Category: Control
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Athletics and the Political Ambitions of Young Adults » Sociological Images
The authors suggest that the mediating factor is “an opportunity to develop… a competitive spirit.” Sports, they argue, may build or reinforce the tendency to find pleasure in competition, which may make politics more appealing. via Athletics and the Political Ambitions of Young Adults » Sociological Images.
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Casino Capitalism: Killer Control
We now live under a form of casino capitalism that revels in deception, kills the radical imagination, depoliticizes the American public and promulgates what might be called disimagination factories and punishing machines. Idealism has been replaced by a repressive punishing machine and a surveillance state that turns every space into…
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Blinding Trust and the Elected Aristocracy
What can it mean for doing business in Washington, DC, that the “blind trusts” of elected officials favor the corporations that receive the most benefits from doing business with and receiving aid from the largest public purse in the world? The Center for Responsive Politics tells us that for the…
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Supremely Smug Plutocrats vs. the Supreme Pontiff
My claim: The wealthiest Plutocrats within the 1% use religion and its morality to support their estate as the most powerful. Toward that end, such men and women will often weigh in on issues that they do not care so much about in order to obtain greater control over the…
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Banished for Questioning the Gospel of Guns – NYTimes.com
Strange that so many of my peers who decried Duck Dynasty Scion having his 1st Amendment Rights trampled on by A&E are not even whispering a word about Dick Metcalfe being summarily fired from all connections because Gun Manufacturers wanted him silenced. Well, I guess it is really not all…
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The Bad Faith of Neo-Liberals
I do not know why this kind of agreement should be any surprise to those who have been paying attention to what neoliberals have been trying to do to pensions across the USA. It has become a standard operating procedure for neoliberal pundits, bureaucrats, and politicians to seek to change…
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Protesting with a mirror
http://m.imgur.com/r/pics/RVwXHIx Great visual and awesome tactic shared with me by my good brother Joseph C. Posted by KWB wandering among the borderlands of the Ether.
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A step in the right direction
A federal judge has rejected the mandatory drug testing of welfare recipients. U.S. District Judge Mary S. Scriven ruled against Florida’s drug testing program, writing, “[T]here is nothing inherent to the condition of being impoverished that supports the conclusion that there is a ‘concrete danger’ that impoverished individuals are prone…
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Laying claim
“Only a thought that does not conceal its own unsaid–but consantly takes it up and elaborates it–may eventually lay claim to originality.” Giorgio Agamben, The Signature of All Things (2009, 8)
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The Devouring Abyss
George Monbiot at The Guardian examines the desperation to be found in the lives of those who have known nothing but or giving themselves over to the materialist worldview that drives the Society of Control. To think of the world in terms of matter is completely sensible. But when the…
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International: Ripe for rebellion? | The Economist
The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a sister company of The Economist, measures the risk of social unrest in 150 countries around the world. It places a heavy emphasis on institutional and political weaknesses. And recent developments have indeed revealed a deep sense of popular dissatisfaction with political elites and institutions…
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What You Believe About Homosexuality Doesn’t Matter | In The Parlor
Very well said. Very well said… The debate over the “rightness or wrongness” of homosexuality has once again been fired up. The appeals to the Biblical passages have been made. The academic rebuttals to the interpretation of those passages has no doubt been referenced. The calls for freedom and tolerance…
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How Wall Street Power Brokers Are Designing the Future of Public Education as a Money-Making Machine
Financial Capitalism–subordinating all processes of production toward amassing the greatest amount of excess monetary value through constantly changing financial networks–has nowhere left to turn besides the local after absorbing all international, national, and regional systems of output. And we should not think that the educational channels–the Harvard Network as I…
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Nancy Gibbs on Why Pope Francis Is TIME’s Person of the Year 2013 | TIME.com
Picking Francis I, with Edward Snowden a close runner up, demonstrates how the power-hungry Financial Capitalist networks of the Society of Control are being challenged by both the most traditional channels of discourse as well as the most anti-imperialist channels. It some ways, it does not mean all that much.…
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Colleges are teaching economics backwards
…here’s one temporary fix for introductory economics: teach it backwards. Reversing the order in which introductory economic classes are taught today might be the easiest way to respond to the crisis in undergraduate education. Plus, the history of how it gets taught now is more interesting and more political than…
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The Logic of Stupid Poor People | tressiemc
Great article on an issue that is close to my heart as a person who was born poor and has done many ridiculous things as well as savvy things to get out of perception of poverty. I know that being a white man, I have had many privileges not afforded…
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▶ Is Facebook Changing Our Identity? | Idea Channel | PBS Digital Studios – YouTube
For me, the most interesting issue here is my Facebook, my Twitter, my Youtube and my blogging alter the people who would be in the 100-200 folks that I am capable of knowing and interacting with regularly throughout life. As noted in the video, this is called the Dunbar Number. Because…
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Lessons In Leadership: It’s Not About You. (It’s About Them) :| NPR
As an existential philosopher in the lineage of Karl Jaspers, I concur with the notion that being a leader is about listening and bringing folks to compromise. When we act like there is one problem with one solution, we very much are looking at the world as though technical or…
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