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  • Freedom of the Age

    “Every age and generation must be as free to act for itself in all cases as the age and generations which preceded it.” Thomas Paine  Source: piccsy.com via Keith Wayne on Pinterest Related articles The Leisure to be Your Own Self (keithwaynebrown.com) Letting-go Hateful Circumstance by the Naming of the…

  • “The Straight Agenda”: an e-toon from thebigslice.org

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  • Tip Your Server and Save the World / Truthout

    Want to help the workers? The economy? The whole country? Tip your server, don’t be a jackass about it, and worry about the rest of the world after you do what is right within reach of your arm. Maybe, if you’re really interested in helping your community, work towards establishing…

  • From Arab Spring to global revolution | Paul Mason | World news | The Guardian

    Two years on from the fall of Hosni Mubarak, the new Egyptian president is from the Muslim Brotherhood; on the streets of Cairo, the same kind of people who died in droves in 2011 are still getting killed. On the streets of Athens, the neo-Nazi party Golden Dawn is staging…

  • Yes, even cops will lie under oath… surprise!

      THOUSANDS of people plead guilty to crimes every year in the United States because they know that the odds of a jury’s believing their word over a police officer’s are slim to none. As a juror, whom are you likely to believe: the alleged criminal in an orange jumpsuit…

  • Brand Marketing and Existentialism by Randall Rozin

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions Brand marketing and branding philosophy certainly isn’t a new topic to the Brainzooming blog, but branding and Philosophy? Well, that’s a new combination around these parts. Here’… Keith Wayne Brown‘s insight: Certainly not what I mean when I use the term “existential entrepreneurship.” But…

  • Consumer Spending and Inequality Denial – NYTimes.com

    …there’s a much bigger bait and switch here. Remember, the question is what’s happening to the middle class. Nobody questions the fact that America has grown richer over the past several decades. The question is whether that growing wealth has trickled down to ordinary families, or gone mainly to a…

  • The RSA Animate Revolution: Ideas in the age of information overload – YouTube

    Acclaimed popular psychologist Richard Wiseman joins celebrated RSA Animate illustrator Andrew Park to unveil new evidence that shows that RSA Animate videos not only entertain, but educate in a surprisingly effective way. via The RSA Animate Revolution: Ideas in the age of information overload – YouTube. Related articles Gandhi’s First…

  • Struggle For Smarts? How Eastern And Western Cultures Tackle Learning : NPR

    See on Scoop.it – Pahndeepah Perceptions For the most part in American culture, intellectual struggle in school children is seen as an indicator of weakness, while in Eastern cultures it is not only tolerated, it is often used to measure emotional strength. See on www.npr.org Related articles More Young People…

  • The Banking Conception of Education

    “In the banking concept of education, knowledge is a gift bestowed by those who consider themselves knowledgeable upon those whom they consider to know nothing.” Paulo Freire, The Pedagogy of the Oppressed                                    …

  • Welcoming Generation Y

    Some of you probably have noticed that the posts over the last few days have appeared to be the journals of a high school student. That is because they are. It has long been an intention of mine to open up the page for folks from the Millennial generation to…

  • 6 Harsh Truths That Will Make You a Better Person | Cracked.com

    LET’S DO THIS. “Do what?” you ask. I DON’T KNOW. LET’S FIGURE THAT OUT TOGETHER, MOTHERFUCKERS. Feel free to stop reading this if your career is going great, you’re thrilled with your life and you’re happy with your relationships. Enjoy the rest of your day, friend, this article is not…

  • World’s 100 richest earned enough in 2012 to end global poverty 4 times over — RT

    The world’s 100 richest people earned a stunning total of $240 billion in 2012 – enough money to end extreme poverty worldwide four times over, Oxfam has revealed, adding that the global economic crisis is further enriching the super-rich. “The richest 1 percent has increased its income by 60 percent…

  • The NRA & the Black Panthers “in dialog”: The Secret History of Guns

    Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with…