Posted on 03/27/2022 8:22:53 AM PDT by Borges
If you want to understand what's happening in the world today, you must understand: (1) We live in Herbert Marcuse's world, and (2) Our children almost all go to Paulo Freire's schools.
First, we live in Herbert Marcuse's world. This is the world of "Repressive Tolerance," at first blush. It's a world in which movements from the Left must be extended tolerance, even if violent, and movements from the Right must not, to the point of censored *thought*.
We also live in Marcuse's aims, which include sexual liberation (his 1955 book, Eros and Civilization), liberation more broadly through Identity Marxism (Essay on Liberation, 1969), and total Critical Theory and Sustainability (One Dimensional Man, 1964).
The biggest thrusts of Marcuse's work as it applies to the world today, aside from the abusive hierarchy in Repressive Tolerance, are Identity Marxism (new proletariat) and achieving liberated Sustainability (Neo-Communism) through introjecting a "New Sensibility" for Socialism.
The Great Reset is the attempt to create conditions by which total social control can introject the "New Sensibility," including Identity Marxism (Equity and Justice) through Repressive Tolerance. The goal is a "sustainable and inclusive future" under Neo-Communism.
By controlling social media, algorithms, community standards, social credit, etc., the New Sensibility will be forced upon the population until it sticks (Marcuse's introjection). Sustainability in a circular economy will resolve Marx's fundamental contradictions of capital.
The brand name and mechanism for the New Sensibility are "ESG" (Environmental, Social, and Governance standards) and "SDG" (Sustainable Development Goals"). Like Marcuse said, these will require being content with less of everything and a reduction in the world's population.
NB: Marcuse, in the name of Sustainability (Neo-Communism), explicitly calls for a reduction in the world's future population near the end of One-Dimensional Man. That book was written in 1964, when the world population with 3.9 billion, about half of what it is now.
So, we live in Herbert Marcuse's nightmare world (which he modeled after those who reject everything, thus both Heaven and Hell, in the third canto of Dante's Inferno).
Why? Mostly ESG and SDGs, but also because our children almost all go to Paulo Freire's schools.
Paulo Freire, like Herbert Marcuse, was a neo-Marxist nutjob, but rather than giving a nightmarish totalitarian vision for the whole Great Reset future, Freire merely redefined education completely in Marxist terms. Not like Dewey and Counts, who used parts of the Soviet model.
Freire actually redesigned education completely to be Marxist. His books are among the most cited in education, humanities, and social science, and all they really do is take the product of education, being educated (or "literate") and turn it into a Marxist structure.
For Freire, being "formally educated" is like having gained access to bourgeois society, so learning what society considers knowledge (or literacy, including social literacy in the existing system) is to obtain a form of bourgeois property, which, per Marx, must be abolished.
Freire retooled education to get away from learning skills that are useful in the existing society (like being able to read, as literacy) and redefined being literate, or educated, as having obtained a critical consciousness of one's conditions and context. Knowing made Marxist.
Culturally relevant teaching (the other CRT) reproduces this Freirean frame within Marcuse-derived Identity Marxism. Thus, there, context matters and educational attainment doesn't, because that would merely reproduce the existing dominant system, which is the worst thing.
Because for Freire education (and "literacy") is sociopolitical education on Marxist terms, Freire also explicitly blends the roles of educator and social worker, paving the way for the (Transformative) Social-Emotional Learning of today, which enables Identity Maoism in schools.
So now we live in this nightmare world where our kids don't just go to Soviet-style schools or Maoist schools but go to schools where the entire program of education has been retooled into a Marxist endeavor used to program Marxist thought. Total disaster!
This is all being used to set the bottom-up stage for what ESG and SDGs achieve from the top-down and inside-out: the Marcusian "Sustainable" Neo-Communism in which technology solves the production (automation) and distribution (AI) problems inherent to central planning.
If you want to understand the crazy world we live in, then, it's applied Herbert Marcuse. If you want to understand why our kids are being programmed instead of educated, it's Marcusian-adapted Freirean schools. All of this is neo-Marxism, which is really just Marxism warmed over
Democrats are evil scum.
“...a circular economy...”
First I heard of this, but our EPA is already on the case.
https://www.epa.gov/recyclingstrategy/what-circular-economy
For later study.
This is frightening and unfortunately true. It is a hideously nightmarish and dystopian world.
One hopes it can be undone.
I’ve known about Frier for a long time, came upon his evil crap researching the Franciscan led anti-nuclear protesters at Yucca Mountain.
Hands down the most important and relative essay post ive read here or anywhere online in 20 years.
This should be read at every school board meeting in the country every time one meets.
Then board members quizzed on their afirmation or denial of its points.
Polysyllabic, pseudo-intellectual twaddle.
Over-heated, and over-thought to the point of near-incoherence. Tortured muddled thinking.
(Call me old fashioned...)
Marcuse was one of the “brilliant” minds that led the effort to redefine national SOCIALISM as right-wing and treat Stalin as less evil than Hitler.
On who’s part? It’s hard to talk about Marcuse without sounding that way.
All of this comes out of the university, and like Cassandra’s prophesies, the message will go noticed until it is far too late. The universities should literally be burnt down. They are evil. But of course we are too civilized to do that today. The university was founded in Christian culture and, now they are an empty shell housing an evil presence, a demonic spirit. If the Left wants to see statues pulled down then we should pull down the university. They are an active evil presence in the world. They are the home of Communism/Marxism which has killed more people in the last century than at any other time in history. They are a living monument to our insanity and the evil of the Left. They are mini Carthages that should be leveled, and the earth salted over.
We live in the theatre of the absurd. Reaonh is thrown overboard and German Romanticism is ushered in.
they are an empty shell housing an evil presence, a demonic spirit.
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Yup.
And after they salted the fields so no sane thought could survive at the college’s , they went on to salt the fields of the seminaries and turned them into cemataries four the soul.
Not all, But most.
James Lindsey is brilliant, funny, rather young, and worth listening to.
I have his twit page bookmarked.
As a professor I can confirm that this is true.
A much better presentation of Freire’s agenda...
https://www.freire.org/concepts-used-by-paulo-freire
How’s your Aquinas coming along?
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