
we really are and whether or not we are destined to survive.
The space between the
trigger and the finger in processing thoughts in our own brains lies clearly in
an arena that pits what we wish to believe against what we know to be true, or
think we know to be true.
How much faith, how
much credibility can we put into the information we receive when we are just
beginning to figure out that all of mainstream history is false, written by the
victors to justify their crimes? The daily psyops in the malignant media show that
the answer is none.
Another questionable
genre is the syrupy glut of New Age information where people are communicating
their subconscious metaphorical epiphanies but claiming they are channeling the
extradimensional words of personages from currently invisible realms.
As all of these are
only projected metaphorical extrapolations of the thoughts and fantasies within
their own brains, they nevertheless possess — though overloaded with wishful
thinking — the kernel of the dilemma that reaches into the hearts of every
living human.
Tom Kenyon is a
famous New Age channeler I've mentioned before, who tells tales he insists come
from a vaporous group he calls the Hathors (Hathor being the name of a
bountiful and friendly ancient Egyptian female deity).
In a recent
transmission titled "Duality and the Triune Force", Kenyon outlines
the Hathors' strategy for "navigating through the difficulties of increased
polarization," which is a vast understatement of what's happening today as
our world is disintegrating before our eyes. http://tomkenyon.com/duality-and-the-triune-force
The Triune Force
If you were to imagine
a triangle and on the left corner of the triangle was attraction and on the
right side of the triangle was repulsion, then the point above these two
extremes is the Triune Force.
It is a mental
perspective that has spiritual attributes. It allows you to float above the
situation and view it from multiple perspectives.
(This is the same
concept Julian Jaynes mentioned — the analog self, that place where you think
things over.)
If, for instance, you
are attracted to a person and surrender to that attraction without allowing
access to signs and information about that person then you have put yourself in
a precarious position.
But by not identifying
with the attraction you “float up” to the Triune Force and are free to observe
behaviors that may signal the inappropriateness or dangerous nature of a
relationship with that person.
This is a good rule,
not only for everyone you meet in life, but also in assessing the validity of
things you read on the Internet. I call it the universal vibe or triangularity,
but it's the same thing — rising to a level of universal consciousness, seeing
into the interstices of reality, and gaining a much deeper understanding of what
is happening to your world.
What do I mean by
"interstices of reality"?
The history of the
20th century has been completely concealed from us. It has made us believe the
20th century was "the American century". When you compile the
suppressed history of Tesla, Jacob Schiff, Paul Warburg, Bernard Baruch, and
Henry Kissinger, plus Albert Einstein, Jonas Salk and Sigmund Freud, you come
up with "a Jewish century" that has created this bloody, toxic
landfill that has — no exaggeration! — just about erased all natural life on
this planet!
What do I mean by
"rising to a universal level of consciousness"?
Simply by realizing
that every life you assist or enrich causes a noticeable increase in your own
vitality, opens up new avenues of synchronicity which are immediately
observable, naturally contagious, and essentially very advantageous to harmony
— the exact opposite of the competitive, cutthroat and corrupt attitude that
dominates the world today — that if you can't have it, nobody else can.
From this higher
'triune' or 'triangulated' perspective, you can, for instance, overcome your
antipathy to a certain skin color, accent or foreign language and assess the
worth of a person's message without your prepositioned prejudices — which have
been artificially inseminated in your brain by people who generally have not
had your best interests at heart — getting in the way.
Triangularity —
measuring the good and evil of the past with a dispassionate view of what we
have become — will cure all our ailments, if we but adopt its perspective.
A new understanding
of the past and what it has done to us requires a fresh look at ourselves and
what it is we really want.
I would couch that
arena of doubt in your mind — that space between your trigger and your finger —
as a contest between where you really wanted to go and where you are now.
Or, in the ages-old
dilemma: Does God really exist or is He just an anthropomorphic projection?
Using triangularity
as your basic operating system guarantees increased understanding of both
yourself and others, and above all, makes the space between your finger and trigger
a much more rational place to be.
Jewish archguru Ray
Kurzweil envisions humanity being reduced to a singularity, nothing left that
is natural, everything artificial, with the objective being mechanical eternal
life, your memories downloaded into a machine. The price for this is that
Orwellian bootstomp on your face forever.
I envision
triangularity as a permanent liberation from this self-abnegating insanity of
standardized slaves we have become, no longer really human, serving the
psychopathological whims of our Judaic financial masters in a robotic way and
never really asking why.
Retrofitting the
Hegelian dialectic? Problem-reaction-(context)-solution.
With just a simple
application of triangularity, those trolls will disappear forever. Just ask whose
needs they are serving, and then ask yourself the same thing in that space
between your finger and your trigger.
Maybe, just maybe,
you'll discover why we're really here.
John Kaminski is a
writer who lives on the Gulf Coast of Florida, constantly trying to figure out
why we are destroying ourselves, and pinpointing a corrupt belief system as the
engine of our demise. Solely dependent on contributions from readers, please
support his work by mail: 250 N. McCall Rd. #2, Englewood FL 34223 USA.
References:
What is the Hegelian
dialectic?
Plasma mythology:
Mountains of evidence
The Hathors
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Amazon
A Lodging of Wayfaring Men
By Paul Rosenberg
(2007)
Book Description
Instantly named Freedom Book of The Month and a major influence in the
Cyber-underground, A Lodging of Wayfaring Men is the story of freedom-seekers
who create an alternative society on the Internet - a virtual society, with no
possibility of oversight or control. It grows so fast that governments and
"leaders" are terrified, and fight to co-opt this cyber-society before it
undermines the power of the governing elite.
The main body of the book is followed by a set of essays and a supplemental narrative that were composed as the book was being written.
For those of you who may not have read the marvelous A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, I strongly encourage you to do so.
The main body of the book is followed by a set of essays and a supplemental narrative that were composed as the book was being written.
For those of you who may not have read the marvelous A Lodging of Wayfaring Men, I strongly encourage you to do so.
-- Capital Reward Blog
The novel leads us through a clever plot where the principles of freedom and individuality lead to a free market, one not controlled by governments or by tax men. The narrative is gripping. The reader cannot lay the book down.
-- Dr. Thomas Dorman
As full as my reading schedule is, I plan to make time to return to A Lodging of Wayfaring Men in order to glean the most from this interesting, thought-provoking tale.
-- Sunni Maravillosa
Of the twenty five or so people I worked with last fall, all of them revered A Lodging of Wayfaring Men as a bible. They referred to the house and their community effort as a Lodge. We all felt it was modeled on the Free Souls.
-- HW, underground programmer
One of the most thought-provoking books to hit the information highway in recent times.
-- David MacGregor, Sovereign Living
Reviews
****
A libertarian wet dream
The story is interesting and the characters well drawn, but it
was too unrealistic to fully capture my imagination.
The story concerns a large number of brilliant thinkers, programmers, financiers, artists and others who have noticed that the current form of government is little more than a glorified protection scheme which starts wars and impedes human progress. They note that if it is immoral for one man to take from another, it is immoral for a group, gang, or government to take from or dictate to free adults. They notice that the government is increasing its thugish intrusions into every aspect of our lives, mostly to get money so they can continue to buy votes and stay in power. Where the book was unsatisfying was in the ease with which the brilliant ones were able to circumvent rules and taxes by using unbreakable encryption on the Internet. It sounded vaguely plausible, but would not really have had a chance.
The book should be on the same shelf as Atlas Shrugged, Unintended Consequences, Moulon Labe, and others which point out our servitude to a bloated and incompetent government. It has some clear thinking and convincing arguments, but it is not a "how to get free" manual.
****
Wonderful and challenging!
This is not an easy read, and most people will need to re-read
it and consider it deeply for a while to get the most out of it. Prepare to have
many of your ideas challenged, some you have held all of your life. This book is
especially good for open minded people who are having a hard time reconciling
the free market and individual liberty ideas with their Christian religion. But
be warned, you will need a truly open mind.
Paul Rosenberg Interview, Two-Part
Author of A Lodging of Wayfaring Men
