Archive for September, 2015
“Slaughtering” Smart Folks: “they would become rote learners of narrowly applicable, short-lived ‘knowledge,’ removing the educated class as a barrier to a totalitarian America”
Posted by sillymickel in books, Culture War Class War, education, History, Michael Adzema author on September 29, 2015
From the 70s on, in America, “This would remove the educated class as a barrier to any kind of totalitarian efforts.”:
“So liberal arts ideals were bulldozed away to make room for the career tracks leading directly into positions in management, medicine, law, and many new and highly specialized niches — usually the kind of specialization that would not occur until the postgraduate years, or after graduation directly on the job….
“Rather, if corporations were seen or heard to be needing, say, people knowledgeable in inter-managerial, mid-corporate, communicative intercourse and response, well entire four year programs were built around that. Add that kind of narrowly focused citizenry with its ephemeral knowledge and you have the kind of population that will do the bidding of the overseers and be happy for their fat paychecks — until their narrow niche of “knowledge” becomes obsolete….
“Slaughtering Smart Folks
“They will be happy for their paychecks, not knowing of any higher ideals than greed and accumulation. They will not know of their manipulation, would not know of the historical predecessors to it or the like. They would not have training in original thought but rather in training in decided upon processes and procedures and the jargon accompanying it. So they would become rote learners of narrowly applicable and short-lived “knowledge.” This would remove the educated class as a barrier to any kind of totalitarian efforts….”
– from “Culture War, Class War: Occupy Generations and the Rise and Fall of ‘Obvious Truths'”
http://www.amazon.com/Culture-War-Class-Generations-Obvious/dp/1492864021/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1429649689&sr=1-7
https://culturewarclasswar.wordpress.com/culture-war-is-class-war
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#education #highereducation #history #book #CultureWar #ClassWar #totalitarianism
in America, we neutralize our educated as a potential progressive force using money and position: “enlightenment lobotomies”
Posted by sillymickel in America, books, Culture War Class War, education, History, money, totalitarianism on September 28, 2015
“…So we can consider ourselves to be better in America. For totalitarianism — as, for example, under Stalin, Mao, or the Khmer Rouge — is usually accompanied by the slaughter of the educated. In my own lifetime, in Cambodia at least one million were killed wantonly, anyone with education was slated for death.
“Enlightenment Lobotomies
“But in America, we are better because we just seduce folks away from higher aspirations of the soul to the lower base impulses that are satisfied with what money can buy. The corporations buy their talent and their potential for high achievement and all the rewards that come with rich lives of insight and personal growth. In exchange for their moneyed positions they receive an enlightenment lobotomy.
“Should people feel dissatisfied — as we psychologists and liberal arts thinkers know they will sooner or later — others of their kind who took the medical or pharmaceutical tracks have conveniently produced the sedatives, palliatives, and opiates to keep them numb….”
– from “Culture War, Class War: Occupy Generations and the Rise and Fall of ‘Obvious Truths'”
http://www.amazon.com/Culture-War-Class-Generations-Obvious/dp/1492864021/ref=tmm_pap_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1429649689&sr=1-7
https://www.facebook.com/notes/michael-adzema/culture-war-class-war-the-rise-and-fall-of-obvious-truths-the-book/10151517042708138
#Cambodia #history #book #CultureWar #ClassWar #education #totalitarianism
“this battle has not gone away at all but is simply being ignored … and consciously *dismissed*”: Culture War, Class War, Occupy Generations
Posted by sillymickel in activism, books, Class War, Culture War, Culture War Class War, Generations, History, Michael Adzema author, occupy, occupywallstreet, Politics, sixties, Vietnam War on September 27, 2015
“People like to dismiss efforts such as mine and those of my cohorts at this time as trying to dredge up the battles of the Sixties, to relive or redo the past. This ignores the fact that this battle has not gone away at all but is simply being ignored … and consciously *dismissed*. It is as much here as 200,000 people were there in Wisconsin not long ago, though the media ignored and dismissed that in keeping with their insidious obedience. It is as much here as that we are currently surfing the tsunami of a WORLDWIDE OCCUPY movement addressing all the issues of this culture war, class war. Meanwhile the media exaggerates every Tea Party twitch involving handfuls or at the most hundreds of people and broadcasts far and wide every trivial pronouncement coming from their gang of cartoonish figures.
“So yes, we are still fighting this culture war. For not only did it never go away, not only has our side not been heard, not only has the other side pounded our positions into rubble; and shouted down, ridiculed, slandered, and misconstrued our points to their own malevolent ends, but … We ain’t won yet!”
– from “Culture War, Class War: Occupy Generations and the Rise and Fall of ‘Obvious Truths'”
http://www.amazon.com/Culture-War-Class-Generations-Obvious/dp/1492864021/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
http://sillymickel.blogspot.mx/2015/09/culture-war-is-class-war-in-disguise.html
#politics #history #book #CultureWar #ClassWar #Occupy #activism #60s
“The last educated generation”: “It had become clear to the people at the top they could better manipulate the masses without free thinkers in the way”
Posted by sillymickel in activism, Class War, Culture War, Culture War Class War, Generations, History, Michael Adzema author, occupy, occupywallstreet, Politics on September 26, 2015
“…the Vietnam War had seen increasingly larger degrees of complaint, criticism, resistance, and defiance to its pursuit from these liberal arts campuses. I was on campus and was part of it. I also saw how the campuses were purged of the liberal thinkers — professors were fired, departments of philosophy, religious studies, history, and the other liberal arts were cut back, often to be eliminated entirely. It had become clear to the people at the top that they could better manipulate the masses without free thinkers in the way. They did not want smart people noticing, that’s for sure….
“The result was that the Sixties Generation was the last educated generation. The result was that free-thinking generations would no longer be. They would not be encouraged; they would not be fostered; they would not be tolerated; they would not be *allowed*….”
– from “Culture War, Class War: Occupy Generations and the Rise and Fall of ‘Obvious Truths'”
http://www.amazon.com/Culture-War-Class-Generations-Obvious/dp/1492864021/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8
https://www.facebook.com/notes/michael-adzema/culture-war-class-war-the-rise-and-fall-of-obvious-truths-the-book/10151517042708138
#politics #history #book #CultureWar #ClassWar #Occupy #activism #VietnamWar
“Woodstock? Isn’t that the kind they use to make rifles?” … No, i don’t believe history is being taught much, anymore.
Posted by sillymickel in books, Culture War Class War, Eugene Oregon, Generations, History, Michael Adzema author on September 23, 2015
Or how about, “Kent State? Oh, i know. That’s the state where superman was born.”
R.I.P. History.
it does seem that people have forgotten history…..
I am reminded of a conversation i was overhearing on the bus in Eugene, Oregon, last week. An old-timer was talking to a young hip woman. He explained how he was one of the original “flower children,” and he was giving her inside information on how it all had gone down in those days. He was a close friend of Ken Kesey, and he had been part of the original goings on in San Francisco. What struck me, though, was when he was asking her what she knew or had heard about it…. He asked, “Have you heard about Woodstock?”
Answer: “No”
His response detailing it as the coming together of a million people, peacefully, the largest such gathering in history, … and so on … was depressing to hear. … In that it should even have to be done….
No, i don’t suppose history is being taught very well in the schools … not since 1971 … because to know history would embolden people to resist present day propaganda meant to control them.
see “Culture War, Class War: Occupy Generations and the Rise and Fall of ‘Obvious Truths'”
and/or
#history #KentState #propaganda #totalitarianism #CultureWar #ClassWar #generations
“We call it “growing up” to be impassionate, to be morosely, meekly obedient: Educators exhort us to deny emotion; Doctors prescribe pills; therapists counsel us to be less alive
Posted by sillymickel in adulthood, books, child-rearing, consciousness, Experience Is Divinity, Funny God, Michael Adzema author, parenting, Reality, spirituality on September 22, 2015
“We call it “growing up” to be more insensitive, less spontaneous … to be impassionate, and morosely and meekly obedient. Our educators exhort us to deny emotions; our doctors provide pills to suppress them; and our therapists counsel their clients, helping them to be less alive. Like suburbanites paving over everything with asphalt and with manicured lawns in which any weed has been assassinated out of existence, we are terrified of anything unpredictable in the Divine, anything emotional. We want to control Divinity.
“Yet, this kind of going to the opposite extreme of emotion … worshiping nothingness, emotionlessness … does not give us a picture of Reality. It only gives us a picture of a defense against what happened to us. The problem is that God is *more*, not *less* of what is Real. Divinity is not Reality devoid of the Real, of real experience. But that is what, out of fear, we have come to wish for….”
– from “Funny God: The Tao of Funny God and the Mind’s True Liberation”
#spirituality #consciousness #experience #growingup #divinity #follow #tsu #Reality #spirit #emotion
We’d rather cuddle with a statue: “Emotions having become soured in us … we strive to empty ourselves of them. Our cultures, similarly, glorify the unaffected personality….”
Posted by sillymickel in books, consciousness, Culture, Experience Is Divinity, Funny God, God, Michael Adzema author, Patriarchal culture, personality, spirituality on September 21, 2015
“Why We Think Less Is More: There is a good reason why we make the mistake of confusing unfeelingness and a vapid personality and life experience with a greater and more Divine one. We are so traumatized by things that have been done to us in early life … maybe we had an angry daddy, a cruel mommy … that we get comfort only in imagining a Divine with no emotional qualities. We would rather cuddle with a statue, cozy up to a piece of granite, or be enamored of an empty concept or an ambiguous image or symbol than expose ourselves to what we feel to be the only alternative. That is, that Divinity might come crashing down on us like a thunderbolt … something perhaps our parents did. Because life was threatening to us, once, we seek to create a Divinity, thus, a Reality, that will not be, cannot be.
“Emotions having become soured in us, in our religious and spiritual pursuits we strive to empty ourselves of them. Our cultures, similarly, glorify the unaffected personality; and we wish to put ourselves above our feelings and to train our children out of their emotions….”
– from “Funny God: The Tao of Funny God and the Mind’s True Liberation”
http://www.amazon.com/Funny-God-Minds-Liberation-Return/dp/1499504845/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1442668372&sr=1-1&keywords=michael+adzema
https://www.facebook.com/notes/michael-adzema/wed-rather-cuddle-with-a-statue-we-remove-the-essence-of-divinity-from-our-ideas/10152677583538138?pnref=lhc
#spirituality #consciousness #experience #God #divinity #follow #tsu #personality #spirit #emotion
Schizoid experience and God: “Being closer to God is having more participation in, more inclusion of the Experience of Reality”
Posted by sillymickel in books, consciousness, Experience Is Divinity, Funny God, Michael Adzema author, psychology, spirituality, transpersonal psychology on September 20, 2015
“Being closer to God is having more participation in, more inclusion of the Experience of Reality.
“This does not mean that God is not of the mind at all, is not “mental.” Feelings and experiences include the mental. For deep and profound understandings and overstandings of Reality are experiences also.
“There is the focusing on the map of Reality that distracts one from actual experience of Reality, true. There is also the retreat into abstraction in avoidance of and in fear of feelings and emotions, with their peripheries of darkness and pain … also true.
“Experience that is divided and categorized this way, and with one category elevated, others repressed, is unreal, is schizoid…”
– from “Funny God: The Tao of Funny God and the Mind’s True Liberation” http://www.amazon.com/Funny-God-Minds-Liberation-Return/dp/1499504845/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1442433185&sr=1-1&keywords=michael+adzema
https://www.facebook.com/notes/10152683728223138
#spirituality #consciousness #experience #God #divinity #follow #tsu #retreat #abstraction #shizoid
We mistakenly think repressing our passions is holy: “Churches call them ‘sinful’; we deem them ‘inappropriate’ in middle class homes.”
Posted by sillymickel in books, consciousness, Experience Is Divinity, Funny God, God, Michael Adzema author, spirituality on September 19, 2015
“God is not angry, vengeful, or any negative emotions, but since, having experienced mostly that and not being able to imagine truly wonderful positive emotions, we think we can approach the Divine by denying emotions as well. We wish to repress passion, anger, and tears out of existence. Churches call them “sinful”; we deem them “inappropriate” in middle class homes. We create stories where Spock-like figures are said to be mystical, religious, holy, when actually it is Frodo who is. Abbie Hoffman was more mystical, in this sense, than any Pat Robertson or Billy Graham.”
– from “Funny God: The Tao of Funny God and the Mind’s True Liberation”
http://www.amazon.com/Funny-God-Minds-Liberation-Return/dp/1499504845/ref=sr_1_1_twi_pap_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1442301038&sr=1-1&keywords=michael+adzema
https://www.facebook.com/notes/10152683728223138
#spirituality #consciousness #passion #God #repression #follow #tsu #Spock #AbbieHoffman #anger
“with self-denial, we kill the God in us, thinking we are becoming more God-full that way: God includes the sensual, is “interesting”
Posted by sillymickel in books, consciousness, Experience Is Divinity, Funny God, God, Michael Adzema author, spirituality on September 18, 2015
“Going outside of our pain, outside of the confines of thought created by our fears, we see that God, Life, Reality truly *is* glorious. And that includes being interesting. Divinity is not sensual because it is lacking in sensuality but because it is beyond sensuality, something greater than the experience of mere perception of things, which we call sensing things. Yet we try to approach It by denying our senses, not expanding them. Thus we kill the God in us, thinking we are becoming more God-full that way.”
– from “Funny God: The Tao of Funny God and the Mind’s True Liberation”
https://www.facebook.com/notes/10152683728223138
#spirituality #consciousness #divinity #God #senses #follow #tsu #sensual #self-denial #expansion
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