1. Propaganda by Jacques Ellul 2. Quoted on Cutting Through the Matrix 3. Video: Betrayal by Technology 4. More on Ellul’s bio 5. More on his bio 6. Summary of what Ellul says in Propaganda Value for value: If you … Continue reading →
Version 3.2: October 27, 2019 Complete, but want to add several links. Research suggestions for other posts Crome Yellow is a novel published in 1921 by Brave New World author Aldous Huxley [1]. According to commentators, this novel is a … Continue reading →
By Alan Mercer, 20 March 2016 Edition 2 Broadcast presentation just under 3 hours (too long to watch) Happiness and Well-being in the UN 2030 Agenda: Achieving a New Vision of Sustainable Development for the People and the Planet at … Continue reading →
Adoption of the Paris Agreement United Nations, Framework Convention on Climate Change | 12 December 2015 Conference of the Parties Twenty-first session Paris, 30 November to 11 December 2015 Agenda item 4(b) Durban Platform for Enhanced Action (decision 1/CP.17) Adoption … Continue reading →
Re. climate conferences in Paris and Canadian Liberal government’s support of climate change measures. If I was part of a movement that stood up against the “carbon pricing” (that has already been implemented provincially in some cases) then I would … Continue reading →
I realize now what people mean when they are glorifying “science” and claiming that someone is stupid and anti-science because they don’t believe the media and education system’s version of reality. The “scientific method” doesn’t refer to testing and evaluating … Continue reading →
CASS SUNSTEIN: Choosing Not to Choose: Understanding the Value of Choice OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 2015 newbooksnetwork.com, Robert Talisse | September 1, 2015 | (can be accessed from iTunes) Very cleverly justifies behavior modification and interference in our choices. As usual, … Continue reading →
. . . already widespread concern about the possibility of biological and chemical tampering with what has until now been considered the immutable essence of man. Human conduct, some argue, can be predetermined and subjected to deliberate control. Man is … Continue reading →
In his 1946 Foreword to Brave New World, Aldous Huxley writes: “This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings. . . . Sade regarded himself as … Continue reading →