The tide may be shifting. How many Marjories does it take to destroy public education? I’m trying, breathing my words into the world, so damned woke I have trouble sleeping. I know if I feel this sense of something changing, others do. Secondhand woke. Share this 73 seconds of childishness.
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17 Aug 2022
Oral Rendering of [By the Book]
James Gee, a wise linguist, wrote about the moral obligation we share to interrogate our own personal ideology apart from groupthink. To interrogate ourselves critically, we must have built primary, personal descriptions of and explanations for reality—primary theories to warrant political action in and on the world. Otherwise, we must rely on removed theories, rooted in shallow soil, or even deferred theories—‘I don’t know but experts know.’ Where do roads come from? Any primary theories?
The existential work of primary theory in an ethical human community depends upon a red wheelbarrow, a commitment to the common good. James Gee (1996) clarified the predicate of this commitment through pointing to learned behavior, that is, learning to act in ways that work against your own self-interest if the cost is material or social loss to others. Make everyone whole. Gee argued that teaching this skill is the central reason for schools and schooling—a training manual for participation in an ethical human community.
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17 Aug 2022
Oral Rendering of [The Taint Test]
Twist it any way you can. Take the high road, take the low, take the Highway to Heaven. The GOP is hijacked by a cult; it is not a political party with a coherent ideology of any sort. It is a loose band of victims with an anti-ideology in the original sense of the word as per de Trace (1815). The GOP is dead, long live the GOP.
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