Taking into account that any phenomena is affected by many different things and requires addressing those many things in order to impact change.
So education sure it'd be great for parents to apply your discplining regiment to get their grdes up, but how many of the parents in question have been systematic victims of the same type of oppressive conditions that has ill prepared them for having kids. And sure I see your we gott stop these kids from having kids debate but how you gonna talk about someone's mama like that. And if you are gonna talk about they mama surely you understand that she was just a product of the false promises of migration towards industries that don't exist anymore which means....
I could go on for days I guess, which leads to the point of what's the point. but the point is that fixing just one of these things isn't guaranteed to be the answer to all the issues. If we know and accept that it seems like the work that needs to be done is in fact much deeper, broader in scope, and most importantly that much more important to be addressing from a whole point of view.
But you prolly stil don't know what Im talking about.
█▆▇▅▇█▇▆▄▁▃ Big PEMFin H & z's "I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles
"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."
I don't even know how Bush's ten year war with an enemy with one name changed its name twice and suddenly it's a war they anticipate will span decades. And not a war with a nation mind you a war on terror. And we're already over a decade in but stil want to treat it purely as just plain evil rather than addressing the radical possibility that some groups in the world might actually have a reason to hate us.
█▆▇▅▇█▇▆▄▁▃ Big PEMFin H & z's "I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles
"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."
4. "I think about this a lot actually" In response to Reply # 0
The way people are these days, it would be very hard for anyone to propose such nuance without being hissed at by everyone clinging to their individual segment of the issue.
But I have hope that eventually the right communicator will come along in the right moment informed by the right ideas and experts and it will be like music.
10. "This practically reads as sarcasm" In response to Reply # 4
>But I have hope that eventually the right communicator will >come along in the right moment informed by the right ideas and >experts and it will be like music.
█▆▇▅▇█▇▆▄▁▃ Big PEMFin H & z's "I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles
"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."
5. "Recently I've been thinking the Anglo culture " In response to Reply # 0
Too puritanical moralistic and infected with judeo-christian metaphysics To have honest pragmatic solutions to problems because the problems are always framed as a morality issue or personal failings that can be overcome by personal actions which is very Anglo protestant work ethic and totally impractical.
You see it in that example of education, parents are held more personally responsible even though it was impersonal structural things that caused the problems. The thing is both sides are prone to this thinking.
_______________________________________ When discourse of Blackness is not connected to efforts to promote collective black self determinism it becomes simply another recourse appropriated by the colonizer
9. "Ues on that framing things around morality" In response to Reply # 5
Hadn't thought about it fram that angle but it sounds pretty spot on. When you apply it to the electoral process it's inevitalbly about supporting candidates mores above their solutions.
█▆▇▅▇█▇▆▄▁▃ Big PEMFin H & z's "I ain't no entertainer, and ain't trying to be one. I am 1 thing, a musician." � Miles
"When the music stops he falls back in the abyss."
11. ">>>> Then perhaps the process is flawed" In response to Reply # 8
and try discussing that openly and honestly LOL
_______________________________________ When discourse of Blackness is not connected to efforts to promote collective black self determinism it becomes simply another recourse appropriated by the colonizer
13. "I agree people are not smart/informed. But this Fascism is rooted there" In response to Reply # 12 Thu Aug-13-15 06:59 AM by dafriquan
i.e. the idea that collectively people do not know what is good for them. They must be decided for in order to prevent their selfish needs from overtaking the need of the collective. This is one of the major pillars of Fascism.
I think our only hope is to strive for a more "educated" populace and to emphasize critical thought in the syllabus from day 1. However, why would politicians allow for this to happen? It jeopardizes their position if they can't power through on highly emotional voters.
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