QUOTE 3: I am almost at the end of reading "Jerusalem: A Biography". The book starts around 2,500BC. On almost every page is a history of slaughter, war, betrayal, rape, slavery, execution...reading this book, considering the number of wars that have occurred around the world even since I was born in 1973, has left me thinking that the human race is encumbered with evil. Evil afterall is something that only occurs within the human race, not the animal kingdom. Evil is a human trait and most of us learn to keep it at bay. Yet we spend every day pretending the world is all love and roses....
Encouraging the mind helps to distract us from the difficulties and challenges of life. By focusing and understanding, we affirm our worth and recognize that life is endless. Offering comfort with kindness teaches us the importance of the mind, which is essential to our humanity.
In response to Quote #2 I just discovered a book published in November 2024 that has a lot to say about how teachers murder the soul of their students. I was a k-12 substitute teacher from Jan 1990 to Dec 1999, in other words the entire decade of the 1990s. I saw how children’s verve and authentic curiosity was destroyed by the age of 9 to 10 years. It was sickening. I realized myself that the public schools were little more than grooming institutions to provide obedient zombies who would become dutiful toadies once the school system finished up with them. That was in 1961 when I was 13 years old! Whenever I tried to tell people that they treated me like a conspiracy nutjob. So, now 64 years later my assertion has been proven to be true. The book is
Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education
She is interviewed on Youtube. John Dewey, another major proponent of pragmatism and very influential in the American education system was shut down by the fascist filth oligarchs. He tried to implement William Jame’s ideas on education but they were seen as a real threat by the oligarchs. This all makes me want to puke. There is some hope in that pragmatism is making a comeback. Maybe we can flush postmodernism and its nihilism down the toilet at long last and become proactive instead of reactive dodo brains.
To what extent does society’s tendency to ignore suffering and unpleasant truths shape our collective morality and sense of reality?
Totally! I am, you are, we are, ONE. No degree of separation between the individual and the collective. This puts the onus on the aware individual to speak and act accordingly on behalf of unpleasant truths, and those suffering, for the greater good.
Silence, inaction, when aware, is morally, indefensible. The moral responsibility starts at home….and grows according to wider, societal realities.
QUOTE 3: I am almost at the end of reading "Jerusalem: A Biography". The book starts around 2,500BC. On almost every page is a history of slaughter, war, betrayal, rape, slavery, execution...reading this book, considering the number of wars that have occurred around the world even since I was born in 1973, has left me thinking that the human race is encumbered with evil. Evil afterall is something that only occurs within the human race, not the animal kingdom. Evil is a human trait and most of us learn to keep it at bay. Yet we spend every day pretending the world is all love and roses....
It is indeed getting out of control. Maybe it always was!
Encouraging the mind helps to distract us from the difficulties and challenges of life. By focusing and understanding, we affirm our worth and recognize that life is endless. Offering comfort with kindness teaches us the importance of the mind, which is essential to our humanity.
In response to Quote #2 I just discovered a book published in November 2024 that has a lot to say about how teachers murder the soul of their students. I was a k-12 substitute teacher from Jan 1990 to Dec 1999, in other words the entire decade of the 1990s. I saw how children’s verve and authentic curiosity was destroyed by the age of 9 to 10 years. It was sickening. I realized myself that the public schools were little more than grooming institutions to provide obedient zombies who would become dutiful toadies once the school system finished up with them. That was in 1961 when I was 13 years old! Whenever I tried to tell people that they treated me like a conspiracy nutjob. So, now 64 years later my assertion has been proven to be true. The book is
Raised to Obey: The Rise and Spread of Mass Education
By Agustina Paglayan
https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691261270/raised-to-obey?srsltid=AfmBOoowd7EVCM3MU5e8lIIBoGpeM2O35Oe1HqyabrIwfiPKK-nuz_Lc
She is interviewed on Youtube. John Dewey, another major proponent of pragmatism and very influential in the American education system was shut down by the fascist filth oligarchs. He tried to implement William Jame’s ideas on education but they were seen as a real threat by the oligarchs. This all makes me want to puke. There is some hope in that pragmatism is making a comeback. Maybe we can flush postmodernism and its nihilism down the toilet at long last and become proactive instead of reactive dodo brains.
Zitat № 04: "Viele Menschen denken, dass sie denken, obwohl sie nur ihre Vorurteile neu ordnen." - William James
Wer seine Vorurteile neu ordnet, schaut sie sich wenigstens einmal an. 😉
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William James! The mystic brother of Henry, as I recall. A psychic investigator. Have a book about his organization and what they found.
To what extent does society’s tendency to ignore suffering and unpleasant truths shape our collective morality and sense of reality?
Totally! I am, you are, we are, ONE. No degree of separation between the individual and the collective. This puts the onus on the aware individual to speak and act accordingly on behalf of unpleasant truths, and those suffering, for the greater good.
Silence, inaction, when aware, is morally, indefensible. The moral responsibility starts at home….and grows according to wider, societal realities.
Amazing how, during Covid, suddenly homes were found for the homeless ... and not since.
U.K.