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The Donald as unifier
Here’s what Donald Trump is not: He is not us. He is not all of us. He is not the best of us. He is not inevitable. Let us take Trump at his word. Let him be our Unifier. Source: Let Donald Trump be our unifier | Eve Ensler |…
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Expulsion of the White Working Class
This exemplifies how the superstructure dominates every aspect of our lives. The neoliberal policies of the two plutocratic parties, Democrat and Republican, keep folks separated along racial lines so that the bottom 50% of citizens will not communicate with each other. Neoliberalism succeeds when the majority of the working class–white workers…
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Bringing out the dead
Being in academia, asked to do what academics do to show they are really academics, makes me feel dead inside. The world doesn’t need more proliferating monographs and essays. It needs thinkers who will spend time with young people one on one or at least in small numbers to encourage…
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May the Fourth Be with You
Let-go of what weighs you down… “Attachment leads to jealously. The shadow of greed, that is.” ~Yoda. And May the Fourth be with you!
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Research method: napping
Over the years as I worked through the #trudgery of academic assignments, napping has become an important aspect of my process. I read and write on a subject for a few hours. Then I drink about 8 ounces of black coffee, just at the moment I feel really tired. I lay…
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Mindful Self-Acceptance? Bad Idea According to Ancient Chinese Philosophers
Asian philosophies have proven extremely influential in the United States, but are they being interpreted correctly? Frequently not, says Harvard China historian Michael Puett, who focuses on two main ideas in this video: one transported relatively recently to the United States, and another that sheds new light on the so-called…
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Why professionalize my self?
Today is sitting around at Big Mikes coffee shop—reading, writing, editing, organizing and pondering. Usual Sunday. Usual day of late. I am not really sure why I am a graduate student. As one of my professors reminds us in class, nobody “accidents into graduate school.” Or, “You’re graduate students, you’re not…
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irascible
anger has a way of tacking onto you sticking itself into the skin twisting around down until it’s enfleshed another person’s self-righteous behavior enflames the slow itching reaction scratching at open anger sores how very strange the degree to which self-deception and spite can scar skin scraping open no-self and no self Early 1970’s in…
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I-Thou Encompassing
O, Thou; O, Thou… I alone falters embracing uncommon – uncanny entwining – exclusive encompassing I risks everything for no-thing for Thou this encounter nothing else how can “you” capture this? you… you… you… you… you… you… stuttering stabbing particle instants paring down leaving off irrelevant but Thou, O, Thou nothing irrelevant comprehending…
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Why Some Societies Practiced Ritual Human Sacrifice – The New York Times
Nice to see that neoliberal doctrines of global financial capitalism in the society of control keep alive at least one grand old tradition from our forebears: sacrificing lives to ensure social stratification. [A] new study published Monday in Nature revisits the ancient practice [of human sacrifice] to look for fresh insights… scientists…
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General Kafka
“The right understanding of any matter and a misunderstanding of the same matter do not wholly exclude each other.” ― Franz Kafka, The Trial something happened we cannot know details rest assured… it happened not a good thing a hushed thing sitting now with other somethings denied specifics silent but rest assured: something will…
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self conspiracy
“i” as useful designation like a storm front like a bright day changing temperaments one and then another always another forecaste now is here and then is there here is now and there is then no-thing stable enough to be as selfish conditions favorable for change again appropriate means arise…
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Confronting and Rejecting Jargon and Practices Reinforcing Racism/Classism in Education
Originally posted on dr. p.l. (paul) thomas: Doreen Massey recounts her experience with a “customer liaison” at an art exhibition, leading her to note: This is a crucial part of the way that neoliberalism has become part of our commonsense understanding of life. The vocabulary we use to talk about…
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