According to the logic on the American spectrum, you have communal, social-democratic, conservative-republic and libertarian living. Each type has different assumptions, expectations and methods for how to manage money, resources and people.
Commune: Complete public ownership, average citizen contributes greatly to management
Social-democracy: Mostly public ownership, large professional government
Conservative-republic: Mostly private ownership, small delegating government
Syndicate: Complete private ownership, average citizen is expected to self-manage
We spend so much time vying for domination and little time building each lifestyle by its goals. So I ask how each system operates and how it tackles different needs. A big one, perhaps the most important one, is education.
Let's say you had a town of 50,000 people who all agreed to live by once complete system.
What would a high school look like in each of these systems?
QUESTIONS:
1) How would parent involvement vary? Which would have the largest amount of home-schooled?
2) How would curriculum vary?
3) Would the syndicate focus more on home economics and personal welfare?
4) Would the communal focus more on interpersonal relations and teamwork?
5) If the republic had its charter schools, would they separate them by special needs -- average -- gifted?
6) Would the democracy focus on public administration more than business?
7) How would the view of science change? Would the more private the system, the more theories are open to interpretation? Would the more social systems want fixed, agreed interpretations?
8) Would liberal arts be more important in a private or social system?
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009
Review of a Review of The Pursuit of Happyness
Here is the review:
http://wbai.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=9437&Itemid=2
My response. lol:
I know, it's late, but I only have one thing to say:
Please take the high-minded stick out of your ass when reviewing your films. Should Chris Gardner have changed his whole life to meet your politically correct expectations?
The point of every romantic tale is that the hero is exceptional and performing outrageous tasks that the audience could only dream of, yet when the story is "Black man gets ahead by tenacity and insane goals," you tell audience, "this film is telling you your poverty is your own fault, that you are lazy." WAIT, WHAT!?
Is Batman's fight against crime saying "It's your fault that crime is rampant in your hood. What's stopping you from putting on a costume and beating up criminals?"
Every paragraph of The Pursuit of Happyness review is dripping with offended scoffing so self-righteous that the reviewer barely cares about the "based on a true story" aspect and, instead, insists that the story is racist, sexist and classist for reasons that would make sense… IF THE STORY WEREN’T TRUE!
"There are no positive female characters. Look! The wife was a shrew!” Yes, because the real Chris Gardner sold off their whole savings on a crappy product. I'd be pissed, too. Am I the only one who felt pity on her and hoped that the real woman kept in touch with her son after all this happened? Were the writers supposed to change Mr. Twissle into a woman?
"This film is manipulating you to dislike the poor because two or three people in Chris's life were not helpful to him, while the white people were. (This is all wrong. White people are always the problem.)" It’s so sad that you are willing to ignore the flaws of the stock brokers just for a chance at some high-brow cross-victimization. Those white men spent half the movie looking pass Chris, barely paying him attention, thinking about their football game, their next appointment or a damn Rubik’s cube. Stiffing him in cab fare, taking his money, pushing him to do chores… Not because he is Black, either, but because he’s an Intern and that’s his lot in life until he rises higher.
And I suppose the kindness of the Glide Memorial Baptist Church, whose Black director played himself in the movie, means nothing to you? The reviewer comments on how “not possible on this planet,” it would be for a man to go into a men’s shelter with a child, but obviously it was little exceptions like this that caused the real Chris Gardner to have the script changed to add him in. “If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t be here. He had to be in it.”
“Then he could have added in a woman! There had to have been some woman who helped him during this time!” The story is about a man making a life for his son and the review stops to write about how women are portrayed… as if a hippy stealing some gizmo or a girlfriend at the end of her rope is meant to summarize the moral fiber of %51 of our species. (Nevermind that the movie is full of hundreds of real homeless men, ungrateful men, insensitive men, and too-busy-for-you men. HOW can we raise our sons with so many examples of flawed, normal people around them?!)
“All-white, male utopia,” Prairie Miller? Chris Gardner’s moment of Happyness at the end is realizing he can provide for his son again. He runs to the day-care and grasps the boy. But I suppose Christ would need to become Christina for the underlying theme of the story to matter, since “single dad doing whatever it takes to raise his child” isn’t as archetypical as single mothers.
Of course, if it was a story about small town girl Christina, working a no-pay internship, beating out a room of college-educated men, to work in a prestigious firm after being dumped by her boyfriend, kicked out her apartment, forced to live in a Baptist church shelter and running, running, running all over San Francisco with only her skill “with numbers and people” to help her…
But, no, let’s get back to judging Chris for not calling child services or some government agency, which would probably take his boy away, which is the very point of this movie. Chris Gardner wanted to raise his son. Forget even the Rags-to-Riches plot, which is so easy for political-minded dunderheads to fall back on. The man wanted to stay in his child’s life. He reached for anything that could help him and did many stupid, risky, dangerous, foolish things for that goal. Just like every other hero that has ever been worth telling a story about. But that’s a Bad thing in this case, because he is Black, thus his only real options are to revolt against the entirety of America because he’s poor, yet also get on welfare.
I’ve wasted an hour of my life to this letter, wasted time being offended at you for being offended at this, so now I am just sad. In 1984, a Chinese immigrant mistook Happyness for Happiness and that offends you. A black guy you don’t know wasn’t willing to give Chris Gardner $14 and for Chris to mention that in a retelling of his rise from poverty offends you. Portraying flaws in “people of color” piss you off?
Pretentious people piss me off. Being told that by a presidential candidate that “we need more aid for Blacks, Hispanics and poor whites” pisses me off, because I feel like punching the White guy that thinks that “Black and Hispanic” don’t also need adjective qualifiers like “poor”. “Feminist” commentary on “how women are portrayed” pisses me off because the Critical Woman reviewing the film assign more stereotypes and labels than anyone else. Turning every movie, even action-adventure leave-your-brain-at-home ones into about Issues because the lead character is not a white male. I live for the day that the Everyday Unlucky Dude is an Asiamerican guy or a native girl and some “professionally offended” twit doesn’t hark about how unrealistic it is for them to care more about saving the world, getting the girl, or running for their lives than about Important Racial/Gender Issues!
I should save Prairie Miller’s review, so that I may have a reference for a (actually fictional) pundit in my own fantasy stories, but alas, if I used her as a satirical map, I’d be accused of stereotyping liberal-minded poets with Ivory Tower degrees. “Complaining that the hero is TOO enterprising? Being offended that non-white people can misspell words? Talking about the evils of the brokerage industry in a film about a father going to extreme lengths to care for his son? No, not even the dizziest of New England twits would complain THIS much about how life can really turn out.”
Urg, and to think I once wanted to go to Barnard…
http://wbai.org/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=9437&Itemid=2
My response. lol:
I know, it's late, but I only have one thing to say:
Please take the high-minded stick out of your ass when reviewing your films. Should Chris Gardner have changed his whole life to meet your politically correct expectations?
The point of every romantic tale is that the hero is exceptional and performing outrageous tasks that the audience could only dream of, yet when the story is "Black man gets ahead by tenacity and insane goals," you tell audience, "this film is telling you your poverty is your own fault, that you are lazy." WAIT, WHAT!?
Is Batman's fight against crime saying "It's your fault that crime is rampant in your hood. What's stopping you from putting on a costume and beating up criminals?"
Every paragraph of The Pursuit of Happyness review is dripping with offended scoffing so self-righteous that the reviewer barely cares about the "based on a true story" aspect and, instead, insists that the story is racist, sexist and classist for reasons that would make sense… IF THE STORY WEREN’T TRUE!
"There are no positive female characters. Look! The wife was a shrew!” Yes, because the real Chris Gardner sold off their whole savings on a crappy product. I'd be pissed, too. Am I the only one who felt pity on her and hoped that the real woman kept in touch with her son after all this happened? Were the writers supposed to change Mr. Twissle into a woman?
"This film is manipulating you to dislike the poor because two or three people in Chris's life were not helpful to him, while the white people were. (This is all wrong. White people are always the problem.)" It’s so sad that you are willing to ignore the flaws of the stock brokers just for a chance at some high-brow cross-victimization. Those white men spent half the movie looking pass Chris, barely paying him attention, thinking about their football game, their next appointment or a damn Rubik’s cube. Stiffing him in cab fare, taking his money, pushing him to do chores… Not because he is Black, either, but because he’s an Intern and that’s his lot in life until he rises higher.
And I suppose the kindness of the Glide Memorial Baptist Church, whose Black director played himself in the movie, means nothing to you? The reviewer comments on how “not possible on this planet,” it would be for a man to go into a men’s shelter with a child, but obviously it was little exceptions like this that caused the real Chris Gardner to have the script changed to add him in. “If it weren’t for him, I wouldn’t be here. He had to be in it.”
“Then he could have added in a woman! There had to have been some woman who helped him during this time!” The story is about a man making a life for his son and the review stops to write about how women are portrayed… as if a hippy stealing some gizmo or a girlfriend at the end of her rope is meant to summarize the moral fiber of %51 of our species. (Nevermind that the movie is full of hundreds of real homeless men, ungrateful men, insensitive men, and too-busy-for-you men. HOW can we raise our sons with so many examples of flawed, normal people around them?!)
“All-white, male utopia,” Prairie Miller? Chris Gardner’s moment of Happyness at the end is realizing he can provide for his son again. He runs to the day-care and grasps the boy. But I suppose Christ would need to become Christina for the underlying theme of the story to matter, since “single dad doing whatever it takes to raise his child” isn’t as archetypical as single mothers.
Of course, if it was a story about small town girl Christina, working a no-pay internship, beating out a room of college-educated men, to work in a prestigious firm after being dumped by her boyfriend, kicked out her apartment, forced to live in a Baptist church shelter and running, running, running all over San Francisco with only her skill “with numbers and people” to help her…
But, no, let’s get back to judging Chris for not calling child services or some government agency, which would probably take his boy away, which is the very point of this movie. Chris Gardner wanted to raise his son. Forget even the Rags-to-Riches plot, which is so easy for political-minded dunderheads to fall back on. The man wanted to stay in his child’s life. He reached for anything that could help him and did many stupid, risky, dangerous, foolish things for that goal. Just like every other hero that has ever been worth telling a story about. But that’s a Bad thing in this case, because he is Black, thus his only real options are to revolt against the entirety of America because he’s poor, yet also get on welfare.
I’ve wasted an hour of my life to this letter, wasted time being offended at you for being offended at this, so now I am just sad. In 1984, a Chinese immigrant mistook Happyness for Happiness and that offends you. A black guy you don’t know wasn’t willing to give Chris Gardner $14 and for Chris to mention that in a retelling of his rise from poverty offends you. Portraying flaws in “people of color” piss you off?
Pretentious people piss me off. Being told that by a presidential candidate that “we need more aid for Blacks, Hispanics and poor whites” pisses me off, because I feel like punching the White guy that thinks that “Black and Hispanic” don’t also need adjective qualifiers like “poor”. “Feminist” commentary on “how women are portrayed” pisses me off because the Critical Woman reviewing the film assign more stereotypes and labels than anyone else. Turning every movie, even action-adventure leave-your-brain-at-home ones into about Issues because the lead character is not a white male. I live for the day that the Everyday Unlucky Dude is an Asiamerican guy or a native girl and some “professionally offended” twit doesn’t hark about how unrealistic it is for them to care more about saving the world, getting the girl, or running for their lives than about Important Racial/Gender Issues!
I should save Prairie Miller’s review, so that I may have a reference for a (actually fictional) pundit in my own fantasy stories, but alas, if I used her as a satirical map, I’d be accused of stereotyping liberal-minded poets with Ivory Tower degrees. “Complaining that the hero is TOO enterprising? Being offended that non-white people can misspell words? Talking about the evils of the brokerage industry in a film about a father going to extreme lengths to care for his son? No, not even the dizziest of New England twits would complain THIS much about how life can really turn out.”
Urg, and to think I once wanted to go to Barnard…
Sunday, October 25, 2009
Urban Wastelands
I pass by hundreds of abandoned houses and storefronts here in Cleveland. It is sickening to meditate on the conditions of Chicago, Detroit, Youngstown and other industrial cities.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
RDMS: Preventive Care
How would preventive care become common when...?
1. Most people don’t talk to doctors that often.
a. Why? Usual reason starts with socialization (not trained to think that way), then with it costing money, not enough doctors for common rapport
b. How do you start up rapport? Supporters build rapport with lower health officials like nurses. Build the new system with anything given, hoping to upgrade later.
2. Most people don’t want to change their health habits.
a. Why? Inertia, pride, stubbornness, disagreeing with preventive care, dismotivation
b. Why do people that DO want preventive care not change their habits? The sea of detractors keeps support of change low. Change is difficult when no one else cares.
c. Why do people who don’t want preventive care keep their habits? Who cares? If they don’t want preventive care, they aren’t the ones being serviced. Why bother with persuading distracters? The focus should be on building a preventive care system that can sustain itself even with the few people who would want it. In time, by the virtue of our truth, will we become “common”. We can only build that system by ignoring distracters and focusing all attention and resources on the supporters: separating them from distracters (Black), supporting them (White), reminding them to support us (Yellow), and building a proper, legal, inclusive alternative (Red).
3. Training one general practice doctor takes 10 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
a. Why? System demands a pre-med degree, then medical school, then fellowship as standard. Training facilities compete to be revolutionary, costing money. Colleges are systematically expensive and rising.
b. Where is the equilibrium between time (and money) to train and the quality needed for preventive care doctors? Research needed. Look into how developing countries train doctors and other training standards, like for registered nurses, dentists and unconventional doctors.
i. How would a sub-standard doctor become credited? By truthfully stating an efficient standard for a preventive care doctor/nurse and providing results using that standard, you can build credit and respect for the standard.
4. Most American doctors are surgeons instead of general practice doctors.
a. Why? The cost on a student to become a doctor is so great they are forced to specialize to get out of debt. Laws are designed to keep up demand for surgeons. General doctors require more commitment on patient’s end, which is not in demand.
b. How many doctors would be willing to go to a new system? Probably not many, but that is only a temporary problem. Doctors training other doctors makes more doctors in the future. Look to people who are attracted to Doctors Without Borders and other humanistic ways to practice. There is no point in looking to people who want money.
c. Could we reduce their debt? In time, maybe, but the point of the process is to start with leftovers from the old system and build a new one that wouldn’t put medical students in so much debt to start with. By that logic, why waste energy transfiguring the old when we are meant to birth new?
5. The present industry controls its regulation and laws.
a. Why? Because all industries eventually insure their survival by the law.
b. What could we do about this? Request separate laws applicable to us. We will live alongside the old system.
c. How do you start a medical school? I don’t know.
d. What about insurance and liability? Insurance goes hand in hand with the medical industry, mostly because the medical industry is systematically expensive, thus requiring an auxiliary insurance industry that is systematically miserly. At the same time, the miserable treatment of patients backfires with lawsuit-happy patients. The whole mess breeds contempt and distrust between client and professional.
i. How do we protect ourselves from misery? By working under the established system to cover liability, with full intent of separating and strictly discriminating based on attitude. By working under the establishment but not for it, we observe misery in its natural habitat. We can understand it. Human nature breeds misery.
1. What is breeding these problems? Greedy people taking advantage of human nature, companies looking to profit off the sick instead of an output-based operation, the industry being systematically expensive thus making a starting point for change difficult to isolate, people speaking on the topic with intent to deceive, organizational and bureaucratic mismanagement…
a. And then? And then we separate. If a person is not willing to address these breeding pits immediately, they do not really want to separate.
ii. And insurance? The insurance market exists because healthcare is expensive. By having a “universal” pool of funds for all members, insurance is obsolete. The goal is to heal, not to pay for healing. Research the most common procedures done in medicine, how much they cost, and why they charge their fee. If 30% of members may have one blood transfusion at some time in their lives, and a blood transfusion costs $1,000, then the pool of money should balance out to having $30,000 per 100 members for blood transfusions.
1. Most people don’t talk to doctors that often.
a. Why? Usual reason starts with socialization (not trained to think that way), then with it costing money, not enough doctors for common rapport
b. How do you start up rapport? Supporters build rapport with lower health officials like nurses. Build the new system with anything given, hoping to upgrade later.
2. Most people don’t want to change their health habits.
a. Why? Inertia, pride, stubbornness, disagreeing with preventive care, dismotivation
b. Why do people that DO want preventive care not change their habits? The sea of detractors keeps support of change low. Change is difficult when no one else cares.
c. Why do people who don’t want preventive care keep their habits? Who cares? If they don’t want preventive care, they aren’t the ones being serviced. Why bother with persuading distracters? The focus should be on building a preventive care system that can sustain itself even with the few people who would want it. In time, by the virtue of our truth, will we become “common”. We can only build that system by ignoring distracters and focusing all attention and resources on the supporters: separating them from distracters (Black), supporting them (White), reminding them to support us (Yellow), and building a proper, legal, inclusive alternative (Red).
3. Training one general practice doctor takes 10 years and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
a. Why? System demands a pre-med degree, then medical school, then fellowship as standard. Training facilities compete to be revolutionary, costing money. Colleges are systematically expensive and rising.
b. Where is the equilibrium between time (and money) to train and the quality needed for preventive care doctors? Research needed. Look into how developing countries train doctors and other training standards, like for registered nurses, dentists and unconventional doctors.
i. How would a sub-standard doctor become credited? By truthfully stating an efficient standard for a preventive care doctor/nurse and providing results using that standard, you can build credit and respect for the standard.
4. Most American doctors are surgeons instead of general practice doctors.
a. Why? The cost on a student to become a doctor is so great they are forced to specialize to get out of debt. Laws are designed to keep up demand for surgeons. General doctors require more commitment on patient’s end, which is not in demand.
b. How many doctors would be willing to go to a new system? Probably not many, but that is only a temporary problem. Doctors training other doctors makes more doctors in the future. Look to people who are attracted to Doctors Without Borders and other humanistic ways to practice. There is no point in looking to people who want money.
c. Could we reduce their debt? In time, maybe, but the point of the process is to start with leftovers from the old system and build a new one that wouldn’t put medical students in so much debt to start with. By that logic, why waste energy transfiguring the old when we are meant to birth new?
5. The present industry controls its regulation and laws.
a. Why? Because all industries eventually insure their survival by the law.
b. What could we do about this? Request separate laws applicable to us. We will live alongside the old system.
c. How do you start a medical school? I don’t know.
d. What about insurance and liability? Insurance goes hand in hand with the medical industry, mostly because the medical industry is systematically expensive, thus requiring an auxiliary insurance industry that is systematically miserly. At the same time, the miserable treatment of patients backfires with lawsuit-happy patients. The whole mess breeds contempt and distrust between client and professional.
i. How do we protect ourselves from misery? By working under the established system to cover liability, with full intent of separating and strictly discriminating based on attitude. By working under the establishment but not for it, we observe misery in its natural habitat. We can understand it. Human nature breeds misery.
1. What is breeding these problems? Greedy people taking advantage of human nature, companies looking to profit off the sick instead of an output-based operation, the industry being systematically expensive thus making a starting point for change difficult to isolate, people speaking on the topic with intent to deceive, organizational and bureaucratic mismanagement…
a. And then? And then we separate. If a person is not willing to address these breeding pits immediately, they do not really want to separate.
ii. And insurance? The insurance market exists because healthcare is expensive. By having a “universal” pool of funds for all members, insurance is obsolete. The goal is to heal, not to pay for healing. Research the most common procedures done in medicine, how much they cost, and why they charge their fee. If 30% of members may have one blood transfusion at some time in their lives, and a blood transfusion costs $1,000, then the pool of money should balance out to having $30,000 per 100 members for blood transfusions.
Wednesday, October 7, 2009
Yahoo! Answers :)
Hullo, hullo.
I've been writing questions on Yahoo Answers. The result is just as I expected--So I won't go into that negativity. :P
But if any of these questions strike you, feel free to give a reply-answer.
What would you contribute...
to increase basic nutrition for underclass kids?
to build a Progressive media outlet?
to make childhood easier for the underclass?
to improve your neighborhood?
to improve the teamwork/communication of your favorite civic group?
in a village based on a common social goal?
to see "kids respect authority" in your neighborhood?
to get your city/town off coal and oil?
How can society/gov’t/the health care industry raise prevention care demand to meet supply?
(Asked the same question thrice in different areas... I'm pretty sure thats breaking policy. :S)
Would you live in a village based on a common social goal?
What enables you to actively live your cultural ideals?
What prevents you from actively living your cultural ideals?
Do communists, socialists and democratic socialists set up credit unions amongst themselves?
(I've been really interested in what fringe groups actually DO in America...)
I've been writing questions on Yahoo Answers. The result is just as I expected--So I won't go into that negativity. :P
But if any of these questions strike you, feel free to give a reply-answer.
What would you contribute...
to increase basic nutrition for underclass kids?
to build a Progressive media outlet?
to make childhood easier for the underclass?
to improve your neighborhood?
to improve the teamwork/communication of your favorite civic group?
in a village based on a common social goal?
to see "kids respect authority" in your neighborhood?
to get your city/town off coal and oil?
How can society/gov’t/the health care industry raise prevention care demand to meet supply?
(Asked the same question thrice in different areas... I'm pretty sure thats breaking policy. :S)
Would you live in a village based on a common social goal?
What enables you to actively live your cultural ideals?
What prevents you from actively living your cultural ideals?
Do communists, socialists and democratic socialists set up credit unions amongst themselves?
(I've been really interested in what fringe groups actually DO in America...)
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Rant on Black Nation-Building
Revolutionary: What skills can you offer for nation-building in the Black community?
Flags and poetry and bold words mean nothing without that one word in your opening question:
SKILLS.
Afro-centric Black people, and every other fringe culture group in America, needs to learn that their big talk is worthless if they can't do the basics in life.
A city needs, to sustain itself, energy, transportation, trade, means of social control, food, water, waste disposal and a means for education.
That isn't sexy, sassy or dynamic. It's just public administration. And people don't want to do it because that would mean acquiring skills, using them and having few to blame but themselves if they come up short.
Every fringe group in America depends on the mainstream, no matter how different they claim to be. If you think Pan-Africanism is a worthwhile goal, then go for it. But realize that "independent business" isn't enough. They have to re-create the entire net or not both at all, because they will only be fooling themselves.
Flags and poetry and bold words mean nothing without that one word in your opening question:
SKILLS.
Afro-centric Black people, and every other fringe culture group in America, needs to learn that their big talk is worthless if they can't do the basics in life.
A city needs, to sustain itself, energy, transportation, trade, means of social control, food, water, waste disposal and a means for education.
That isn't sexy, sassy or dynamic. It's just public administration. And people don't want to do it because that would mean acquiring skills, using them and having few to blame but themselves if they come up short.
Every fringe group in America depends on the mainstream, no matter how different they claim to be. If you think Pan-Africanism is a worthwhile goal, then go for it. But realize that "independent business" isn't enough. They have to re-create the entire net or not both at all, because they will only be fooling themselves.
Rant on White Flight and Blacks Movin' Up
I've talked to plenty of Blacks who move into White suburbs...
They want better school care.
They want better jobs.
They want better tax rates...
Awesome goals, you guys, but you DO realize that your goals are all about what YOU want and that you are poorer than the area you are moving to (which WILL cause a tax problem), you are bring a different culture with you, and you think you can invade their space, take their resources, make yourself richer and you have no intention of giving something back?
True, poor Whites and poor Blacks move to richer neighborhoods for the exact same reason and cause the exact same tax problem, yet poor Blacks add being Different, and most people I know that move into White suburbs have no intention of ever addressing that diplomatically.
"I am Christian like you and a strict parent like you. No, I am not Italian, but I would love to learn more about how Little Italy was formed."
Instead of focusing on what others should do to accommodate YOU, more people should focusing on accommodating others or just leave them alone.
They want better school care.
They want better jobs.
They want better tax rates...
Awesome goals, you guys, but you DO realize that your goals are all about what YOU want and that you are poorer than the area you are moving to (which WILL cause a tax problem), you are bring a different culture with you, and you think you can invade their space, take their resources, make yourself richer and you have no intention of giving something back?
True, poor Whites and poor Blacks move to richer neighborhoods for the exact same reason and cause the exact same tax problem, yet poor Blacks add being Different, and most people I know that move into White suburbs have no intention of ever addressing that diplomatically.
"I am Christian like you and a strict parent like you. No, I am not Italian, but I would love to learn more about how Little Italy was formed."
Instead of focusing on what others should do to accommodate YOU, more people should focusing on accommodating others or just leave them alone.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Rant on Education and Family
Something I posted somewhere else:
And about the school system: It doesn't exist in a vacuum, so I look also to modern understanding of family. Women, once given more freedom to be something other than a nurse or teacher, choose that way. Which means an expectable, though politically ignored, decrease in the quality of teachers.
Also, the feminist movement has put extreme economic pressure on the female half. Increasing the workforce by over 40% decreases the value of the most common workers, making it nearly impossible for a the average man to provide for four people on his high school diploma salary.
It is hard to address this publicly because 1) the damage is done and 2) professional offended people will be offended.
The underlying structure of a family and expectations for economy, which MEANS "home", have been shaken and, apparently, no one is allowed to say anything about it.
Has globalization taken away jobs? Hell yes, but there will always be something taking away jobs. I look always inward, to adaptability, to ingenuity and production. There is no reason why the Rust Belt and the poor South should still be the way they are when we have the means to educate all, which is not the responsibility, IMHO, solely on the public education system.
And about the school system: It doesn't exist in a vacuum, so I look also to modern understanding of family. Women, once given more freedom to be something other than a nurse or teacher, choose that way. Which means an expectable, though politically ignored, decrease in the quality of teachers.
Also, the feminist movement has put extreme economic pressure on the female half. Increasing the workforce by over 40% decreases the value of the most common workers, making it nearly impossible for a the average man to provide for four people on his high school diploma salary.
It is hard to address this publicly because 1) the damage is done and 2) professional offended people will be offended.
The underlying structure of a family and expectations for economy, which MEANS "home", have been shaken and, apparently, no one is allowed to say anything about it.
Has globalization taken away jobs? Hell yes, but there will always be something taking away jobs. I look always inward, to adaptability, to ingenuity and production. There is no reason why the Rust Belt and the poor South should still be the way they are when we have the means to educate all, which is not the responsibility, IMHO, solely on the public education system.
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Research and Writing
"Let the words from my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, my lord, my strength, my redeemer."
Just got back from the Congress on Christian Education. A forum about economic development gave me the proper way to organize my ideas for application (as opposed to academic).
1) Introduction
2) Needs
3) Approach
Which breaks off into (7) Goals, each with (3) Objectives and Methods
4) Evaluation
5) Budget
I should break my research and experiences up by this... Hmmm. More on this, later.
Just got back from the Congress on Christian Education. A forum about economic development gave me the proper way to organize my ideas for application (as opposed to academic).
1) Introduction
2) Needs
3) Approach
Which breaks off into (7) Goals, each with (3) Objectives and Methods
4) Evaluation
5) Budget
I should break my research and experiences up by this... Hmmm. More on this, later.
Iranian Revolution, Sponsered By Twitter
And to think, several months ago I hated Twitter because of old fogy Senators and pop icons. Now, because the old fogies of Iran have shut off all outside outlets except the Internet (perhaps they haven’t heard of it yet?) Iranians are using Twitter, YouTube and Facebook to get messages out and around the world. God bless em. Fight always for freedom and for the chance to question.
Questions about American Christanity: Capitalism and You
If America consumes and doesn't produce, isn't it the duty of the disciples of God to reverse that? Humanity's mandate is "Be fruitful and multiply" not "Be fruitless and indebt yourself to China".
The complexities of vulgar life have exhausted the disciples of God. The 9-to-5 is exhausting, the politics are exhausting, the games are so, so exhausting. Yet Christians work in this world 6 days a week and spend 2 hours on Sunday in God's temple, free of capitalism's (the love of money) tiring demands. But even there, vulgar life intrudes! Shouldn't we have our own foundation, built on Christ's love instead of the love of money?
"Come to me, all of you who are tired and are carrying heavy loads. I will give you rest. Become my servants and learn from me. I am gentle and free of pride. You will find rest for your souls. Serving me is easy, and my load is light." (Matt 11: 28-30)
The complexities of vulgar life have exhausted the disciples of God. The 9-to-5 is exhausting, the politics are exhausting, the games are so, so exhausting. Yet Christians work in this world 6 days a week and spend 2 hours on Sunday in God's temple, free of capitalism's (the love of money) tiring demands. But even there, vulgar life intrudes! Shouldn't we have our own foundation, built on Christ's love instead of the love of money?
"Come to me, all of you who are tired and are carrying heavy loads. I will give you rest. Become my servants and learn from me. I am gentle and free of pride. You will find rest for your souls. Serving me is easy, and my load is light." (Matt 11: 28-30)
Questions about American Christanity: Polymaths and Education
Polymaths. Where are they? God gives each of us a plethora of talents, gifts and abilities and the his mandate is to go into the vast, complex world and show his greatness to all by our ACTIONS. So then, why is "Christian Education" limited to Bible Study? The first act of the Holy Spirit was to allow Peter and the Church to praise God in every language of the Old World. Men from Rome, Cyprus, and Minor Asia passed by the temple and could hear the Gospel in their own language. That is amazing. That is the power of God. Yet, the modern churches of America are xenophobic, ethnically segregated and monolingual.
Additionally, the if Jesus' words were true and in these days "sons and daughters will prophesy" then darn it, every Christian should receive a prophet's education! Moses received the best education in the world, being in the royal court of the most powerful empire of his time. And even as it was his faith in God that rescued his people, it was his knowledge of government that built them their own nation. Slaves used their oppressors tools to make a world for their own, but in America, Black leaders try to demonize European culture and even embrace foolish concepts like Ebonics instead of embracing the strange opportunities God gives them.
Joseph was taught many subjects in the tent while his brothers worked the land. Yes, it was his faith in God that allowed him to survive his ordeals, but he was taught to read and write Egyptian, the foreign language of pagans, taught math and finance, taught many things because his father loved him and wanted the best for him. Don't we love our children? Don't we know that this Earth is God's and that to know more of the Earth is to know more of how he operates?
Jesus was born in a time that his nation was again under an Empire. Yet he knew Greek. He knew how to read and write. He knew more about the average world than most, even though his mission was restricted to Israel. He mandated to us that we teach his words to the whole world, yet we refuse to even learn another language or travel as he or Paul did! Polymaths show God's greatness by the beauty of their abilities and their ability to act when God calls on them.
Christian Education is all education. Nothing can be left out.
1 Corinthians 9: The Rights of an Apostle
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus our Lord? ...
If I preach because I want to, I get a reward. If I preach because I have to, I'm only doing my duty. Then what reward do I get? Here is what it is. I am able to preach the good news free of charge. And I can do it without making use of my rights when I preach it.
Additionally, the if Jesus' words were true and in these days "sons and daughters will prophesy" then darn it, every Christian should receive a prophet's education! Moses received the best education in the world, being in the royal court of the most powerful empire of his time. And even as it was his faith in God that rescued his people, it was his knowledge of government that built them their own nation. Slaves used their oppressors tools to make a world for their own, but in America, Black leaders try to demonize European culture and even embrace foolish concepts like Ebonics instead of embracing the strange opportunities God gives them.
Joseph was taught many subjects in the tent while his brothers worked the land. Yes, it was his faith in God that allowed him to survive his ordeals, but he was taught to read and write Egyptian, the foreign language of pagans, taught math and finance, taught many things because his father loved him and wanted the best for him. Don't we love our children? Don't we know that this Earth is God's and that to know more of the Earth is to know more of how he operates?
Jesus was born in a time that his nation was again under an Empire. Yet he knew Greek. He knew how to read and write. He knew more about the average world than most, even though his mission was restricted to Israel. He mandated to us that we teach his words to the whole world, yet we refuse to even learn another language or travel as he or Paul did! Polymaths show God's greatness by the beauty of their abilities and their ability to act when God calls on them.
Christian Education is all education. Nothing can be left out.
1 Corinthians 9: The Rights of an Apostle
Am I not free? Am I not an apostle? Haven't I seen Jesus our Lord? ...
If I preach because I want to, I get a reward. If I preach because I have to, I'm only doing my duty. Then what reward do I get? Here is what it is. I am able to preach the good news free of charge. And I can do it without making use of my rights when I preach it.
I am free. I don't belong to anyone. But I make myself a slave to everyone. I do it to win as many as I can to Christ.
To the Jews I became like a Jew. That was to win the Jews. To those under the law I became like one who was under the law, even though I myself am not under the law. That was to win those under the law. To those who don't have the law I became like one who doesn't have the law. I am not free from God's law. I am under Christ's law. Now I can win those who don't have the law. To those who are weak I became weak. That was to win the weak.
I have become all things to all people so that in all possible ways I might save some. 23 I do all of that because of the good news. And I want to share in its blessings....
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Friday, March 6, 2009
Leadership Speaker Series: Geoffrey Canada
He. Is. The. Man.
Watch this instead of a Hollywood blockbuster. It's probably got more suspense.
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Twittering Idiots
"Not only where the Senator's cell phones and Blackberries on during President's Obama's speech, they were using them."
So I have to turn mine of in Urban Sociology class, but these morons think they can use it?
What is wrong with them? Do they think that flashy, new gimmicks will work this time? They look disrespectful and even more idiotic than usual.
:(
So I have to turn mine of in Urban Sociology class, but these morons think they can use it?
What is wrong with them? Do they think that flashy, new gimmicks will work this time? They look disrespectful and even more idiotic than usual.
:(
Sunday, March 1, 2009
From Youtube: Working Poor and Education
I want to hear thoughts and contribution to policies for addressing these two big problems, which most people ignore because they obsess over democrats and republicans and their stupid song-and-dance.
THE WORKING POOR: The bottom 20th percentile of the country makes so little income that their condition is compatible to second-world countries. (The 40th percentile is only marginally better.) They have a reason for asking the government for aid, they can't afford it on their own. Now, back in the good-ol-days, a factory owner paid his slaves --i mean, workers-- only the tiniest amount and also lobbied the state to not "bail them out with other peoples tax dollars" because the poor deserved their swallows. They were uneducated and dumb. They obviously didn't have what it takes to be better... If the WE are any better than the devils in business suits who have ran Western Civilization up until this point, what policies address this economic sadism?
EDUCATION: Real, liberal arts education is the key to success in the 21st century and it should be something on the top of the agenda at all times. The New England families that influence every aspect of American policy sure as hell are a not an unorganized herd of cats. And they know the true value of education, which isn't reading, writing and arithmetic, but the capacity for a person to look at a problem, take any possible information around them and come up with a solution. Bears fish, birds nest and humans think and manufacture. We need education that can teach the underclass and the working poor how to do BOTH since as things are they are not taught to do either.
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THE WORKING POOR: The bottom 20th percentile of the country makes so little income that their condition is compatible to second-world countries. (The 40th percentile is only marginally better.) They have a reason for asking the government for aid, they can't afford it on their own. Now, back in the good-ol-days, a factory owner paid his slaves --i mean, workers-- only the tiniest amount and also lobbied the state to not "bail them out with other peoples tax dollars" because the poor deserved their swallows. They were uneducated and dumb. They obviously didn't have what it takes to be better... If the WE are any better than the devils in business suits who have ran Western Civilization up until this point, what policies address this economic sadism?
EDUCATION: Real, liberal arts education is the key to success in the 21st century and it should be something on the top of the agenda at all times. The New England families that influence every aspect of American policy sure as hell are a not an unorganized herd of cats. And they know the true value of education, which isn't reading, writing and arithmetic, but the capacity for a person to look at a problem, take any possible information around them and come up with a solution. Bears fish, birds nest and humans think and manufacture. We need education that can teach the underclass and the working poor how to do BOTH since as things are they are not taught to do either.
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