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Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

Posted on August 14, 2020 by carilynn27

Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is the new Hunger Games book by Suzanne Collins. It is a prequel to the original trilogy and follows the rise of President Coriolanus Snow. It is no accident … Continue reading →

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Posted in Event, Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV, Poetry, Politics/Economics, Science/Philosophy | Tagged Army, Corilanus Snow, Dr. Gaul, Enlightenment Philosophy, Jabberjays, Jean Jacque Rousseau, John Locke, Leadership, Lucy Gray, Lucy Grey, Masks, Mentors, Military Service, Mockingjays, Names Important, Noble Savage, Pandemic, Panem, Peacekeepers, Politics, Public, Romanticism, Romantics, Rome, Sejanus Plinth, Shakespeare, Subtext, Suzanne Collins, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, The Hunger Games, Thomas Hobbes, William Wadworth | Leave a comment

Private Government

Posted on June 16, 2019 by carilynn27

Private Government: How Employers Rule Over Our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk About It) By Elizabeth Anderson, 2017 Elizabeth Anderson gave a series of Tanner Lectures at Princeton University in 2014 on Political Philosophy. During these lectures she discussed … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, Politics/Economics | Tagged 1800s, 2014, 2017, Abraham Lincoln, Abuse, Adam Smith, Arbitrary Rules, Asylums, Back by Sanctions, Bill of Rights, Board of Directors, CEO, Chaos, Checks and Balances, Children, Churches, Communism, Corporations, Corruption, Democrats, Dictatorships, Difficulty Obtaining Child Care, Disrespect, Dress Code, Egalitarian, Elizabeth Anderson, Employees, Employers, Exclusive Rights, Exile, Facebook, Factories, Firing, Fraternizing, Fraud, Free Market, gulf between Employers and Employees, Harassment, Hospitals, How Employers Rule Over Our Lives (And Why We Don’t Talk About It), Immigration, Individual Liberties, industry, Karl Marx, Libertarian, Lords, Management, Master's, Men, Modern Work Place, Monarchy, Monopolies, Monopoly, Oligarchy, Orphanages, OSHA, Patriarchy, Political Science, Politics, Poor Houses, Power, Princeton University, Private Government, Quitting, Republicans, Respect, Self-Employed, Slavery, Social Insurance, Tanner Lectures, Thomas Paine, Unequal Power Structure, Unions, Unpaid Domestic Labor, Unpredictable Scheduling, Unregulated Commons, US Government, Wage Earners, Wage Labor, Women | Leave a comment

Squeezed: Why Our Families Can’t Afford America

Posted on August 4, 2018 by carilynn27

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 →

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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 | Leave a comment

Age of Anger

Posted on March 28, 2018 by carilynn27

The Age of Anger: A History of the Present Pankaj Mishra, 2017 Age of Anger: A History of the Present by Mishra accounts for the resurgence of reactionary and right-wing political movements in the late 2010s. He argues that nationalist, … Continue reading →

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Posted in Culture, Event, Politics/Economics, Psychology | Tagged 1970s, 1990s, Afganistan, Age 15-30, Alienation, Anarchism, Anger, Bakunin, Billionaires, Bitter, Brexit, Callous, chauvinist, Checnya, Cultural, Cultural Romanticism, Democracy, Demonize, Disenfranchised, Displacements, Dostoevsky, Elite, Enemies, Ethnic, Fatherland, Foreigners, Forgotten Conjunctures, Freedom, Global Capitalism, globalizaiton, hate mongering, Hispanic, History's Winners, Immigrants, Individualism, Industrial Society, isolationist, Jews, Kulture, Liberty, Marshal McLuhan, Mexicans, Mididle Class, Modern, Muslims, N, nationalist, Nazi Germany, Nietzche, Nihilistic, normalization, Notes From The Underground, Otherness, Outdsider, Pankaj Mishra, Patriotism, Political Romanticism, Politics, Radio, Rage, Religious, Revolution, Rhetoric, Rouseau, Russia, Rwanda, secularism, Self-Empowerment, Socialist, South America, Steve Jobs, Superman, Survival of the Fittest, Television, The Good Barbarian, The Wall, Timmothy McVeigh, Trump, Uber, Uprooted, Upward Mobilty, Venal, Violence, Volk, War, Weed Out The Weak, White Males | Leave a comment

Shaw and the Play of Ideas

Posted on October 14, 2014 by carilynn27

Shaw And The Play of Ideas By Robert F Whitman, 1977 Shaw’s hostility to Capitalism as the source of most of civilized man’s economic, social and moral ills, is both well known and persuasive throughout his writing….And war in general … Continue reading →

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Posted in Literary Criticism, Literature/Pop Culture, Politics/Economics, Religion | Tagged 1977, Boredom, Burden on Society, Capitalist, Capitalists, Communication, community, Creative Evolution, Don Juan, Drama, Duty, Evil, Evolution, Fabian Soceity, GBS, George Bernard Shaw, God, Government, Heavne, Hell, hope, Hopeless, Humankind, Justice, Life-Force, Logic, Logical Process, Morality, Paradox, Politics, Poor, Public Forum, Reality, Reason, Religion, Rich, Robert F Whitman, Self-Delusion, Self-Indulgence, Shavian, Shaw, Shaw and The Play of Ideas, Sincere, Socialism, Thought, Unvierse | Leave a comment

The War of the Roses and The Game of Thrones

Posted on August 27, 2013 by carilynn27

The War of the Roses and Game of Thrones There have been a number of references to the fact that George RR Martin drew inspiration from the historical War of the Roses, but nothing in great detail about what … Continue reading →

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Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture, Movies/TV | Tagged A Song of Fire and Ice, Arya Stark, Baratheon, Beheaded, Bran Stark, Caitlyn Stark, Cersi Lannister, Dany, Dragons, Eddark Stark, Edmond Tudor, Edmund, Edward, Elizabeth of York, Elizabeth Woodville, England, Game of Thrones, Gender Roles, Gendry, George RR Martin, Henry V, Henry VI, Henry VII, Ireland, Iron Lands, Jamie Lannister, Jasper, Katherine Huntley, Lancaster, Maragret, Margery Tyrell, Marriage, North, Owen Tudor, Perkin Warbeck, Phillipa Gregory, Politics, Religion, Richard III, Rickard Stark, Rob Stark, Sansa Stark, Scotland, Sexuality, Shakespeare, Sir Thomas and Sir William Stanley, South, Stanos, The Boy, The Tower, The Wall, The War of the roses, The White Princess, Theon Greyjoy, Tudor, Tyrion Lannister, Tywinn, Usurper, Westeros, white walkers, Wildlings, Witchcraft, Witches, York, zombies | 4 Comments

Dreaming The Dark

Posted on June 21, 2013 by carilynn27

Dreaming The Dark Dreaming The Dark: Magic, Sex and Politics by Starhawk came out in 1982. I didn’t read it until the reprint came out in 1997. Starhawk wrote the book when Regan was elected and we were on the … Continue reading →

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Posted in Feminism, Politics/Economics, Wicca | Tagged 1982, 1997, Agressor, Angels, Angery, Astarte, Birth, Chruch, companion, Corporations, Dance, Dance Naked, darkness, Death, deeper selves, Demons, Dream, Dreaming the Dark, Estranged Culture, Fear, Gay and Lesbian Liberation, Goddess, Groups, guardians of the threshold, Healing, Hecates, Inana, Isis, Kore, Laptop, Life, lover, Magic, Marriage, Mascohists, Masks, Men, Mirroring, no more horror stories, no more victims, Patriarchal, Persephone, Politics, Power, Rebirth, Relationships, Russia, Sadists, self-esteem, set limits and boundaries, Sex, Shadow, Starhawk, Torture, transform, twin, Typewriter, value, Violence, War, Women | Leave a comment

Women in Literature and Society

Posted on January 16, 2012 by carilynn27

December 7, 2011 Women Women’s Studies and Women’s History takes center stage this week, mostly in my reading, but also in my life. First, I read The Queen of Water by Laura Rasua and Maria Virginia Farinango. It is the … Continue reading →

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Posted in History, Literature/Pop Culture | Tagged Cari Lynn Vaughn, Childcare, China, Ecuador, England, Feminsim, Friendship, History, Jacquetta Bedford-Woodville, Lady of the Rivers, Laura Resau, Lisa See, Maria Virginia Farinango, Peru, Philippa Gregory, Politics, Sexism, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, Stay at Home Mom, The Queen of Water, Women, Working Mom | Leave a comment

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