Fern, I think you may have misunderstood me. What I am suggesting does not replace voting rights or the prosecution of these criminals. And it is not state or region specific as far as education or any other issue is concerned. I suspect that we face massive disruption of various sorts throughout the nation.
Fern, I think you may have misunderstood me. What I am suggesting does not replace voting rights or the prosecution of these criminals. And it is not state or region specific as far as education or any other issue is concerned. I suspect that we face massive disruption of various sorts throughout the nation.
What I believe is that we must, in parallel with the efforts to stem the ruinous political tide, is to establish fresh initiatives in terms of recreating the human infrastructure that is under assault from the same forces that seek to destroy our political and other institutions. Most of these attacks are national in character and, whereas you may be able to identify “hot spots” politically, much of the danger in other areas is shared, or will soon be shared, by all of us.
It is critical that we construct new entities that can repel the sorts of propaganda that has been used over the past several decades. Truth and reality must be reestablished is such a manner that the “slings and arrows” of the outrageous are turned back.
We are, for the most part, alert and aware of the legislative felonies that are being committed on an almost daily basis. Treason and traitors can be easily identified. What is also an existential wildfire is the undermining of our educators, scientists, experts in every field, by the duplicitous felons who turn our language into tools and weapons to dismantle our civilization.
Now is the time to rush to the aid of those who are dedicated to help our children and youth to understand their world and to discover the ways and means to navigate it. Reality has been targeted by the malicious fear mongers and spreaders of hate. But we can erect the “ramparts” of reality to turn back these nether forces.
If I understand your comment, Bill, you are seeking ways, which you have termed 'entities', to address the lies/propaganda/conspiracies/destabilizing factors infecting our society. Two of the people I believe to be in the forefront of understanding the tyrannical forces at large in our country are Timothy Snyder and Jonathan Haidt. You may be interested in their work.
Timothy David Snyder is an American author and historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. (Wikipedia) His newsletter on substack is called, 'Thinking about... ' List of his books are below.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017)
Bloodlands (2010)
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (2015)
Jonathan David Haidt is an American social psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University Stern School of Business, and author. His main areas of study are the psychology of morality and moral emotions. (Wikipedia) List of his book is below.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
2012
The Happiness Hypothesis
2006
The Coddling of the American Mind
2018
Why Do They Vote That Way? From The Righteous Mind
2018
Can't We All Disagree More Constructively? From The Righteous Mind
2016 (Links to some of articles by and about Haidt are below)
Fern, I think you may have misunderstood me. What I am suggesting does not replace voting rights or the prosecution of these criminals. And it is not state or region specific as far as education or any other issue is concerned. I suspect that we face massive disruption of various sorts throughout the nation.
What I believe is that we must, in parallel with the efforts to stem the ruinous political tide, is to establish fresh initiatives in terms of recreating the human infrastructure that is under assault from the same forces that seek to destroy our political and other institutions. Most of these attacks are national in character and, whereas you may be able to identify “hot spots” politically, much of the danger in other areas is shared, or will soon be shared, by all of us.
It is critical that we construct new entities that can repel the sorts of propaganda that has been used over the past several decades. Truth and reality must be reestablished is such a manner that the “slings and arrows” of the outrageous are turned back.
We are, for the most part, alert and aware of the legislative felonies that are being committed on an almost daily basis. Treason and traitors can be easily identified. What is also an existential wildfire is the undermining of our educators, scientists, experts in every field, by the duplicitous felons who turn our language into tools and weapons to dismantle our civilization.
Now is the time to rush to the aid of those who are dedicated to help our children and youth to understand their world and to discover the ways and means to navigate it. Reality has been targeted by the malicious fear mongers and spreaders of hate. But we can erect the “ramparts” of reality to turn back these nether forces.
If I understand your comment, Bill, you are seeking ways, which you have termed 'entities', to address the lies/propaganda/conspiracies/destabilizing factors infecting our society. Two of the people I believe to be in the forefront of understanding the tyrannical forces at large in our country are Timothy Snyder and Jonathan Haidt. You may be interested in their work.
Timothy David Snyder is an American author and historian specializing in the history of Central and Eastern Europe and the Holocaust. He is the Richard C. Levin Professor of History at Yale University and a permanent fellow at the Institute for Human Sciences in Vienna. (Wikipedia) His newsletter on substack is called, 'Thinking about... ' List of his books are below.
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (2017)
Bloodlands (2010)
Black Earth: The Holocaust as History and Warning (2015)
The Road to Unfreedom (2018)
https://www.timothysnyder.org/
Jonathan David Haidt is an American social psychologist, Professor of Ethical Leadership at New York University Stern School of Business, and author. His main areas of study are the psychology of morality and moral emotions. (Wikipedia) List of his book is below.
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
2012
The Happiness Hypothesis
2006
The Coddling of the American Mind
2018
Why Do They Vote That Way? From The Righteous Mind
2018
Can't We All Disagree More Constructively? From The Righteous Mind
2016 (Links to some of articles by and about Haidt are below)
https://muckrack.com/jonathan-haidt/articles
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/12/social-media-democracy/600763/
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/05/jonathan-haidt-pandemic-and-americas-polarization/612025/
I look forward to our future exchanges.