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Category Archives: education
OUR NEW, HAPPY LIFE? THE IDEOLOGY OF DEVELOPMENT
By Charles Eisenstein Source: Waking Times In George Orwell’s 1984, there is a moment when the Party announces an “increase” in the chocolate ration – from thirty grams to twenty. No one except for the protagonist, Winston, seems to notice that … Continue reading
Posted in consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Dystopia, Economics, education, Environment, Health, imperialism, Neoliberalism, Philosophy, Psychology, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality, Technology
Tagged 1984, Agriculture, Developing Nations, Dystopia, Economics, empathy, George Orwell, Global South, happiness, Health Care, Humanity, Literacy, Nicholas Kristof, Progress, science, Sick Care, Statistics, Stephen Pinker, technology, Third World
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Unsouling From the Wilderness
By Kingsley L. Dennis Source: Waking Times “Crazy Horse dreamed and went into the world where there is nothing but the spirits of all things. That is the real world that is behind this one, and everything we see here is … Continue reading
Posted in conditioning, consciousness, Consumerism, culture, education, Environment, Health, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged Black Elk, Consciousness, Consumerism, culture, Education, Fast Food, Hyperreality, industrial society, Jorge Luis Borges, materialism, Meaning, media, modernity, nature, Philosophy, psychology, society, Sociology, Soul, spirituality, technology, wilderness
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Humanity’s ‘Dirty Little Secret’: Starving, Enslaving, Raping, Torturing and Killing our Children
By Robert J. Burrowes In a recent article titled ‘Challenges for Resolving Complex Conflicts’, I pointed out four conflict configurations that are paid little attention by conflict theorists. In this article, I would like to discuss a fifth conflict configuration … Continue reading
Posted in Authoritarianism, conditioning, consciousness, Corporate Crime, Corruption, culture, Economics, education, Environment, Health, media, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged Agribusiness, Child Sex Abuse, Childhood Development, Children, CIA, Corporate Crime, Depleted Uranium, Domestic Violence, Economics, Education, environment, Health, human trafficking, Indian Residential Schools, Indigenous Peoples, International Tribunal for Natural Justice, Organized Religion, pollution, psychology, schools, Sociology, US Military, Violence, war, Yemen
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Billionaires Want Poor Children’s Brains to Work Better
By Gerald Coles Source: CounterPunch Why are many poor children not learning and succeeding in school? For billionaire Bill Gates, who funded the start-up of the failed Common Core Curriculum Standards, and has been bankrolling the failing charter schools movement, and … Continue reading
Posted in Corporate Crime, culture, Economics, education, elites, Inequality, Neoliberalism, Privatization, Science, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged Bill Gates, charter schools, Common Core, economic inequality, Economics, Education, elites, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Neoliberalism, Neuroscience, No Child Left Behind, Pedagogy, Poverty, privatization
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Overcoming the Myth of Authority
By Gary Z McGee Source: The Mind Unleashed “For thousands hacking at the branches there is one striking the root.” ~Henry David Thoreau If, as Albert Einstein said, “unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth,” then it … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, consciousness, culture, education, patriotism, Philosophy, Social Control, society, Sociology
Tagged activism, Authoritarianism, Authority, culture, Logic, Magical Thinking, patriotism, Philosophy, Power, Reasoning, social control, society
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Convenient Tales About Riches Within Reach
By Sam Pizzigati Source: OpEdNews.com The world at large knew virtually nada about Sylvia Bloom for 96 years. Then she died in 2016. Now, just a little too late, Sylvia Bloom is getting her belated — yet richly deserved — … Continue reading
Posted in corporate news, Corporate Welfare, culture, Economics, education, elites, Financial Crisis, Housing Crisis, Inequality, media, Media Literacy, news, propaganda, Social Control, Social Engineering, society
Tagged austerity, corporate media, economic crisis, economic inequality, Economics, Free Education, Housing Crisis, Income Disparity, Millenials, Millionaires, Precariats, Public Transit, Rent Control, Social Services, Sylvia Bloom, Wealth, Wealth Gap
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How To Recognize When Your Society Is Suffering A Dramatic Decline
By Brandon Smith Source: Alt-Market.com When historians and analysts look at the factors surrounding the collapse of a society, they often focus on the larger events and indicators — the moments of infamy. However, I think it’s important to … Continue reading
Posted in Activism, Authoritarianism, civil disobedience, conditioning, consciousness, culture, Dystopia, education, Health, Philosophy, Psychology, Social Control, Social Engineering, society, Sociology, Spirituality
Tagged civilization, Collapse, Conscience, culture, Decline, Denial, Independence, Isolation, Morality, Passivity, psychopaths, Self Reflection, Self-Awareness, social control, society, sociopaths
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Thinking Beyond Exceptionalism
By David Swanson Source: Let’s Try Democracy Excepted from Curing Exceptionalism: What’s wrong with how we think about the United States? What can we do about it? (April, 2018). Try this experiment: Imagine that space aliens really come to earth … Continue reading
Posted in anti-war, conditioning, culture, education, Empire, Geopolitics, History, Philosophy, Psychology, society, Sociology, State Crime, war
Tagged American exceptionalism, American History, civilization, culture, Curing Exceptionalism, David Swanson, empire, geopolitics, Humanity, humanization, Israel, North Korea, Okinawa, Philosophy, Role Reversal, South Korea, Syria, US Foreign Policy, US government, war
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