I resent the term sheep......because it often seems to blame the ignorant.......in a nation that works night and day to keep them so, with advertising, capitalist rubbish passed off as thinking, and honorific editorials whitewashing mass murderers and their courtiers who wink at murder.
I think many of the people work hard to stay uninfor…
I resent the term sheep......because it often seems to blame the ignorant.......in a nation that works night and day to keep them so, with advertising, capitalist rubbish passed off as thinking, and honorific editorials whitewashing mass murderers and their courtiers who wink at murder.
I think many of the people work hard to stay uninformed...........because to be informed would have you terrified, on a daily basis, for your children and your grandchildren.
Somehow, we have to get together and defend ourselves by learning how to defend everyone. But individualism has also been pushed hard on us...........since isolation is the real objective, and for the most part in the wealthy west.........that isolation has been achieved, with lonliness reaching massive proportions.
Propaganda. Caitlin Johnstone has written many times about the massive amount of propaganda to which the American people are exposed.
Look up her article "The Left Will Never Achieve Its Aims Until It Confronts the Establishment Propaganda" I think it was written on September 11 2019. (2020?)
Thanks, I'll try to look it up........I spend a lot of time thinking about how we can get out from under all the BS that passes for information....but I'm just an old grandmother of 6, kept busy supporting my two kids as they try to stay afloat and raise them.
We don't buy half the gobbledegook that passes for truth......but then, my partner and I are both readers and lifetime supporters of Canada's social democratic party.......which should know better, but has also been pushed to the neoliberal centre these last few years.
It's hard to know where to start taking down the false fronts of the western establishment, let alone putting something better in place.
I vote for creating a citizens national union with Shawn Fein as President. Establish consciousness raising sessions about climate, who controls the economy, decent health care etc…when legislation is passed servicing the powers that be instead of the citizenry, we ALL go out on.. strike.
We're trying to get some groups going where we live....encourage everyone who comes to one of our gatherings to have their own......and share ideas for building something human and humane in the face of the neoliberal capitalism we all are being picked clean by.
Ingamarie I don't like smearing sheep either. The sheep metaphor from Orwell's Animal Farm, when Napoleon changed the laws from "Four Legs Good Two Legs Bad" to "Four Legs Good Two Legs Better" while the confused sheep nodded in unison. The point is Critical Thinking should be taught in public school and high school. Willful Ignorance is the most dangerous for a working democracy. But I agree hard work and busy lives makes it hard for the average man or woman to see through sophisticated propaganda, mixed with blind patriotism. Socialists and Unions fought for 40 hour work weeks for that very reason, slave wages with 12 hour days six days a week made it almost impossible to stay informed. Even the Capitalist Oligarchy in Canada used the RCMP to spy on Tommy Douglas back in the "good old" days. Law breaking and tax cheating by the rich didn't concern them in the least. That said we are on the same side!
I LOVE this thread, rigorous critical thinking, personal reflection, open communication, the willingness to share learned and experienced knowledge, and no one went crazy or called names. @jim harper, you are 100% correct about the lack of critical thinking in American society. I had to go to grad school to have it reintroduced to me via a Logic 101 course. I was outraged at the beautiful simplicity of logic, and that it was not part of middle and high school curricula. I am math disabled, though I love mathematical concepts, and the great irony of my life right now is I’ve been hired as a full-time sub for a school’s 7th grade math class. In Vermont.
Oh the opportunities are thrilling!
Imagine.
First thing we will talk about after the holiday break is the term Math means “to learn”in Greek. I’m half Greek so this is going to be fun. 😂🇬🇷
I lived through a CIA led coup in Greece as a child. I know what devils those Yankee leaders are, and how they wrecked US public education deliberately to dumb down a nation.
When you get the time, look up a book WEAPONS OF MATH DISTRUCTION....it's a good debrief about how math can be used to create a kind of false consciousness....that thinks it has the proof of something.......when its actually just algorithms turning bias into erroneous beliefs.
Written by a female mathematician, I'm proud to report.
I'm aware of the spying on Tommy Douglas....I met him as a girl, and he was quite the politician and preacher. Which is why I never succumb to that sweeping generalization "all politicians are the same'....or bash religious beliefs I don't share. There are many roads to a good life...and I still believe the majority of people try to find one of them.
But it is true that our love of material plenty at any cost has created a monstrous world.....and Canada too has its radical right with their threadbare beliefs. But perhaps we all need to let go of the convenience of 'the enemy'....and start admitting: 1. who it is causing the actual problems, and 2. why it is we're so scared to name their names.
Utah Philips said it years ago: THE PLANET ISN'T DYING, SHE'S BEING MURDERED; AND THE FOLKS DOING IT HAVE NAMES AND ADDRESSES.
I'm pretty sure Neten yahoo is on that list. His party is so stupid they bulldoze olive trees to put up concrete settlements....in a water poor land.. they think killing all the farmers will lead to a more powerful, ethnically pure state....with 'settlers' from away knowing how to raise food better!!! We should do some research into how well its working on the Great Plains as climate disasters proliferate.
They are dinosaurs walking.........and the world is seeing them now, but has no idea how to stop them. Your country is why....and fossil fuels is likely the motive. The real Death Cult, if you ask me.
Lucky young girl meeting Tommy. To bad the religious anti Communist Corporate fascism of Manning Sr. set up Alberta as an extreme right wing Oil Oligarchy Province. The far right Manning Center set up by Preston has done more harm than most Canadians know. The corporate power in Calgary Center is murdering the Planet and throwing any chance at fighting climate change, when they vomit up people like Harper, Smith and P.P. ! Ardent unquestioning Christian Zionists!
What's amazing is how few people know how lethal Manning is...everything is done in the back room, money flows to shrink tanks like the Fraser Institute, and for years, even our CBC reported their findings as if they'd done research.
I wonder how long it will be before the method of starting with your conclusions and then gathering up 'evidence' from where ever to support those conclusions..........is called out as the propaganda it is. As a teacher, I remember some of the FRaser's evaluation of good schools and bad schools.....done up with no mention of the fact that you could substitute rich schools ad poor schools..............if you really wanted to know why the educational outcomes were what they were.
They do math in the same dishonest way.........so that a rise in corporate tax from 8% to 11% becomes a 34% rise......sad part is no one in the msm spends much time fact checking....or calling them out. Kind of like the Zionist mafia that's active throughout the western democracies.......right wing none sense gets a pass.
I'm sometimes afraid that by the time we wise up, we'll be in situations not much different from what the Palestinians are facing today.........helpless behind a wall of lies and armaments.
I resent the term sheep......because it often seems to blame the ignorant.......in a nation that works night and day to keep them so, with advertising, capitalist rubbish passed off as thinking, and honorific editorials whitewashing mass murderers and their courtiers who wink at murder.
I think many of the people work hard to stay uninformed...........because to be informed would have you terrified, on a daily basis, for your children and your grandchildren.
Somehow, we have to get together and defend ourselves by learning how to defend everyone. But individualism has also been pushed hard on us...........since isolation is the real objective, and for the most part in the wealthy west.........that isolation has been achieved, with lonliness reaching massive proportions.
Propaganda. Caitlin Johnstone has written many times about the massive amount of propaganda to which the American people are exposed.
Look up her article "The Left Will Never Achieve Its Aims Until It Confronts the Establishment Propaganda" I think it was written on September 11 2019. (2020?)
Thanks, I'll try to look it up........I spend a lot of time thinking about how we can get out from under all the BS that passes for information....but I'm just an old grandmother of 6, kept busy supporting my two kids as they try to stay afloat and raise them.
We don't buy half the gobbledegook that passes for truth......but then, my partner and I are both readers and lifetime supporters of Canada's social democratic party.......which should know better, but has also been pushed to the neoliberal centre these last few years.
It's hard to know where to start taking down the false fronts of the western establishment, let alone putting something better in place.
I vote for creating a citizens national union with Shawn Fein as President. Establish consciousness raising sessions about climate, who controls the economy, decent health care etc…when legislation is passed servicing the powers that be instead of the citizenry, we ALL go out on.. strike.
We're trying to get some groups going where we live....encourage everyone who comes to one of our gatherings to have their own......and share ideas for building something human and humane in the face of the neoliberal capitalism we all are being picked clean by.
Ingamarie I don't like smearing sheep either. The sheep metaphor from Orwell's Animal Farm, when Napoleon changed the laws from "Four Legs Good Two Legs Bad" to "Four Legs Good Two Legs Better" while the confused sheep nodded in unison. The point is Critical Thinking should be taught in public school and high school. Willful Ignorance is the most dangerous for a working democracy. But I agree hard work and busy lives makes it hard for the average man or woman to see through sophisticated propaganda, mixed with blind patriotism. Socialists and Unions fought for 40 hour work weeks for that very reason, slave wages with 12 hour days six days a week made it almost impossible to stay informed. Even the Capitalist Oligarchy in Canada used the RCMP to spy on Tommy Douglas back in the "good old" days. Law breaking and tax cheating by the rich didn't concern them in the least. That said we are on the same side!
I LOVE this thread, rigorous critical thinking, personal reflection, open communication, the willingness to share learned and experienced knowledge, and no one went crazy or called names. @jim harper, you are 100% correct about the lack of critical thinking in American society. I had to go to grad school to have it reintroduced to me via a Logic 101 course. I was outraged at the beautiful simplicity of logic, and that it was not part of middle and high school curricula. I am math disabled, though I love mathematical concepts, and the great irony of my life right now is I’ve been hired as a full-time sub for a school’s 7th grade math class. In Vermont.
Oh the opportunities are thrilling!
Imagine.
First thing we will talk about after the holiday break is the term Math means “to learn”in Greek. I’m half Greek so this is going to be fun. 😂🇬🇷
I lived through a CIA led coup in Greece as a child. I know what devils those Yankee leaders are, and how they wrecked US public education deliberately to dumb down a nation.
When you get the time, look up a book WEAPONS OF MATH DISTRUCTION....it's a good debrief about how math can be used to create a kind of false consciousness....that thinks it has the proof of something.......when its actually just algorithms turning bias into erroneous beliefs.
Written by a female mathematician, I'm proud to report.
I'm aware of the spying on Tommy Douglas....I met him as a girl, and he was quite the politician and preacher. Which is why I never succumb to that sweeping generalization "all politicians are the same'....or bash religious beliefs I don't share. There are many roads to a good life...and I still believe the majority of people try to find one of them.
But it is true that our love of material plenty at any cost has created a monstrous world.....and Canada too has its radical right with their threadbare beliefs. But perhaps we all need to let go of the convenience of 'the enemy'....and start admitting: 1. who it is causing the actual problems, and 2. why it is we're so scared to name their names.
Utah Philips said it years ago: THE PLANET ISN'T DYING, SHE'S BEING MURDERED; AND THE FOLKS DOING IT HAVE NAMES AND ADDRESSES.
I'm pretty sure Neten yahoo is on that list. His party is so stupid they bulldoze olive trees to put up concrete settlements....in a water poor land.. they think killing all the farmers will lead to a more powerful, ethnically pure state....with 'settlers' from away knowing how to raise food better!!! We should do some research into how well its working on the Great Plains as climate disasters proliferate.
They are dinosaurs walking.........and the world is seeing them now, but has no idea how to stop them. Your country is why....and fossil fuels is likely the motive. The real Death Cult, if you ask me.
Lucky young girl meeting Tommy. To bad the religious anti Communist Corporate fascism of Manning Sr. set up Alberta as an extreme right wing Oil Oligarchy Province. The far right Manning Center set up by Preston has done more harm than most Canadians know. The corporate power in Calgary Center is murdering the Planet and throwing any chance at fighting climate change, when they vomit up people like Harper, Smith and P.P. ! Ardent unquestioning Christian Zionists!
What's amazing is how few people know how lethal Manning is...everything is done in the back room, money flows to shrink tanks like the Fraser Institute, and for years, even our CBC reported their findings as if they'd done research.
I wonder how long it will be before the method of starting with your conclusions and then gathering up 'evidence' from where ever to support those conclusions..........is called out as the propaganda it is. As a teacher, I remember some of the FRaser's evaluation of good schools and bad schools.....done up with no mention of the fact that you could substitute rich schools ad poor schools..............if you really wanted to know why the educational outcomes were what they were.
They do math in the same dishonest way.........so that a rise in corporate tax from 8% to 11% becomes a 34% rise......sad part is no one in the msm spends much time fact checking....or calling them out. Kind of like the Zionist mafia that's active throughout the western democracies.......right wing none sense gets a pass.
I'm sometimes afraid that by the time we wise up, we'll be in situations not much different from what the Palestinians are facing today.........helpless behind a wall of lies and armaments.