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Comment on When Ideology Reigns, Humanism Suffers: November’s Fundamental Choice by Jones sabo and maybe even platinum eagle

Jones sabo and maybe even platinum eagle — Fri, 12 Apr 2013 13:49:52 +0000

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Comment on From Newtown to Newark and Back: The Always Ongoing Cycle of Despair by hector

hector — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:46:30 +0000

Absolutely, Brittany. Merry Christmas! I don’t know how we then move the unwilling — and the blind.

Comment on From Newtown to Newark and Back: The Always Ongoing Cycle of Despair by Brittany

Brittany — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:12:59 +0000

“We are desperate but we don’t have the means by which to express our anxieties.”

Exactly why mindful, critical education from the start is so vital. We can’t wait for an “exceptional” few to get to places like liberal arts colleges to begin to critique ourselves, our world and in the end, the very things that enable our existence there.

Comment on On Being: Lessons From the Farm — Life, Death and Self-Reliance by hector

hector — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 20:06:07 +0000

thank you, Jon…Yes, I’m trying to follow Dixon’s notion of the activist-writer and I’m going to try, very hard, to approach all the writing of the semester this way. I’ve already reached out to the class and they’re pre-reading the Dixon and are aware of where I want to move them in their writing, which is key. The environment, with all its implications, is a very new and foreign text to these kids — to us too, I think. thank you!

Comment on On Being: Lessons From the Farm — Life, Death and Self-Reliance by jisham

jisham — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 13:48:22 +0000

This is great Hector, thanks for sharing. I have come late to Emerson, but am now a true fan. ‘The American Scholar’ has lessons for the likes of us, no? And how well this essay queues up for your spring ES class … : ) Talk soon, JI

Comment on The New Oligarchy: the Carpetbagger Mitt and the Future on a Plantation Called America by I Told You So: Towards a Different Future Post the 2012 Election « The Uncanny

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:56:26 +0000

[...] will work only be degrees, slowly, gradually — yet not alter the state of affairs one degree. Romney wanted to drastically change everything and place a perverse oligarchy at the helm. With Obama, we’ll fix a tire here, a spark plug there, a belt, a carburetor — but the [...]

Comment on Nothing Will Change: the 2012 Presidential Election by I Told You So: Towards a Different Future Post the 2012 Election « The Uncanny

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 12:56:20 +0000

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Comment on The New Oligarchy: the Carpetbagger Mitt and the Future on a Plantation Called America by Wasima

Wasima — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:46:58 +0000

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Comment on Obama and Romney Win, the American People Lose by hector

hector — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 11:32:52 +0000

Network is a film from my generation, something we all saw. I’m not sure what you mean by “mental eradication,” though.

I’m afraid and sorry to say that many African Americans feel as you do — Cornel West and Travis Smiley leading the pack. But I still think that if don’t vote, even when we have such choices, this aspect of our lives will be taken from us — do we want that?

I understand what you’re saying, indeed. I also understand that education is at the heart of the problem, this is why when we look around, we see how education is being dismantled, adding to the separations between us. The fight, if we can us this terminology, is there, in schools, in classrooms (such as ours)…

Thank you for commenting! Thank you for thinking about these important ideas!

Comment on Obama and Romney Win, the American People Lose by Cheswayo Gabriel Mphanza

Cheswayo Gabriel Mphanza — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 22:22:25 +0000

Interesting Mr. Vila, very interesting. My take on it is that we are on the verge of mental eradication. Times are no longer changing for the better. We say our technology is advanced, school systems are better, food is better, clothes, music, etc. But the people are not getting any better. We regress and stress every day. America institutionalizes dreams and recycles them to be the epitome of the American dream.

I personally do not vote because I think it is pointless. I believe voting is one of the few moments in America where we get this vague idea that our opinions truly do matter. And we still keep telling ourselves “we are free,” “we live in a democracy.” The truth is we live in a hypocrisy.

Coming from a predominatly African American community, I see how the election of Obama has done more evil than good. I always say that Obama is that illusion of hope that America needed in order to fool the people into thinking they are truly united. We chanted “yes we can” from section 8 apartment buildings, welfare lines, soup kitchen tables, and street corners. We knew nothing of his policies, but were mesmerized by his skin.

We were Bamboozled by Obama. He made us believe in equality. He made us believe in America. Obama misguided many minds as he did inspire. I cannot count how many times I ran across people in my community who told me they voted for Obama simply because his Black. That thinking right there is the reason why we cannot move forward.

To touch base on Romney, I am afraid. It frightened me to hear him confidently and boldy speak his mind freely about how much he will take away from the little pot of prosperity the American people have. Am I the only one who thinks this is absurd? Are we becoming such a normalized culture of oppressed people? Are we accepting our demise? Are we tired of fighting for what is right?

The only geniune way to achieve democracy and equality lies with the people. Yes, you! If you look at American history, the only way changed has ever occurred was when the people said “I am as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” When people marched and rioted! (effectively) Revolutions! Chaos! The people needed anarchy to achieve democracy.

How do we achieve that? We start learning. We start educating ourselves instead of imprisoning ourselves. I wholeheartedly believe once a significant amount of people in this country realize how insane the system is, change will come. We need to retrieve our undying desire to fight back! When the people truly unite, organize, and strategize to effectively go against the instituion that is America, WE WILL create a new effective America.

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