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Critical Thinking
One of the most common concerns I have when seeing people talk about all they “know” around topics that tend to divide us is the lack of understanding around implicit bias. We all have it. We can’t avoid it. And yet we try. Because, as the article below points out, “it isn’t nice to think…
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This article was Charley Reese’s (1937-2013) final column for the Orlando Sentinel. He’d been a journalist (with more conservative views) for 49 years. This article is one of the most well-written summaries of at least one piece of the puzzle as to why we struggle in America. I appreciate his neutral view and the way…
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This was first shared on my personal Facebook feed. I believe complacency is one of the biggest threats to the well-being of us as individuals, this country and our world. In addition to improving our critical thinking and our ability to have difficult conversations around topics we may not agree on, we must be willing…
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I’ve been reflecting a lot lately on the division of wealth and the gross difference occurring within our country, in particular. I watched a video this morning where Elizabeth Warren was sharing her plan for a 2 cent tax on wealth. I don’t really know how I feel about her plan other than to say…
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This article was first published on Common Dreams. Without a mass movement continually pushing and prodding for real change and holding politicians accountable—for their policies as well as their words—our neoliberal rulers assume that they can safely ignore the concerns and interests of ordinary people. The waves of protests breaking out in country after country…
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Americans are becoming more complacent. People socialize with similar folks on Facebook and get food delivered through Uber while sitting at home streaming Netflix. Folks medicate themselves more, keep to themselves and move less often. This isn’t the same restless America whose grit helped transform a British colony into a major superpower. Economist and blogger…
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We’re a generation drowning in news. Everybody reports, rehashes, comments, shares, recommends, likes, aggregates and spins it. Articles written by artificial intelligence, content farms, satirical sites, fake news sites, PR campaigns, or for native advertising compete for our attention and blur the distinctions between news and, well, everything else. Yet paradoxically, we’re starving for news…
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Outrage …well you aughta be outraged You oughtta be outrageously outraged. For outrage is the fierce wild unequivocal love That burns in a wolf-mother’s eyes. It is the feral opposite of shame Devouring deception in its crackling flames. It is the stone that sharpens swords to pierce illusion, it’s the force that parts the morning’s…
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“It’s just politics.” No one ever says, “it’s just governance.” Politics is organized sparring about power, without much regard for efficacy or right or wrong. Governance is the serious business of taking responsibility for leadership. Over the last twenty years, the mass media has shifted, from “here’s the news,” to, “hey, it’s just media.” As…
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This article was first posted here. Most of us are not what we could be. We are less. We have great capacity. But most of it is dormant; most is undeveloped. Improvement in thinking is like improvement in basketball, in ballet, or in playing the saxophone. It is unlikely to take place in the absence…
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