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Desertification, or Living Nowhere

Here are things I cannot change that make me angry and perhaps you might share a similar list: War; anything that is war dressed up under other terms; fraud; exclusionary self-interest; that same interest commended and encouraged as something natural; profit calculated via actuarial risks.  And so on.  In other words, American culture, American economy, [...]

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Progress, Innovation and Improvement: Useful Ideas

Want to bait a hook intended for humans?  Use the worm that turns on “improvement.”  This worm will wriggle any old way you choose. Want to assess your life…what improvements have made you a better person? Define better?  More caring, compassionate, open, critical yet expansive and responsive… Or do you prefer selfish, detached, singular, less [...]

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A Society Which Ought Not To Exist

“Society ought not to exist, if not for the benefit of the whole. It is and must be against the law of nature, if it exist for the benefit of the few and for the misery of the many. I say, then, distinctly, that a society, in which the common labourer, with common health and [...]

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Who Runs the Indianapolis Public Schools?

Who runs our IPS? “The crisis is not about education at all. It’s about power.” ~ James BaldwinOverview:Traditionally, local school [...]

What is Learning?

Question: Define the purpose of guttering on a house. Answer: Choose the response that represents your thinking. a. to catch [...]

The Great Lawsuit (Audio)

This is the essay that led to Fuller’s longer treatment on the Rights of Women titled Woman in the 19th Century. [...]

Audio Recording of “The Sleepers” (1855) by Walt Whitman

An audio recording by Doug Storm of “The Sleepers” (1855) by Walt Whitman. (18:48) *** I wander all night in [...]

Audio Recording of Whitman’s (1855) “Song of Myself”

Audio recording of Whitman’s (1855) “Song of Myself” by Doug Storm (1:49:42) *** Do I contradict myself? Very well then [...]

An Audio Recording of “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne

An audio recording by Doug Storm of “The Birthmark” by Nathaniel Hawthorne. (42:16)