Month: July 2017

Dream 1 (hippies)

I was with a group that was apparently studying the area. We hiked and hiked up this mountain and the trees kept getting bigger and bigger, the cathedral-like canopy getting higher and darker. The trees were the size of skyscrapers and all over the ground there were these odd, iridescent mushrooms with heads like mouths.…

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Shame Culture {these days}

Mar 15, 2016 NYTimes “The ultimate sin today, Crouch argues, is to criticize a group, especially on moral grounds. Talk of good and bad has to defer to talk about respect and recognition. Crouch writes, “Talk of right and wrong is troubling when it is accompanied by seeming indifference to the experience of shame that…

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Democracy and Education

“Since this continuance can be secured only by constant renewals, life is a  self-renewing process. What nutrition and reproduction are to physiological life, education is to social life. This education consists primarily in transmission through communication. Communication is a process of sharing experience till it becomes a common possession. It modifies the disposition of both…

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