Anti Intellectualism is Killing America
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Anti-intellectualizm delt a crippling blow to Poland during WW2.
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It is known that they were taken to three camps in Russia – Kozelsk, Starobelsk and Ostashkov. One of the camps, Kozelsk, contained more than just officers. It contained arrested Polish university lecturers, surgeons, physicians, barristers and lawyers. One woman prisoner was held at Kozelsk – Janina Lewandowski. Her body was found at Katyn clothed in the uniform of the Polish Air Force. Ostashkov held officers – but it also held anybody from Poland who was considered to be ‘bourgeois’. It seems that only Starobelsk held only officers from the Polish military.
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Plenty of well educated bigots, shitbirds, and assholes. I'll go for compassion, selflessness, empathy and other traits that are much harder to teach.- G
HAHAHAHA!!!!!
*wipes eyes*
Says the man who just wants to bomb people!!!!
You owe me a keyboard, for the coffee that I managed to spray all over it. Son, you don't even KNOW when you're being a psychopath! That's why you can manage to write this with (presumably) a straight face. But that's like most anti-intellectuals: no perspective, no self-reflection. -SIGNY
So when I said we should drone strike FIFA you thought I was being serious?-G
No, of course not.
Quote:And I'm not!
You can't make this stuff up folks.
Quote:Your reaction to America's history of invasions etc make it pretty clear that you don't mind if we (or our allies) kill people, even millions of people. "America" thrived by committing a continuous act of genocide, slavery, sexism, and imperialism. All those killed ... it just doesn't mean that much to you. If it did, you would object to it.
And if not that when did I ever say we should bomb anyone? I'll wait while you ignore that question.
Quote:No, you're not. A REAL new idea - like, that maybe the USA isn't the paragon of virtue that you believe - just bounces off. And Twitter isn't an "idea", it's a technology which is based on a whole set of memes that you already embrace: individualism, the virtualization of experience, convenience, and brevity. I'm not "against" Twitter (except for the fact that it, along with FB, Instagram, Disqus, LinkedIn, Google, and even Amazon are all infested by the NSA) but if you recall our previous conversation about it, YOU used Twitter as an example of how the "new generation" is technologically superior because they use Twitter, and I was pointing out that knowing a set of apps isn't knowing technology.
You mean like how you feel about Twitter? ... I am actually emotionally, passionately pro great big new ideas btw - but I guess you knew that.
Quote:Well, in my opinion ... and of course who else's opinion should I be writing? ... you DON'T know how to be an intellectual.
Don't think we missed how you are instructing us on "how to be an intellectual." Class is in session!
I've told you what I think an intellectual is, and that is a person who can ask insightful questions that take our knowledge in new directions, EVEN IF that knowledge conflicts with previous constructs. And yes, I think I have achieved at least a certain amount of freedom of thought, which allows me to look at events and think/predict things that are NOT pushed by our media. And been correct enough of the time where by now I should have some street cred.
And you?
One of the things that intellectuals HAVE to do is to be able to entertain perceptions, ideas and conclusions that are uncomfortable, at least long and placidly enough to be able to tell if they correspond to reality. REALITY isn't always comfortable. It's not always the story that we want to hear.
The problem that most people have (including me) is that we have been trained to "test" our knowledge by how we feel about it, because we have been taught that our FEELINGS are the most true and the most authentic. But our FEELINGS - what makes us afraid, what we want, what makes us happy, what makes us outraged - have very little correspondence to reality, and in fact it is our FEELINGS that dictators and con artists and advertisers manipulate to their own benefit. I could point out Hitler, who used the German feelings of despair and uncertainty during the Weimar years to wrap the people around him, by providing an explanation and an action that would remove doubt and fear and return the German people to a state of certainty and pride and confidence. Putin, who is using Ukraine and western sanctions to whip the people up into a state of patrio
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The Chinese came to the United States and built your railways. They took some of the most dangerous jobs ie loading the areas for blasting to make the tunnels through the Rockies. It happened in Canada too.
While it's true that the Chinese were involved in the building of our railroads, it is also true that the Irish and other ethnicities took part as well.
It was same then as it is now, who can the exploiters of people exploit. Isn't that what out sourcing jobs to countries that will allow slave labor is all about? Do the exploiters care what color your skin is? I don't think so.
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Quote:If they have very little power, they CAN'T center changes from within.
They have very little power and need to center changes from within
What are blacks supposed to do, if they face unrelenting racism 24/7/365?
EVEN IF they get a good education, they still face difficulties finding jobs. And if they can't get jobs in the larger culture, are they supposed to make their own jobs? If so, who is their market - their own impoverished group?
If they can't find good housing, are they supposed to make their own? With what money?
IF the police are constantly harassing them, are they supposed to kick the official police out and become their own police force?
Unfortunately, blacks have exactly filled the niche that the larger culture has created: a group of people that no matter how much they contribute and how hard they try will never be rewarded commensurately for their efforts. A permanently impoverished group which exists in a culture that ONLY respects money and violence.
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Did you know that at one time the British killed and enslaved more Irish than the American nation did blacks?
Exploiters will exploit, and it can be on the basis of religion, language, skin color, gender, or even hair color. But in THIS culture, we are prejudiced on the basis of skin color. It's plain as day. So all of the lighter-skinned ethnicities got to "blend in" and climb that ladder, but the darker your skin, the more racism you suffer.
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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.
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When we live locally and strengthen our communities, we become stronger and better able to adapt to changes in the economy, climate, and energy availability. Each community is unique and has its own needs, whether it be public transportation, sustainable food resources, strengthening local businesses, reducing carbon emissions, increasing recycling and reducing waste, building community gardens and parks,… the list is varied and lengthy.
The types of groups where you might find local people who are interested in creating community-wide change include: disaster preparedness groups, peak oil, climate change and environmental groups (those working in your local community), gardening outreach organizations, programs that help fight homelessness, food banks, community gardens/allotments, neighborhood associations, block watch programs, neighborhood, city and town councils, city and neighborhood sustainability boards, youth programs, PTA meetings, community center events, earth day and other “green” fairs, city or town Department of Neighborhoods, native planting/invasive species clearing groups, local animal welfare societies, university campus groups,… the list goes on.
1. Help teach a younger child to read.
2. Help cook and/or serve a meal at a homeless shelter.
3. Gather clothing from your neighbors and donate it to a local shelter.
4. Make “I Care” kits with combs, toothbrushes, shampoo, etc. for the homeless.
5. Pack and hand out food at a local food bank.
6. Adopt a “grand friend” and write them letters and visit them.
7. Visit senior citizens at a nursing home.
8. Rake leaves, shovel snow, clean gutters, or wash windows for a senior citizen.
9. Pick up groceries or medicine for an elderly person.
10. Go for a walk with a senior citizen in your community.
11. Deliver meals to homebound individuals.
12. Hold an afternoon dance for your local nursing home.
13. Teach a senior friend how to use a computer and the Internet.
14. Paint a mural over graffiti.
15. Invite local police officers to present a drug awareness or safety program.
16. Tutor a student that needs help learning English or another subject.
17. Organize a canned goods drive.
18. Clean up a vacant lot or park.
19. Organize a campaign to raise money to purchase and install playground equipment.
20. Plant flowers in public areas that could use some color.
21. Volunteer to help at a Special Olympics event.
22. Set up a buddy system for kids with special needs in your community.
23. Raise money for Braille books for visually impaired people.
24. Read books or the newspaper on tape for visually impaired people.
25. Bring toys to children in the cancer ward of a hospital.
26. Contact your local political representative about key issues.
27. Register people to vote.
28. Organize a public issues forum for your neighborhood.
29. Volunteer at a polling booth the day of an election.
30. Take a friend to the polling booths.
31. Vote.
32. Offer to pass out election materials.
33. Plant a garden or tree where the whole neighborhood can enjoy it.
34. Set up a recycling system for your home.
35. Organize a carpooling campaign in your neighborhood.
36. Adopt an acre of a rainforest.
37. Clean up trash along a river, beach, or in a park.
38. Create a habitat for wildlife.
39. Create a campaign to encourage biking and walking.
40. Test the health of the water in your local lakes, rivers, and streams.
41. Contact your local volunteer center for opportunities to serve.
42. Volunteer at your local animal shelter.
43. Help build a home with Habitat for Humanity.
44. Walk a neighbor's dog or pet sit while they are on vacation.
45. Teach Sunday school.
46. Learn to be a peer counselor.
47. Send a letter to one of America's veterans or overseas soldiers.
48. Volunteer at your local youth center.
49. Participate in a marathon for your favorite charity.
50. Become a candy striper at your local hospital.
51. Mentor a young pers
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Basically, THGR, you are telling blacks to build their own alternate economy within a larger one: grow their own food, tend to their own sick and disabled. But when it gets to more complex needs, like MRIs and CT scans and pharmaceutics, or larger projects like building a multistory building, or technologically-advanced purchases like smart phones, or even making glass or cloth or steel, the smaller economy will have to interact with the larger (or go without, and become like the Mennonites or the Amish.)
I'm all about cooperatives, and economies which can be isolated to smaller elements in times of stress and still survive. But there are limitations to that approach because a smaller economy can never achieve the same level of development as a larger one, and as long as it interacts with the larger one (and the larger one continues to prey on the smaller) the semi-independent community will continue to bleed. Ultimately, the smaller economy will need its own source of financing, its own currency, even, and trade with other entities.
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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Basically, THGR, you are telling blacks to build their own alternate economy within a larger one: grow your own food, tend to your own sick and disabled. But when it gets to more complex needs, like MRIs and CT scans and pharmaceutics, or larger projects like building a multistory building, or technologically-advanced purchases like smart phones, or even making glass or cloth or steel, the smaller economy will have to interact with the larger (or go without, and become like the Mennonites or the Amish.)
The problem is that a smaller economy can never achieve the same level of development as the larger one, and as long as it interacts with the larger one (and the larger one continues to prey on the smaller) the semi-independent community will continue to bleed. Ultimately, the smaller economy will need its own source of financing, its own currency, even.
No asshole, these are things they are already beginning to do for themselves and I say yea for them. I didn't figure out what I posted in reply to you moron. THEY DID and you not recognizing these as positive solutions to the problems of impoverished neighborhoods goes to G's point. You are clueless. And I would add, nothing but a whiner.
If these neighborhoods follow through business will follow. Build it and they will come.
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Well, I guess we'll see what the results will be. The issue is, I've seen this before, in the 70s. A whole black pride movement, patronize black businesses, black adults teaching black children. Create a self-sufficient community. It didn't work then. Maybe it will work now.
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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
And if "they" already did, why are the results so dismal?
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You can't build a nation with bombs. You can't create a society with guns.
This is why I don't respond to you anymore, although on occasion it's great to assist you in showing how much of a moron you are.
These are some of the positive things going on within these neighborhoods as opposed to the negative. Only you would define it as a failing strategy and essentially call these people losers.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Well, I guess we'll see what the results will be. The issue is, I've seen this before, in the 70s. A whole black pride movement, patronize black businesses, black adults teaching black children. Create a self-sufficient community. It didn't work then. Maybe it will work now.
Again stupid because what you are speaking about is segregation and I am not. I am talking about trying to create a community that others would not mind being a part of. I am talking about making a community attractive to other communities in an attempt to integrate with them. To create, buy and sell.
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