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21st CENTURY LITERACY
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
— Alvin Toffle
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THE SLEEP OF REASON PRODUCES MONSTER
We live in dangerous times. Global corporatism, war, violence, racism, and arms race, militarism, terrorism, climate change, the threat...
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Nov 18, 20223 min read
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A NEW KIND OF INFANTILISM & CULTURE OF IGNORANCE
In the United States, the extreme right in both political parties no longer needs the comfort of a counterfeit ideology in which appeals...
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Nov 18, 20223 min read
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THINKING BECOMES A STUPID CRIME
America needs to own its violent history so as to understand and transform the ways our subjectivities have been formed through the...
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Nov 18, 20223 min read
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SELF-DESTRUCTIVE WHITE ANXIETY, BIGOTRY, AND INTOLERANCE
For Hannah Arendt the inability to think, to be thoughtful, and to assume responsibility for one’s actions not only spoke to a...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20222 min read
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OUR GROWING FONDNESS FOR IGNORANCE
In these threatening times, illiteracy is a political tool designed primarily to wage war on language, meaning, thinking, and the...
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Nov 18, 20222 min read
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CATEGORIES OF THOUGHT AND STANDARDS OF JUDGMENT
There is a discourse in which images of an intimidating master and commander come to dominate in what Hannah Arendt once called “the ruin...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20222 min read
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TRUMP’S ENDEARING LOVE FOR THE POORLY EDUCATED
Trump now personifies a party that makes intolerance a priority while viewing evidence-based arguments with open disdain. This is the...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20222 min read
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THE DECLINE OF CIVIC LITERACY
Highly popular celebrity culture now works in tandem with neoliberal values to represent extreme forms of solipsism and a cultivated...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20221 min read
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PLUTOCRACY: MONSTERS WITHOUT CONSCIENCE
Plutocracy is the first documentary to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class. A multi-part series by...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20222 min read
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OBAMA, YOU'RE NO DR. MLK JR.!!!
Films For Action's Review: Lifting the Veil is a significant achievement - offering a definitive critique of the Obama administration...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20221 min read
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CULTIVATING POPULAR IGNORANCE
While many of us are fully familiar with the neoliberal policies that have redistributed wealth upward, ripped away any real safety net...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20221 min read
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'The Star-Spangled Banner' REALLY??
As Noam Chomsky, Richard Hofstadter, and Susan Jacoby have made clear, ignorance is not simply about the absence of knowledge, it is a...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20221 min read
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U.S. CITIZENS' IGNORANCE OF HISTORY
Americans believe they are unbound by history. Historian Christopher Lasch saw this as a reflection of their "narcissism." It is also,...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20221 min read
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GENUINE SOCIAL LIBERATION
"Paulo Freire believed that pedagogy can be a form of intervention in the service of genuine social liberation. As such, he also believed...
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Nov 18, 20221 min read
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