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13 Reasons In Reality
13 Reasons In Reality I just finished watching Season 3 of 13 Reasons. It reminded me of people I knew in High School once upon a time. I will not name names, but I do think it is an important … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, education, Event, Feminism, Flashback, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV
Tagged #MeToo, 12 year old, 13 Reasons, 16 year old, 17 year old, accuse, accutation, America, Anger, Assault, bestiality, bombshell, Boyfriends, Bryce, choice, Clay, College, consensual, counseling, Date, denial, Depression, Drinking, Drugs, flowers, forced himself on her, Friends, Girlfriends, Hannah, High School, Hospitalization, Jealousy, Jessica, Justin, lies, lucky, Mad, Marriage, Midwestern Town, no choice, not prosecuted, not reported, outburst, police report, Pregnancy, preventable, Private, Prom, prosecuted, Public, punishable, Rage, Rape Culture, Reality, red flags, Rejection, report, reports, Repression, reputation, rumblings, rumors, Secrets, Sex, Signs, suicidal, suppression, Temper, Trauma, Truth, Violence, Virginity
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Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America
Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America By Alissa Quart, 2018 In the introduction to her book Quart overviews the reasons why Families Can’t Afford America any longer. Student Loans and Medical Debt are a huge issue for Generation X … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Politics/Economics
Tagged 1% Television, 24 Hour Day Care, 24 Hour Day Care Needed, Adjunct Professors, Alexa, America, American, backlash, Benefits, Billions, bills, Bosses, Captialism, Child Care, College, Colleges, Commune, Computers, Consumerism, Contract Work, Crime, Day Care, descrimination, Do What You Love, Downtown Abbey, Economy, education, Employment, English, Feminism, FMLA, Food Stamps, Goodwill, Hand To Mouth, Headstart, History, Huge Income Gap, Huge Wage Gap, Humanities, inflation, Irregular Hours, ITT, Keeping Up with the Jones's, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, Law, Lawyers, Lie, Long Term Careers, Low-Income, MA, Mad Men, Manipulate, Maternity Leave, Maternity Wall, Medicaid, MIddle Class, minimum wage, Mortage, Nanny's Strugle, No Love or No Money, Ozark, Paternity Leave, PhD, Politics, Poor, Pre-K, Precariat, Precarity, Pregnancy, Private Program, Private School, Proletariat, Public, Raising Brooklyn, Ray Bradbury, Real House Wives, Reality TV, Rent, Rich, Robots, Roommates, Roseanne, Science, Second Act Industry Myth, Shift Work, Short Term Jobs, Siri, Social Class, Squeezed, Student Loan Debt, take advantage, Technology, The Middle, The Outsourced Self, The Secret Life of Inequality, The Wire, There Will Come Soft Rains, Trade Schools, Trump University, Uber, Uber Dads, Union, Upstairs Downstairs, We Believe the Children, Wealthy, Why Our Families Can Afford America, Without Predictablity, Working Class, World, worry
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Think On These Things
Think on These Things By Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1964 Self-Knowledge comes when you observe yourself in a relationship with your situation, you teachers are all those around you. It comes when you observe the manner of another, his gestures, the way … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1964, America, Anger, beauty, Capitalist, caste, Children, Class, Communist, creativity, Culture, don'ts, dos, education, Europe, Everything, Extraordinary, Family, Feel, Feelings, Freely, Hindu, India, Inquiry, Intellegence, Jiddu Krisnamurti, Learning, Life, Love, Meditate, mindful, Open, Open Mind, Ordinary, Peace, Ponder, Poor, Prisoner, Relationships, revolt, Rich, Self-Knowledge, Socialist, society, Spirit, survival, Teacher, Think, Think on These Things, Torn, Truth, War, watchful, World
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The Age of American Unreason
The Age of American Unreason By Susan Jacoby, 2009 Jacoby writes about anti-intellectualism in America. She was inspired by the book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter, which was published in 1963. Jacoby points out that more than half … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, History, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Pedagogy, Politics/Economics, Religion, Science/Philosophy
Tagged 1800s, 1960s, Alan Bloom, America, Ann Coulter, Anti-Intellectual, Benjamin Franklin, Bible, Book of the Month Club, Bush, Campus Crusades, Cheap Books, Christianity, Clinton, College, Common Sense, Communisim, Communist, Cristina Hoff Summer, Culture, Debate, Democrat, Don Imus, Dumbed Down, English Language, Founding Fathers, Government, Guilded Age, High Brow, Internet, Junk Media, Junk Science, Learning, Lectures, Left Wing, liberal, Literacy, Low Brow, Middle Brow, Nixon, Patriotic, Pop Culture, President, Protests, Publishers, Reason, Regan, Republican, Richard Dawkins, Richard Hofstadter, right wing, Russia, Science Versus Religion, Seperation of Church and State, Socialism, Socialist, Soviet Union, Television, The Closing of the American Mind, The Constitution, The Rights of Man, The Supreme Court, Thomas Paine, United States, Unpatriotic, Unreason, Vietnam War, Working Class
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Service
November 15, 2016 Service “Service” is the name of this week’s The Walking Dead episode. I thought that the power struggle between Negan and Rick was a good subtext for the election this year and the subsequent fallout. Tuesday night … Continue reading
Posted in Movies/TV, Politics/Economics
Tagged Abraham, America, Big Bad Wolf, Big Picture, bigoted, Brutal, Canada, Carl, Conflict, conservative, Convergence, Discontent, Educated, Election, Fight, Glen, Government of Wolves, hope, idiot, Intolerent, liberal, Losses, loud mouthed, Lucille, Maggie, Michonne, Negan, Obama, Paralyzed, Peace, Peaceful, Polarization, Poor, Power, President, Protect, Protests, Psychological Warfare, Racism, Racist, Rick, Service, Sexism, Sexist, Subtext, The Hilltop, The Kingdom, The Saviors, The Walking Dead, Tolerance, Tolerant, Torture, Trump, Tyrant, Undermine, Uneducated
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The Americans
April 17, 2014 Spy Vs Spy Spy vs Spy is a comic strip in Mad Magazine, but it seemed appropriate this week. I’ve been watching The Americans. The Americans is an FX show that began May of 2013. It stars … Continue reading
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Tagged 1853, 1856, 1991, 1999, 2000, 2010, 2014, Agression, Alias, America, Annex, Big Pharmicuticals, Brothers and Sisters, Capitalism, Car Insurance, CIA, Communism, Concessions International, Crimea, Crimean War, Demonstrations, Early 90s, Entitlement, Felicity, FX, Glasnost, Google, Greed, Greg, Health Care, Health Insurance, Heritage, History, J.J. Abrams, Joe Weisburg, Keri Russell, KGB, Mad Magazine, Mathew Ryes, Medicaid, Medical Industries, Memory, Obama, Perestroika, Putin, Religion, Russian, Salmon Bagel, Self-Defense, Socialism, Soviet Union, Spies, Spy Vs Spy, The Americans, USSR, Winter Olympics, Yetsin
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Origins of Oz
Origins of Oz As a child I loved reading about the land of Oz. Although unique in that it was the first truly American Fairy Tale, there appears to be more to it. I took an interest in New Age … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Lost, Movies/TV
Tagged America, Assyrian Exile, Atlantic, Atlantis, Australia, Ben Linus, California, Continent, Cyclone, Desert, Dorothy and the Wizard in Oz, Edgar Cayce, electromagnetic, Ev, Fairy Land, Heba, Hebrews, Henry Gale, Incas, India, Island, James Churchill, L Frank Baum, Lemuria, Lost, Madagascar, Madam Blatskvy, Magic, Mayans, Mexico, Mound Builders, Mu, New Mexico, Og, Oz, Ozma of Oz, Pacific, Phillip Sclater, San Fransisco, The Lost Tribes of Israel, The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Theosophy, Tornado
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To Repress Or Not To Repress That Is The Question
January 22, 2007 Is repression necessary for a functioning society? Does the individual have to conform in order to be healthy or is conforming merely the appearance of health? Which is more important—the subjective inner truth or the objective truth … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/Pop Culture, Psychology
Tagged America, Arno Grun, balance, Christina Hoff Sommers, counterfactuals, Criminals, Depression, Germany, hypocrisy, inner truth, Memories, One Nation Under Therapy, past, psychic death, psychopaths, PTSD, Punishment, Rehabilitation, Repression, Sally Satel, Schizophrenia, Schools, self-esteem, self-hatred, society, The Insanity of Normality, therapism, Therapy, Trauma
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