This is from the 30s. What’s that old saying about not learning from history?

This is from the 30s. What’s that old saying about not learning from history?

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maxistentialist: Barrett

maxistentialist:

Barrett

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Worth another, slow read: @Xeni's Q&A with #OWS Bat Signal Team

Mark Read on Boing Boing:

“It’s the beginning of the beginning.” I loved that one. So frequently, things happen in the world that make it feel like we’re at the beginning of the end. But—”the beginning of the beginning,” what a radically optimistic statement that is.

The scale of the environmental and economic crisis we are facing, it’s extraordinary. This movement is a response to that crisis. Our leaders aren’t responding to any of that in a way that is commensurate to the crises we face. And that one sign has always spoken to me. We have to throw off our despair about the future world we might be facing, because if we come together as people and humanity, we can change it. And what Occupy Wall Street makes me feel is that for the first time in a long time that might be possible.

That means a lot to me. This is choosing hope over despair. This is actively and resolutely making that choice. It’s not going to be easy. It’s not going to be over in two months. It’s not going to be just the result of conversation.

That’s pretty much what the schools are like, I think: they reward discipline and obedience, and they punish independence of mind. If you happen to be a little innovative, or maybe you forgot to come to school one day because you were reading a book or something, that’s a tragedy, that’s a crime - because you’re not supposed to think, you’re supposed to obey, and just proceed through the material in whatever way they require.

Hahaha, I think I’ll print out this Noam Chomsky quote and staple it to my first-grader’s next Behavior Report. (You know, because he gets bored sitting there after the work is done, and wants to draw or talk or hear a story.) — Via cultureofresistance.

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Matt Langer: Here's a thought!

langer:

It’s novel, I know, but seriously: If you, in your professional capacity as a reporter, run a story based on what “policemen say,” when what “policemen say” has been clearly and thoroughly contradicted beyond any and all reasonable doubt by who knows how many thousands of firsthand…

Congressional Support Grows For Bill To Shut Down Any Website

Here’s a post I just typed up for Wonkette, about the delightful new “Great Firewall” law the “Bipartisan Congress” is cooking up for Obama to sign. And, I guess, this will be all blocked out by Tumblr for the CENSORED stunt, which is good?

Long ago I lived in a moldy Victorian in the Lower Haight with five gentlemen.

Here is Tony Pierce writing about it.