Dr David McGrogan reflects on the all-pervasive influence of social media on how young people perceive the world and how it dissolves all sense of overarching story, purpose and meaning.
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Orientation Summary of Part I In Part I of this article, I contrasted the differences between rising Multipolarism with a declining Anglo-American empire. Taking the side of the multipolarists of the East, I identified Lyndon LaRouche as someone who bridged the gap between East and West. His concept of “The American system” defends the Enlightenment […]
Orientation Why should you care about a bunch of dead white guys? To pull some lyrics from Sam Cooke’s Wonderful World, the Yankee working class “don’t know much about history, don’t know much about geography”. So why would they care at all about an intellectual movement that began 300 years ago in a country notorious […]
The irony of this quote from the Dustin Hoffman movie, The Graduate, is not wasted on Duane Snider:
— One word: plastics.
That was Benjamin Braddock, just graduated from college, sitting in a swimming pool. Giving him advice on gaining the American dream, the neighbor’s statement says it all. Today? Hedge funds? Flipping houses? Coronavirus repossessions?
For Duane, that one word: artwork.
Läs min senaste krönika hos Mårtensson:Vänsterns plan: If you can’t beat them – confuse them »"Postmodernism, som den ofta används av vänstern, är bekväm. Om det inte finns någon objektiv sanning – då kan man påstå lite vad som helst utan att behöva underbygga sina teser. Då kan man bortse från fakta och faktiska förhållanden.
Fist with pen illustration by CHema Skandal!
When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man’s concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
When phrases such as “the deep state” and “conspiracy theory” become staples of both the corporate mainstream media and the alternative press, we know the realities behind these phrases have outlasted their usefulness for the ruling elites that control the United States and for their critics, each of whom uses them refutably or corrobatively. These phrases are bandied about so often that they have become hackneyed and inane.
Om du har en dryg timma över, då är detta en mycket sevärd video.Youtube: Jonathan Haidt - The Three Terrible Ideas Weakening Gen Z and Damaging Universities and Democracies »Jonathan Haidt innehar Thomas Cooley-professuren i etiskt ledarskap på New York University’s Stern School of Business. Han är även känd för att ha skrivit boken »The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas are Setting Up a Generation for Failure«.
