My last post was written in the absurdist vein because I felt ridiculous trying to tell anyone about reality. As I indicated, that doesn’t stop most people, so we need a way to talk about this subject without being patronizing and narcissistic as in: “I have the answers and you don’t.” One way for me […]
WHAT IS REALITY?
This is, like, the most intimidating title evaaarrrhh! I switch to humor to mask my feelings of inadequacy In a different mood, enhanced by hubris and a legal substance or two (when I was writing the previous post) I thought I knew what reality was, or is, or, whatevaaarrrhh! It’s not working, just thinking about […]
Getting back to Reality
There is no shortage of injunctions to “keep it real.” That’s one right there. Squaring your life with reality… …is at the heart of every religion and spiritual tradition out there, or should I say in there? It is the basis of psychology and its exhortations to be healthy (functional?), and, of course, teaching kids […]
The Reach of Injustice
In the last post, I wrote about the ACEs study that showed a strong association between childhood abuse, neglect and mistreatment with poor school performance and behavior initially and elevated risk for health care problems later in life. I concluded by expressing my hope that the various communities and programs that use this study to […]
Can we raise just one generation of children well?
There is a simple solution to solving all the world’s problems All we need to do is to raise just one generation of children the right way. For the entire world, that comes to 3.3 billion people. I figure if you give them everything they need in terms of love, security, nutrition, education and […]
And Neoliberalism for All – Part V
And Neoliberalism for All Well, even I know I got to stop writing about neoliberalism, but just one more. The last four characteristics of neoliberalism to discuss are: Financial objectives over social objectives Corporations over workers Reduce taxes for wealthy/corporations Criminalization We have mostly covered the first three of these, so just a few comments […]
And Neoliberalism for All – Part IV
I had no idea that I would be writing five posts on neoliberalism when I started out, so I guess I’m getting this off my chest. Noam Chomsky, out great dissident I have argued while detractors would love to paint me as a conspiracy theorist, I am simply stating matters of fact. I learned to […]
And Neoliberalism for All – Part III
Deregulation Deregulation has been made into a holy crusade in this country. And it’s a darn good example of how both political parties carry out the neoliberal agenda. Because for over 35 years now all we ever hear about government is that it is wasteful and ineffective and its employees (at all levels in […]
And Neoliberalism for All – Part II
Growth at all costs Of course, capitalism is predicated in large part on growth — the more the better. But neoliberalism aimed to remove any conceivable constraint, including derailing regulations, instituting free trade agreements regardless of the effect on industry or workers, and removing external costs from the calculation. This last constraint is particularly important […]
And Neoliberalism for All – Part I
Neoliberalism is a phase of capitalism which is a phase of civilization. While neoliberalism is an abysmal development in civilization, we cannot make the mistake of thinking that doing away with it or capitalism itself would somehow correct the towering problems facing humankind. But it wouldn’t hurt. Still, nothing that comes out of civilization can […]
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