Posted in critical culture, humor, web media on Jun 23rd, 2008 No Comments »
George Carlin, truth teller.
The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they’re an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don’t. You have no choice. You have owners. They own you. […]
Posted in critical culture, philosophy, politics on Jun 7th, 2008 No Comments »
This ideological approach is needed to legitimate predominant relations of domination (obtaining primarily among a ruling elite of experts, professionals, politicians, etc., and a well-administered citizenry) as being neutral and natural. Not only does this framework require automatic dismissal of all other modes of political organization, but also discrediting ideas perceived to be their ideological […]
Posted in Wilber, critical culture, integral, philosophy on Jun 2nd, 2008 No Comments »
The following could serve as the subject of an assignment: What’s wrong at the level of assumptions found in the following argument?
I’ve provided some helpful italicizing.
At the second gathering of the teachers of Integral Spiritual Center, Patrick Sweeney famously asked Ken Wilber, “what can we do to stay out of Appendix III of Integral Spirituality?” […]
Posted in adult learning, anthropology, civic intelligence, community development, critical culture on May 5th, 2008 No Comments »
The Heights Observer, like the Lakewood paper, is written by citizens, who use AGS’s web-based program to upload stories and photographs onto a server. Volunteer editors read the content, post stories to the paper’s web site and design newspaper pages, all via the Internet.
The volunteers and low overhead will allow the Heights Observer to keep […]
Posted in anthropology, civic intelligence, community development, critical culture, critical thinking on Mar 8th, 2008 No Comments »
Having intended to get a clear shot unencumbered by glare or rain, I still missed out clearly capturing this sign in the window of the library annex in Cleveland Heights.
Could a community be an art form?
I believe it it could be. Even better, with the deployment of intention, chops, communal creativity and spontaneous poetics fused […]
Posted in critical culture, dr. puck riffs, mythology on Jun 11th, 2007 No Comments »
…and it is over; on TV at least.
There’s nothing Sopranos fans can do about the ending now. The end is past near. Auteur and honcho David Chase surprised all of his show’s viewers, whether they were low, middle, or high brow, and swept away every last piece of speculation that the Sopranos would be snuffed […]
Posted in anthropology, community development, critical culture, experiential learning, social psychology, urbanology on May 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Lakewood Ohio’s Visionary Alignment often finds its grip on the Observation Deck of the Lakewood Observer, the city’s all volunteer community newspaper. A thread there, unfolding since May 12, Race, Courage and the Future of Lakewood exemplifies the spirit of deep inquiry that is one of the core facets of this project.
The Visionary Alignment is […]
Posted in critical culture, critical thinking, new paradigms, phenomenology, philosophy, speculations on May 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
After borrowing Ken Wilber’s latest book,Integral Spirituality from the library, I was moved to purchase it because I had dipped into it and read the following on page 176:
The myth of the given or monological consciousness is essentially another name for phenomenology and mere empiricism in any of a hundred guises–whether regular empiricism, radical empiricism, […]
Posted in critical culture, philosophy on Apr 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Posted in a-ha!, critical culture, new paradigms on Jan 30th, 2007 No Comments »
(Terence McKenna clip) To this I would add: Culture programs you and deprograms the Four Noble Truths.
Posted in anthropology, critical culture, internet, self-reported values, sociology on Dec 9th, 2006 No Comments »
With exquisite timing, Google today released its year-end Zeitgeist report, revealing “our collective consciousness” as expressed through our searches. The list of our top-ten news searches of the year provides a delightful preview of what we can expect when those dastardly news editors finally stop filtering the news and let “us” decide what we need […]
Posted in critical culture, current events, politics on Nov 3rd, 2006 No Comments »
(Three: Richard Grossinger, Lewis Lapham, Frank Rich; the tell like it is trio.)
Anthropologist Richard Grossinger; excerpt from the single best book–imo–about the post 9/11 cosmos, On the Integration of Nature. Post-9/11 Biopolitical Notes
Many years from now, when the consequences of this regime are known, America will be a full-fledged Third World country, a rust-belt mega-slum […]
Posted in critical culture, current events, sustainability on Oct 26th, 2006 No Comments »
it is quite possible for commonsense to join with an iconoclastic mission. My friend Alan Kuper, the father of a junior high classmate of forty years ago, and a retired professor of electrical engineering, is on such a mission. At the same time, his approach is commonsensical: he has devised a system of […]
Posted in Gregory Bateson, coherencies, consciousness, critical culture, modern views, new paradigms, philosophy, science, sociology on Jul 18th, 2006 No Comments »
Yeah, What Bateson said.
From a Batesonian perspective, it is the way we classify, make distinctions, and make sense of things that is fundamental. If it is the distinctions we ourselves make that are causes, then it is how we process information and map the territory that explains. Within this framework, any explanation or scientific activity […]
Posted in community development, critical culture, economics, new paradigms, urbanology on Jul 4th, 2005 No Comments »
Meanwhile…over Lakewood way, I’m involved as advisor, facilitator, and writer in the Lakewood Observer project. As an east sider with one foot planted in Lakewood, I like to believe myself to be the observer of the Observer. The crew of characters has been uniquely open and have welcomed my involvement and the wild stuffs I […]
Posted in art, critical culture on Apr 29th, 2005 No Comments »
“We can never see things with the x-ray vision of Superman or the deductive brilliance of Dick Tracy, but we can sure as hell remember what it was like being stomped on by authorities, whether parents, cops or some terrifying ogress of a nun, as little Robert was in his Catholic school nearly half […]
Posted in critical culture, current events, modern views, politics on Apr 25th, 2005 No Comments »
We shall examine whether the perennial anxiety that accompanies imperial hegemony in the New World might be a compensatory gesture for the originary Ishmaelite fate of castoffs relentlessly clamoring for re-integration into the mainline genealogical history as the chosen people. In the insistent regularity with which those serviceable simplicities of self-identity reify, essentialize, and globalize […]
Posted in adult learning, critical culture, experiential learning, transformative learning on Apr 3rd, 2005 No Comments »
A Prelude to the Manifesto for Education in the Age of Technology by Robin Martin December 1997 The first half of this manifesto is an attempt to come to terms with some of the not-so-positive trends emerging within technology and society, with a focus on education in particular. Then, in the second half, I’ve […]
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