Enlightened Immigration Policy

"The one thing we could do for a country like Mexico, for example, is to stop every illegal immigrant at the border, give him a good rifle and a case of ammunition, and send him home. Let the Mexicans solve their customary problems in their customary way."

Prostitution

"Science in our time is the whore of industry and the slut of war."

SNAFU

"When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about."

Anarchy

"I dislike the life of institutions and organizations, and am slow to trust people who willingly live such a life."

As It Should Be

"He was vastly more inclined to learn than to be taught."

Too Much To Ask?

"Freedom to him,was being free of being bossed and of being a boss."

Relativity

If all the politicians died tomorrow, it would be a blip. If all the scientists and engineers died, it would be an apocalypse. If all the poets died, so would god.

  mce

Who, Where, What

"My subject is my place in the world, and I live in my place. Novelty is a new kind of loneliness."

Fundamentalist Consumerism

"Buying material possessions to secure respect and position in the world is delusional: abundance teaches dissatisfaction."

NRA Racist Mission

What exactly is the function of the NRA? Interesting question. Supposedly it is to protect the Second Amendment. Not so. Its real function is to promote fear. Fear of "the others." That means anyone different, especially people of color. This is a great marketing ploy for the gun industry. Create an endless supply of weapons; those weapons will be bought by scared white people, but will also fall into the hands of criminals (some people of color), which will then encourage more scared white people to buy guns for "home defense," and so on ad nauseam.

The NRA uses the ubiquitous racism of American society to hustle guns to scared white suburbanites and racist militias.

So, essentially the NRA supports White Supremacy and white supremacists love and support the NRA. Think about it. It would be interesting to know what percentage of the NRA's membership is white supremacist and skin head, but of course we never will.

New Pope: Same Snake, New Skin

The election of Pope Francis to head the most obsolescent, bloody, repressive institution in human history is all sound and fury, signifying nothing. While individual Catholics may be fine people, the church itself is an instrument of repressive conservatism. In particular, its teachings on birth control lead to nothing short of ecological disaster. There are far too many people on earth and the Catholic hierarchy encourages more and more. That alone, sex scandals, etc. aside, makes the church dangerous and irrelevant. It is a dinosaur with a voracious appetite for power. Until it changes its stance on birth control, it remains an evil force in the world.

Very Possible Visual

"Keep you doped with religion, sex and TV
and you think you're so clever and classless and free
but you're still fucking peasants as far as I can see..."
   John Lennon

Chinese Swine Holocaust Continues

The number of dead swine floating in a Chinese river has now exceeded 6000. No one knows why or how the swine ended up there. Talk about a pig in a poke! Chinese officials are assuring locals that the 6000 dead pigs floating in their drinking water poses no health threat. That's government in action. Speculation is rife that this may be a mass suicide as the quality of life for pigs in China is extremely bad, although not as bad as that of peasants. Makes you wonder what's next? Stay tuned.

   mce

Mass Swine Suicide in China

"BEIJING — More than 2,800 dead pigs have been found in a major river that flows through Shanghai, igniting fears among city residents of contaminated tap water, according to state news media reports on Monday."

Clearly the Chinese can't tell the difference between pigs and lemmings. If I had to live in the Chinese hive, I'd commit suicide too.

MCE

Oh, Brave New World!

Recent ‘Technology in Education’ Articles You May Have Missed

January 29, 2013, 11:18 am

By Kerry Soper

1. “Department chair supports ‘digital humanities’ without knowing exactly what it is”
2. “Hiring committee uses Facebook rather than MLA interviews to vet tenure-track job candidates”
3. “Widely published senior colleague still unable to detect Nigerian e-mail scams without help of college IT guy”
4. “Middle-aged history professor gets Twitter account; makes one tweet before losing login information”
5. “Associate professor diagnosed with mild whiplash after repeatedly checking email during student-consultation hours”
6. “Jaded instructor now suspiciously filters his own essays through plagiarism-detecting software”
7. “Students momentarily distracted by professor’s lecture while managing their Facebook accounts”
8. “Full professor reprimanded a third time by Wikipedia administrators for attempting to create an entry on himself”
9.“Depressed assistant English professor neglects grading to check repeatedly the number of ‘likes’ on her Instagram account”
10. “With help from nephew, art-history professor breaks international copyright law to download UK premier of Downton Abbey”

Resist The Empire

"The most revolutionary thing anyone can do is follow one's heart."
      Derrick Jensen - Walking On Water: Reading, Writing and Revolution

Education v.1

"The most important piece of technology in any classroom is the second hand of the clock. The purpose is to teach millions of students the identical prayer: Please God, make it move faster."
  Derrick Jensen

Keep this in mind the next time you show a Powerpoint presentation.

   mce

Talking About Revolution

Currently, 60% of Spaniards under 25 are unemployed. This is a bomb waiting to go off.

High unemployment in Weimer was a huge cause of Hitler's ascendency.

Spain has a violent history of both Anarchy and Fascism. Youth unemployment at this level will feed all kinds of extremism. Kids will not long accept the fact that they have no future.

Throw in Basque and Catalan separatist movements and it only looks worse.

Look for bad things to happen in Spain soon.

It will only take a spark.

mce

What Is Anarchism?

I am often asked this question when I refer to myself as an anarchist. As most Americans are among the most politically and economically illiterate folks on earth, it is difficult to answer. Still it is important to try. Capitalism is currently very weak, as a result of rampant, unchecked globalization. Formerly, owners and corporations pulled the strings, but now even they are at the the mercy of the usurers. Cracks are forming everywhere within the capitalist system, largely as a result of its inability to deliver the basics (e.g. a living wage) to all but a minority of people. This is the so called "New Normal." Thus, this is a time to look for alternatives. Anarchism is one such alternative.

Below is a pamphlet in PDF form which should open on most computers that does a good job of explicating the basics of anarchism. I don't agree with all of it, but with most.

Warning: If you are close-minded, unimaginative or just plain too stupid to follow an argument, you will want to skip this.