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21st CENTURY LITERACY
“The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn."
— Alvin Toffle
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20223 min read
THE SLEEP OF REASON PRODUCES MONSTER
We live in dangerous times. Global corporatism, war, violence, racism, and arms race, militarism, terrorism, climate change, the threat...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20223 min read
A NEW KIND OF INFANTILISM & CULTURE OF IGNORANCE
In the United States, the extreme right in both political parties no longer needs the comfort of a counterfeit ideology in which appeals...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20223 min read
THINKING BECOMES A STUPID CRIME
America needs to own its violent history so as to understand and transform the ways our subjectivities have been formed through the...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20222 min read
SELF-DESTRUCTIVE WHITE ANXIETY, BIGOTRY, AND INTOLERANCE
For Hannah Arendt the inability to think, to be thoughtful, and to assume responsibility for one’s actions not only spoke to a...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20222 min read
OUR GROWING FONDNESS FOR IGNORANCE
In these threatening times, illiteracy is a political tool designed primarily to wage war on language, meaning, thinking, and the...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20222 min read
CATEGORIES OF THOUGHT AND STANDARDS OF JUDGMENT
There is a discourse in which images of an intimidating master and commander come to dominate in what Hannah Arendt once called “the ruin...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20222 min read
TRUMP’S ENDEARING LOVE FOR THE POORLY EDUCATED
Trump now personifies a party that makes intolerance a priority while viewing evidence-based arguments with open disdain. This is the...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20221 min read
THE DECLINE OF CIVIC LITERACY
Highly popular celebrity culture now works in tandem with neoliberal values to represent extreme forms of solipsism and a cultivated...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20222 min read
PLUTOCRACY: MONSTERS WITHOUT CONSCIENCE
Plutocracy is the first documentary to comprehensively examine early American history through the lens of class. A multi-part series by...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20221 min read
OBAMA, YOU'RE NO DR. MLK JR.!!!
Films For Action's Review: Lifting the Veil is a significant achievement - offering a definitive critique of the Obama administration...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20221 min read
CULTIVATING POPULAR IGNORANCE
While many of us are fully familiar with the neoliberal policies that have redistributed wealth upward, ripped away any real safety net...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20221 min read
'The Star-Spangled Banner' REALLY??
As Noam Chomsky, Richard Hofstadter, and Susan Jacoby have made clear, ignorance is not simply about the absence of knowledge, it is a...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20221 min read
U.S. CITIZENS' IGNORANCE OF HISTORY
Americans believe they are unbound by history. Historian Christopher Lasch saw this as a reflection of their "narcissism." It is also,...
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dgreenecpa1
Nov 18, 20221 min read
GENUINE SOCIAL LIBERATION
"Paulo Freire believed that pedagogy can be a form of intervention in the service of genuine social liberation. As such, he also believed...
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