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Comment on Steubenville, rape culture, “consent” by Jim

Jim — Thu, 16 May 2013 22:26:26 +0000

Famous instructor Tim Larkin on current useless ways of trying to advise women on how to protect themselves from attempted rape:

http://www.targetfocustraining.com/selfdefense-killing-you/comment-page-1#comment-9883

Comment on Steubenville, rape culture, “consent” by Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson — Thu, 16 May 2013 16:24:11 +0000

I guess what I’m trying to say here is that this seems like a systemic corruption of a REAL cultural issue, kind of like corrupting Christianity in the service of state power.

Comment on Call for papers… kind of by m.c.

m.c. — Wed, 15 May 2013 21:56:46 +0000

The cuurent president can make a good sounding speach; but I wonder about the machinery of government in the background….

Comment on Steubenville, rape culture, “consent” by Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson — Wed, 15 May 2013 18:50:07 +0000

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/nov/25/dangerous-masculinty-everyone-risk?CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2

“The case we are making is that certain widespread masculine traits and behaviours are dangerous and costly both to individuals and society. They are amenable to purposeful change. The culture of masculinity can be, and should be, addressed as a policy issue.”

Interesting & disturbing revelations, albeit from an “administrative” standpoint. I have some real reservations about making it a policy issue; not because of the REAL need for men to change their behavior, but that it’s a cultural issue, which goes much, much, deeper than just “behavior”, which is more a surface manifestation; and rarely, if ever, gets reflected in any kind of public policies anywhere.

Administrative solutions to entrenched cultural issues are a “one size fits all” approach, which tends to drive the addressed problems, whatever they may be, underground, and, as we see more and more obviously these days, works to the advantage of the power elite. No rules for them, many rules for the rest.

I can see this coming, though, under many disguises, but the objective is still population control, docile workers & eugenics.

Comment on History of Progress by Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson — Wed, 15 May 2013 06:32:40 +0000

Interesting video on capital punishment….

http://therealnews.com/t2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=10184

“The current debate about gun control, the effectiveness of the war on drugs, much, in fact, of the big debates that take place throughout American culture have their roots in pre-Civil War debates about execution. So says author Stephen John Hartnett, who’s the author of the book Executing Democracy: Capital Punishment and the Making of America. Here’s a couple of quotes from Executing Democracy.

“In the post-revolutionary period, Robert Annan argued in favor of hangings, largely on the grounds that abolishing the gallows, quote, would introduce universal anarchy and ruin. From this perspective, the gallows stands as a defense mechanism against not only crime, but revolution more broadly. Snapping necks is an antidote to too damn much democracy.”

Comment on Witch Hunts by charles brown

charles brown — Tue, 14 May 2013 20:20:09 +0000

Romans were superlative record-keepers, so one of the earliest indicators of the popular association of malevolent witchcraft with women is an account from 331 BC, in which 170 women were executed for witchcraft. The designated witches were convicted of causing an epidemic. Epidemic was the catalyst again, from 184-180 BC, over which time the various Roman authorities put around 5,000 of these “witches” to death. Witch burning was in the Empire before Christianity came onto the scene.///// could this have been because, perhaps , women were the “doctors” of the society, and thereby wrongly blamed for failure to cure disease ?

Comment on Call for papers… kind of by Michael Anderson

Michael Anderson — Mon, 13 May 2013 18:08:57 +0000

http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/may/13/cornel-west-they-say-i-am-unamerican

“…I would rather have a white president fundamentally dedicated to eradicating poverty and enhancing the plight of working people than a black president tied to Wall Street and drones.”

Comment on Call for papers… kind of by m.c.

m.c. — Sun, 12 May 2013 20:09:21 +0000

{See Above}
“The first proper paying passenger railway–the Liverpool & Manchester Railway– opened in 1830, and from then on railway progress was phenomenal. In just 20 years, 9,700km of track was laid and by 1850 the largest railway company, London & Northwestern employed 15,000 people. Nothing on this financial scale had been seen before.”

(Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Created Modern Finance; 2011 by Jane Gleeson-White p. 141.)

Comment on Witch Hunts by m.c.

m.c. — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:47:36 +0000

One downside of being too Puritan/ too Idealistic/ too Sanctimonious/ Black & White/ Good & Evil/ in one’s Ethical View of the World is it makes it easier for those in Positions of Authority/Influence to Psychologically Manipulate the Masses. I believe this is one reason U.S. Exceptionalism = U.S. Psyche in World Affairs is stressed by some. The opposite of Tolerance. How do you run an Empire on Tolerance?

For Example: The Inquisition in Spain, or how Cotton Mather and other community leaders used FEAR during the Salem Witch Trials.

Comment on Steubenville, rape culture, “consent” by Stan

Stan — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:07:22 +0000

Thanks Robert. I live in Michigan now, just hours away from Columbus, and yes, when the frost clears, these kids strip of their shirts in the park behind my house to play basketball. They swim when it gets to 65 (brrrr).