1) “A road map that helps us easily find our way from one side of the continent to the other owes its great utility to its exceptional existential poverty.”* Please describe what you think is…
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Yesterday Unheeded: Paul Goodman’s Empty Society
Paul Goodman is always relevant. It is always shocking to me when something I read from decades past is exactly applicable to our situation. But if Mill was correct back in the 1850s, that we…
Training in Belief and Reason
On the a.m. dog-walk I listened to a podcast regarding, primarily, the “will to believe.” (“Psychological Anthropology” on Entitled Opinions) The author/academic (Tanya Luhrmann) interviewed has written at least two titles on modes of belief,…
Administrative Policies: The Art of Love and War
[L]et us review quickly the kind of advice formulated by Machiavelli as administrative policies for rulers who would widen their powers or keep themselves in power: Either treat well or crush; defend weak neighbors and…
Calculable Obligations: Motivations of Money and Technology
Debt, that is, as opposed to a promise, is a calculable obligation. I was reading a review of two books on the current state of global indebtedness in the London Review of Books (“Forgive Us…
The Logic of Technagogy
Our advances in technology offer what we might call short-cuts to thinking and doing. The logic of technagogy might be stated thus: the more technology we use in elementary and secondary schools the less the…
Technagogy
What say you to the idea that we are now no more, no greater, than reductively technological as beings? We are the “lesser than” species. And this species does not know liberty Sample Psychosocial Assessment…
Soulless We Externalize
For Eric…seeking a French story. “But I admit that I am indulging in theoretical considerations of the short story, although happily I can disregard them when I begin to write. But I am not satisfied…
Teaching as CIA Cover–Gülen Charter Schools, Dan Burton, and State Secrets
The following continues Doug Martin’s look into the Gülen charter school movement, which began with Islam and the Free Market of Privatized Education: “Friending” the Gülen Charter Schools. Besides noting U.S. charter school connections to…
From William Blum–Earth Day Solution
Written on Earth Day, Sunday, April 22, 2012 Eliminate the greatest consumer of energy in the world: The United States military. Here’s Michael Klare, professor of Peace and World Security Studies at Hampshire College, Mass….