When you search the Internet these days, one usually uses information that is only a few days old, and information that comes only from main-stream sources under corporate control, such as television, radio, newspapers.
You no longer hear about ideas other than "democracy" and the idea of "democracy" has long been severely distorted from it's origins. One should search for ideas that have been removed from today's zeitgeist.
All ideas are a threat to the status-quo. Even some words have been removed from the dialogue of most broadcast and print media, such as "radical."
Search terms need to come from alternative sources besides the mainstream media. The corporate masters have discovered a treasure trove of alternative thinking still in existence, and here in Springfield, Illinois, they tried to stamp it out.
Two Springfield Public Library branches were saved by a thread last week. The public libarary is full of dangerous ideas, and those who currently control your lives don't want you to find the truth.
The truly threatening ideas lurk within the rows of dusty books with uncracked bindings. When you go to the library. Look for books that are old, yet are not threadbare and have very few check-out stamps.
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Sunday, February 24, 2008
Sunday, June 10, 2007
The value of history.
If you want to read about Communism as a philosophical topic, read Karl Marx or some originating source. Any other source will be biased. I was at the Lincoln Library book sale and saw several books on Communism by authors who were in the service of presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, and Nixon. I had to laugh because of the obvious conflict of interest. Sources should be news stories of actual events, not opinions.
One should look at the idealized version of Communism; look at the historical outcome of the proposed ideology. From this we can see the value of history, and subtract the failures from the idea to get a judgment about human behavior in general. Did communism fail under its own weight, or was it not allowed to proceed as an experiment?
The point of history should not be reverence, but reference.
We have been taught to remember accomplishments and to revere those who made those accomplishments, and that's fine, but those accomplishments are over. When one can look at the historical record of how an accomplishment was planned and the result of its execution, we can distill an understanding of the limitations of basic human behavior.
We can understand the personal obstacles faced by historical figures and the capacity of the public of that period to understand and execute the plans and ideas.
Learning from the limitations of human behavior, we can formulate a "work-around" to create bigger and better plans and ideas. Did history class in public school give you that?
One should look at the idealized version of Communism; look at the historical outcome of the proposed ideology. From this we can see the value of history, and subtract the failures from the idea to get a judgment about human behavior in general. Did communism fail under its own weight, or was it not allowed to proceed as an experiment?
The point of history should not be reverence, but reference.
We have been taught to remember accomplishments and to revere those who made those accomplishments, and that's fine, but those accomplishments are over. When one can look at the historical record of how an accomplishment was planned and the result of its execution, we can distill an understanding of the limitations of basic human behavior.
We can understand the personal obstacles faced by historical figures and the capacity of the public of that period to understand and execute the plans and ideas.
Learning from the limitations of human behavior, we can formulate a "work-around" to create bigger and better plans and ideas. Did history class in public school give you that?
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