Wet pants in the @Twitter little boys’ room? Or has that trickle down from the executive washroom upstairs after 25 years of Gordon Geckoe Federal Reserve monetarist & fruitloop fiscal stimulation exuberance and not a little penis-waving begun to make a terrible stink?
Whatever our fearless truth-to-power investigations may show at some point way off into the dodgy future it is clear confusion reigns and the gravely cognitively impaired have taken over. Need I add that this will not end well? Oh. It does seem the world has plummeted from limits to growth to limits to rhetoric in 58 years.
Celebrating the Club of Rome today.
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Dear & not so dear misreaders..
Ms Atwood this is interesting
I think there’s an important new avenue of #Sociology here.
I have been a student and developer of Told Belle/McLuhan edu-socially constructed unlived vicarious “2nd hand” represented #auspol
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lived experiences & relationships affecting all children who grew up with television as entertainment & internet connected screens with lists & bullet points as study.
Misreading is #ITC when politicians are more intent on @GretaThunberg’s blah processes than policy #auspol
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For some reason I am having my comments in #Sociology & #education in relation to your point Ms Atwood about people misreading narratives/ storylines commonly generating in their own minds readings 180° off the original blocked by @Twitter
Mercifully the 3 Tweets have be let through this morning. But a fourth one? Nh-nh. See last section of this report “Now the Climate..”
“The boot’s on the other foot” a First Nations elder said to me in 1974 at Chihduna on South Australia’s west coast. Poignant. The bloke was wrong by the way – captured by undergraduate revolutionary sentiment in the person of a Queen’s Counsel personage who founded the Aboriginal Legal Rights Movement of SA back then.
Writing about misreadings being culturally, socially and educationally reinforced for “socially engineered” negative ends including unquestioning noise-making consumer subservience (along exactly the lines advised by Sigmund Freud’s brother-in-law Edward Bernays in the 1920’s) puts us at the sharp end of children’s skills development & training policy.
There is a crying need – everywhere – for kids to learn Critical Thinking. To be exposed to Paulo Friere’s or Ivan Illich’s Problem Posing Education, for example. If the mediaeval #CatholicChurch continues to bribe, blackmail & neutralise the AUTHENTIC education of children and young people that is all the more reason for global leaders to urgently marginalise that institution – to flatly and simply strip it of all its outrageous secular public policy making powers. #auspol
The mental AND cognitive dumbdown – learned helplessness* – is violently eroding active and emotional intelligence in a human race and ecological biota now also under dire threat of microbial viruses. I believe Ms Atwood’s incidental and unexceptionable observation points strongly towards urgent society-wide, worldwide reexamination.
Now the #Climate Intransigence Sharp End..
We get right down to the bedrock of #FossilFuels-#economy/ major accountancy firms/ #wallstreet #CrimesAgainstHumanity : the following #Twitter message is currently BLOCKED from transmission from my account #wired_we:
“Renewable controllable gas for this generation and the next” – a free-to-air television advertisement 8:25 pm 13/7/2022 @SBS.
We will fight you people into the ground. No insurance available to you #Oil #Economy ghouls – only huge bags & suitcases full of organised crime 💰🤑 . You’re done. #Independents @Greens #climate #energy #journalist John Blundell SA
14th July 2022 10:30 AM Central Australian Time
Astounding
*Martin Seligman USA 1965: Learned helplessness theory is the view that clinical depression and related mental illnesses may result from a real or perceived absence of control over the outcome of a situation.