Originally shared by Anna H.
Looks like us bloggers and other content creators are doomed.
https://medium.com/futuresin/2018-is-the-end-of-social-media-as-we-know-it-1e5658f41a5
https://medium.com/futuresin/2018-is-the-end-of-social-media-as-we-know-it-1e5658f41a5
Looks like us bloggers and other content creators are doomed.
https://medium.com/futuresin/2018-is-the-end-of-social-media-as-we-know-it-1e5658f41a5
https://medium.com/futuresin/2018-is-the-end-of-social-media-as-we-know-it-1e5658f41a5
Have been reading 'blogging is doomed' posts for 10 years.
ReplyDeleteIt changes, and we move with the changes. Or not.
Diana Studer Its the same in every subject... When Laptops shows up they said Desktop computers gonna die, when Tablets show up they said Laptops gonna die, when SmartPhones showed up they said Tablets gonna die... When Mirrorless cameras showed up they said dSLR cameras gonna die. Yet each and every single one of them are alive and well :-)
ReplyDeleteI've long thought that future generations will look back at how we use social media today and say "how quaint."
ReplyDeleteThe example I give is the use of x-ray machines (called fluoroscopes) in the 1920's and for decades beyond to show parents how a new pair of shoes fit their children's feet. It's easy for us to scoff at using x-ray machines in this way as being at best naive and how society can be totally unprepared for new technologies.
Trying to be more sociological than political, I think it's safe to say that social media, and in particular FB and Twitter are today's fluoroscopes -- great technology but with unrecognized and unappreciated power to do as much harm as good (think Arab Spring, 2016 elections, fake news).
Whereas it literally took decades (into the 1970's according to wikipedia http://bit.ly/2zi35DZ) for the use of fluoroscopy to die out, we live in internet time, so it wouldn't surprise me were we to get our act together (or self destruct?) much more quickly then that.
en.wikipedia.org - Shoe-fitting fluoroscope - Wikipedia
I read a novel about shoes and fluoroscopes. He was interested in the science. She demonstrated the machine, and died of cancer.
ReplyDeletePreviously:
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Google+ Mass Migration
Edward Morbius an interesting feature of Google Plus... re-posting, ostensibly to a different audience; potentially with a different discussion. Or the poster can refer to the original and block discussion on the re-post. My settings on this community are to give me notifications. Early on, I turned off notifications on nearly all my communities, and subsequently, rarely visited those communities. Others are saying they're quite involved in their communities. For the most part I'd say it's related to the number of members and the quality and frequency of posts. Also of note: partially due to the way I added people to circles, more recently I see something posted maybe 2-3 times by people following the same people I do. Sometimes discussion on the original post seems too long to read through; sometimes a discussion is a useful collection of parameters on a topic.
ReplyDeleteThis as WeChat is more useful to consumers than WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook combined. Of course it's more useful in a country where the others are banned?! Is that a useful metric regarding usefulness?
ReplyDeleteJames Lamb that is where Ripples was so useful. To choose which conversation to follow.
ReplyDeleteThe political division is the biggest problem, especially on Facebook and Twitter. Online I remain as apolitical as possible, whereas people from both parties feel the need to create politically divisive group pages, post politically divisive memes, and make self-righteous status updates, while disguising their insults as jokes.
ReplyDeleteWithin the last 2 months or so, I had to unfollow, unfriend, and block more friends and pages on Facebook because I'm sick of listening and reading about politics. If it's not about politics, it's proud parents, proud pet owners, proud vegans and vegetarians acting morally superior to other people, when they're not uploading their latest selfies for likes and being pretentious about everything.
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/sdW9rUTNg0ly1bFMUWLal1pwoVYwYcaxjP8nid6HPXOQRsMpvey4_oAipAIlp7BOPhurK-VE4IdCDp0dRI1VSarvJhz4pLTM84vU=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2poXRYLKezUGdM-pFOfMCUEPehoIIaUHgbv6tuxfYRCC-Gag-5upBsMmR02HvAyRopWvXxcYhF_LCZvzRUxswqrDpANvgFTWFJgt=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/AyKDZgiktPPg9msSaciwH324K62xf_EKsHGlV2LY2d72OZvKk8rbK2JCKYC1Vh8plW2gVrFcU7nEQbpsGF-mfi0hRb0baanOTa9i=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/y8Gjia6jauQFEeJ6VBjkfCAlrX3doek7A-zhF9vU6KjurvgjWSzTT1lIaZyIPN2ToSPFJ2qz00iYBzZEuWNKY1Nvis3b2RorcqqM=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/hKs_lrzjiY0NrJrA2yz2fMbI4DF8Fpv2_IS9Oxyt_xku7T5yPP0MFa-IMki98Tts5vLJt5H-LBwKgw-2-zGq1cwPNGzH7mzJS6HK=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/entDAdDpp-5TxwNcyJrX5QgSi8kMHB4TnQJe0TtYmuCUybuEfSYCOvYZqgFwfMLzRkPK8EfQkFMEFZouOdDsXJQB8HVCNss2bqNL=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/bQexgLR3S19pF-oouoJCIEGZYwVwliCBP0jq-tHFm3sWlyxpmKgIyj7qjGkyvtagh5bs4uAkQWGLpcPtwSzh6Nc-HjHzFQmNaa4-=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_-BhzH-qA0NJy-8ikvTCt-Qy3FxTQDONhK7z9ndBjWRKMDUYQ7_mE0d9-17S-JWpOr4Obvgjm8Ows_k3BLT-A0Gt6hDEGZ7wodV-=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YU-ndowtPlki-uUzxLS-ePaUgi8kyfVbaMVfSEbtRP9QANBD8vUsgumX0e6aLdH5c9OqN7LTzbjz2JgmUbSGLyELvWjYEjSTs9lg=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/_UAIx4z7shgSCHTP-ixwFYtBAJtKv7xruVoyYGFuRr5VejEePv_S6cZXAXTgQJWrDgnptXEYNr9Sc5ghrosEuW0LPt4woyqPHq3f=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/r6cTjm55WJeHz4qo-Es7Gp7aMwg1EqcofXmM8sVvmb9KKqRu94_THNRZkZi59fd2KoX1vv9RB7sfxRjtWqEqr90ZQU7KnFLwHzBM=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/s6YIfqnyQqXvJz0ZQwxJCoD91ANaQhHt6ba9z05WW2z9viNcr3mvooBPzZ0OsnXZuuCxdFeEpjJssdhxr-3JWtTysbarqGAYGh3n=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gA2_J_G_1GsUuJ8Vy42GjSgY8ZMjvalAK93EHi0VQSXi3_PZFk5iGbp7hxZNAp4NJyEW2KvSXQUV3bW3nvb14JwnvWWgz3O8XM0b=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/TKM4rrieu3pn_6iQzR3hQnUhmH4GpsgbQeSpuryL8Rbcn4Xfh-FqqzDHTq955CZgbvjAQ4gdKNam281SO15Qa0CMLrEZidHt3XJG=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/pSyO4oi7HlPLRT-T2ra23jWn48xHCRga58dgYQQVQsj54CCNATaX4GdzgGA_cr3FcrYmAs2mHyOU2vix8TWxZz8oclBrv8igNYd3=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/ZsbJ9Ywsl7xVwkLwEWf2GNu3ScOerCTR2_DfhGxCCbGSqzCyMg6FU0nVNUI1LdkmBc5-w5ADBypp0c4yE6gBjwbnzrVdj7nvaD91=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/IMuLvG6YbAInnOZ00-4Jm0odR_UGwRUWB7c2XxaUKLtrPQvf6OdXzR4RMWfQx396wwNzkhmXwc868zFCNDpYTypYAGQxqJ3qH9oT=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2L_OJBJZi7X1gvJB5ZFemD_B-W6TgtukMcxPozghVV5SJE6MD3jung2VsvOykD0KjZEce3hcE8seADOZY1KUITk3GPQE-bW2thxv=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/L8oDY4ZxiMl2h1js5Uk-r9T19KIy9noFjRlln4EoLJ0JaWl0bp4lgXryRdgqBd8yTtsOLp8IMsM8-ohrv-gWwDM31nACECo4XWNu=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7KKQLu0RukaOaek_1s4Cp5-jbZvcxOBUprh3GKUniurh8zp7ep-PJcNSJwx3vfFPT5_ZptvxuyV8IXPggQeMTzfOmXwpJ2-syM-d=s0
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteAnna, most of a lifetime ago I read a quote on politics that instantly struck me and which caused me to ponder a lot.
It's by a [ I believe ] Leftie professor of politics named Todd Gitlin.
He said this:
"Politics isn't where you stand on the issues. Politics is how you live your life."
I do not ask you to think about politics or my [ very clear ] brand of politics. I have been kinda immersed in politics, global politics, and the history of politics since January 2015. It was a long hard study.
With a lot of lies, confusion, and misdirection.
Especially since examining a number of issues in the US and Europe during 2016, it became manifestly clear that politics is in large part about deceit, misdirection, falsification, hypocrisy, treason, cruelty, power-tripping, sociopathy, psychosis, and all kinds of good stuff.
Don't look now, but all this political stuff is getting worse. It's gonna get a LOT worse. I guarantee that, and for a number of definite testable reasons.
It makes sense that with this kind of trend people will become more unhappy and reactive, or disconnected, or otherwise not really engaging politics in an honest and clear way.
Somehow for me I get increasingly and deeply attuned to debates and the cut and thrust of political dialogue.
As it happens, this evening I watched Steve Bannon do a ninety minute gig at Oxford University Student Union.
There is an honest politician.
And that in turn reminds me of another super quote that really got to me. It's by an almost completely unknown Oxford professor two generations back, named G.J. Warnock.
Warnock said:
"All that is necessary is to want to get things clear."
What is clear is that there are tough choices. The French Nobel Laureate [ and also French Underground guy ] Albert Camus said that what mattered to him was to refuse to be either an executioner or a victim.
He also said that in our times "the only moral value is courage", and that "we have nothing to lose but everything, so let us begin."
I accepted that challenge. There are things I really care about in the Albert Camus kinda way, so I became a political animal. And intellectual samurai.
You would not like anything I do in my political work. It gets really ugly. But some of us fight for The Big Things.
We are here to help others. It's just that - for the life of me - what the others are here for I cannot say.
I think the point is to really understand what is going on and then make a useful difference.
And we need more people.
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/XwdRNoM52PD3pF3jbTKeW3YHTZJQPGzZ3Z0BfYqL3e1S5D9iDZUolvxHhs9-tzj0PSP13SrVo29Ywa-4XKwkDKTS2Fy4RN2pHE4i=s0
wcangel for the last 20 years, the political divisiveness has gotten worse. Something I have noticed over the last 3-6 years is that every time we get a Republican president, Democrats as well as some other parties normally want to demand recounts. If the recounts still don't work in their favor, they throw temper tantrums about losing like a bunch of sore losers.
ReplyDeleteTo make matters worse, the entertainment has been extremely politically divisive to the extent that it's cruel, hateful, petty, oppressive, and divisive. Nearly 15 years ago, I quit hosting my radio show in college because too many of today's Hollywood artists, rappers, and bands ranted about Bush.
Just before graduating in 2006, my English Literature Professor made us do an in-class group assignment. He made us create our own poems blaming Bush for Hurricane Katrina. Even though I really liked him as a professor and the way he wrote notes on the board (which was something exceeding rare to come by over the years), I thought the classroom assignment was politically divisive and uncalled for. I ended up losing respect for him as a professor.
It has been a few years or so, since I last contacted him. Sometimes I would contact him regarding leads for Writing gigs. As soon as I would contact him, he would immediately go into an angry rant about how he hated Bush and just about any and everyone, who was a Conservative Republican. His negativity bias caused me to distance myself from him.
Anna H.
ReplyDeleteI read you 'loud and clear'.
The job of a professional teacher is to deliver skills and develop capacities in people.
Etymology for the word 'educare' can mean To Draw People Out.
Hammering on people does not draw them out nor does it educate them.
It is not possible to by any kind of real educator while being emotionally contaminated and caught in a very reactive negative state.
And there is just not much clear thinking about politics these days.
I guarantee it will get worse and worse, both in America and western Europe. I have studied this problem in real depth and breadth.
Where we are now is the calm before the storm.
Politics is downstream from culture, as Andrew Breitbart said, and I will add that culture is downstream from demographics.
There is massive demographic change in the US and in Europe, and both continents will become increasingly destabilized for several major reasons.
My assessment and expectation is that the end state for much of most of Europe looks like present day Lebanon, in no more than one hundred forty years.
The back of the napkin probability of that is above fifty percent, altho nothing is guaranteed there but increasing instability on all levels.
European civilization will in many key respects break down and collapse. . .over the coming generations.
Why? Because as recently as 2016 there was no possibility of developing good guy infrastructure, and basic free speech is now strongly opposed in most of Europe.
Great Britain and Germany are the worst.
Examples? I have very many. Here is one.
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German mother could face prosecution for posting picture of daughter’s ‘dark skinned’ sex attacker on Facebook
By Stan M 22 November 2018
German police stopped a mother from searching for the alleged sexual molester of her 12-year-old daughter on Facebook.
Her post was soon shared thousands of times containing pictures of a black man. The post did not go into further detail other than asking if people knew this man.
https://voiceofeurope.com/2018/11/german-mother-could-face-prosecution-for-posting-picture-of-daughters-dark-skinned-sex-attacker-on-facebook/
The police further stated that the release of picture without the consent of the pictured person is a crime and will be prosecuted. The public search with a picture is in the authority of police only through a court order.
Voices claiming the police protect foreign criminals will only be amplified by the police statement, which ended by stating that even sharing the post could constitute a release of the pictures and could therefore be considered a crime.
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What is needed is clear and responsible speech, in all the public squares, on all the major issues and everything else.
The disastrous truth is that we are losing free speech everywhere.
Journalists get imprisoned or slaughtered. People get crushed Stalinist style for just speaking on politics. The new rules are strongly Orwellian.
And today half of all American college students have no regard for basic free speech.
The polls say sixty percent of college age women in this country reject basic free speech. That is truly terrifying.
What we are seeing today is worst case analysis. The dominating factors lead mostly towards a vicious and consuming downward spiral.
Academia is supposed to be the citadel of reason, inquiry, free thought and free speech.
But instead of the 1960s Free Speech Movement in Berkeley California [ University of California Berkeley ], we now have the Berkeley ANTI-Free Speech Movement.
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/EvRpB6jS4ZnAfU5BHk7Xn4P_2um873peCJ0wsI38cgK6muZmaBQ1Sh335uiPcn6ckN5aZzeMlwqY6Wm3yBYurtf0DYvFMOqQ_beR=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/XdPaPwBUkGAf0rV8haeP7qOCyoSeSIYfukMlCElpfK49Nl1lKtBLb2TwBNHclu4KepiTopI-zJ4jolgGQ2coPB-0RI4IKwtUNAxd=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/CfCY3ea9HFpRj1cuVsNCCegKRouHPn8xDNXlcJdhlBUgzimX1Ur2KvMSLDGEKCAtmCn3Lsh-Dda_nqffRpLUVWy3lbBPxDqJPXCt=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/C9BZAaC9GFnBLHIbjIZtDxEDjGD5CV1SPJ2Z9OzjqI0oM4TL4n8QSWndCI7aWN4HGPdEDIERq2te44eTELcwYBv5j3HtrT-XtaQz=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/5J_apRb8jWvb3kU7hKoU8ybv-fAJH2biIwDq2McgObMgeYDv4zpubz26JU9mkraxgArKk6QHLuBWTwQeN1t_wn8sc24_-Tu92k7_=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/iXUQVkHbxs4QKbe2mJ9UxpQvLuBdWBiH9mIBtltrfFK9WQ1aOId5_sypFMbBbEzJXoVpjbn_5sdKWsKMykVh4OI3B0iff3xyyMwI=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DvasWSEBsVLbTP9XWVROS-rPilKaczS9V1591CYZdg9-dcL0ChrP27TPqTE55tf8us2BfDR_K7I5BlxZtw_c9wdWouXZK1kIv2qR=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/psv4vg6mWLQKGty9Ka4RIjMoAjCSlyCEHYJiyt9SQqlJ16a65tde7UzadKUVy3qGZRkbYQ7WC2vvpMPQteMgKKWZMzOTy3POl7ZH=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/gnsWRBGgqNKdQ0fXsqKcSiOOgRKuHXQVgncT4ghTeJXbIXuOMWv9V4oPaAsUi8BsfRbZrQpm47QrjaU6hJMZyLG_CByjuHuvK6X5=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/LO1Ax7eAc8M8EhdxToXRxpQaAAZ2EcGfvQlvqewSCzQTTuDpxQ2OSIxJYIAnvIZiErVe2ny85yEsa2MYytAwppIfO5D6vMopZz0J=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/KMUyHF-DU1HpbeGyYBMEbWQt5tjYEjC8D2bjjfeSPuKL--qjhCLSUNlIHzX6mSi3TdRGLCCL0CC4J3J1czDSn1JbZCzO4xq7vhn0=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/2bC4ZxqVZ3o9dcjH5diO9rkF33pIL1CF_lomTRGJRzXRtN7WH8HNeqA-Ojh-9zOL3spab0r-pULvsbDuxMZC1milvoyVlE-y7QcJ=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/FZgdhPi3VMJreIOlxao5tB2GX5i5cTR5Fw9GAi2YAgrsZ3TilNk1Qcobwpy5aJebgtZRXZc5H5kjaAjJGFgySon7wmjqxSfTlY1o=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/HXjduYSCTEPz5DO9hMJ7MBnqLAfDofktZ0J1ttKeVd-cQdXsKP3VAmlH3R9H8aPYDk45-Tvd0WvtpGqfZ8c1iRKC3XrQgwFqnfrS=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/UNoJNyfokgmA70I55CFOVswD4vFTUlBRw4J1A9Etpgbk__Becqrff35ygzu1jrGiw5P9e-wKnVovFZtEDhKFCKfC29XPh5LdE5b3=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/rgQ0Oz7RIHZyDn1eFEx4-9CorANbRQ3DSBEVUeGf436Bv0Z0ZyOfXy4ZPnBjBXA4c6JyYYsdpwZ8IwyCymvICOhMX-Y3N22NtUO-=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/DvjoqkMkUINy-5fdfF03xq67hzN5S3eIndD9D4QZLCFbnd0Ex24d11wHQSpAVR7PUwuSci1NSRWB32HA-kDJ9Wn8o18C5ISdUOMq=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/YWNDHXwM7SGdLgWQ4jjzL6UVSlY3IiiadjnusM494mZeAuuwBcmN73PPTjwK8Kax4DBOTQMgDx1yAzreebkEjw69GxaDwe_b541m=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/Nmee8tUjVrIl051r_UPL3dX-gHJ14En6iWXaZf6XDP-qODs0ccvTPHwybbVaItYPYY2UQ1pF3SFAM31Eiy67yLkvNqIFLnA6_fyl=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/bbA9rDSIlRzF9lKfPCT5TfYZIw6hHYun0E-IMABpNPGiM9Sua4rjjsEq2BomieGdHaijFtDvMD_2JotKeklbVS_-NEncdJkhCT7P=s0
Simply put, John Locke and John Stuart Mill get thrown out the window.
ReplyDeleteThis will all get worse, not better.
I am a teacher myself, in a sense a licensed professor. As a Buddhist teacher. I teach ethics, philosophy, religion, politics, and high level wellness and so forth from a Mahayana perspective.
Stan Lee said "One person CAN make a difference".
Teaching is a profession. Teachers are supposed to meet a professional standard, like everyone working in the public space.
The only way a university or society can effectively function is on the basis of John Rawls, John Locke and John Stuart Mill.
When you lose Rawls, Locke and Mill you throw away western civilization. Which is what a lot of people want to do.
I have done a tremendous amount of free speech work and free society organizing work on this platform.
For me the loss of G+ next year is a total strategic disaster and I cannot begin to replace the public square found here.
Having investigated several alternatives, I definitely see that the loss of Google Plus is completely devastating, in particular for all my kinds of public service work and teaching and engagement.
Well, I am a Buddhist teacher. I am supposed to be able to handle basic human suffering and major change. I do to some extent.
Sometimes the good guys win. If they keep their courage and work together with a good strategy and good leadership.
Sometimes a few people can make a big difference.
In many respects my basic communication and social models come from the movies Seven Samurai and Casablanca.
Victor Laszlo:
Play the Marseillaise.
Play it.
La Marseillaise Casablanca
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTsg9i6lvqU
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/7KdJlaZ1Pubu8Iw8BmIHlSLsYgWxUD8L4WpygQW-mgIu-9ZjwZYkEQAZ5CzCnODws8MtaZViU2wRL4J-feKGnyLOqHSApfniogZg=s0
The oppression of free speech has become ridiculous and keeps getting worse. It's so bad that everything offends people. We can't sneeze, cough, or hold our breath in peace without someone wanting to protest in the streets and online because someone was offended. Meanwhile, smearing someone's name and reputation is highly acceptable.
ReplyDeleteAnna H.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you get this stuff.
Ideas do not have rights.
Ideas must be vigorously debated.
Without free speech there are no academic free inquiry, no philosophy, no democracy, and no western civilization.
Ideas cannot silence people in a free society.
This video lays out the different sides quite well.
One of the chicks is strongly opposed to basic free speech.
I continue to support free speech for Nazis, Marxist-Leninists, Scientologists, and even Democrats and SJW feminists.
The whole idea of public issues debate was to truly understand your opponents, their views, and their dialectical strategies.
I studied all these people. I know how and what they think.
Article 13: Save The Internet
They want to get rid of our home.
THE INTERNET AND ALL ITS MEMES AND VIDEOS.
https://youtu.be/GbXHrj8k7dg
Free Speech: At What Cost?
youtube.com - Free Speech: At What Cost?
Anna H. My view to the offense bits is: so long as I'm avoiding the well-established bits (nudity, sex, gore, obvious racist & sexist bits), I reserve the right to skewer sacred cows and offend. People may complain, but I can choose to accept or reject their concerns.
ReplyDeleteI do try to punch up rather than dowm, however.
Edward Morbius up meaning logic, reason, facts and figures?
ReplyDeleteNot ad hominem?
Diana Studer Afflicting the comfortable, comforting the afflicted.
ReplyDelete"Punching up" == holding power / the powerful accountable.
"Punching down" == beating up on the oppressed.
goodmenproject.com - Punching Up, Punching Down - The Good Men Project
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Punch%20Up