In its modern usage, innovation is the idea of progress jammed into a criticism-proof jack-in-the-box...
(Nodding so much am giving myself neckache.)
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In its modern usage, innovation is the idea of progress jammed into a criticism-proof jack-in-the-box...
(Nodding so much am giving myself neckache.)
"The corruption of men who have casually risen to power has a course and vulgar infection in it which renders it contagious to the multitude."
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America"
We first heard "El Pueblo Unido" years ago when we were gifted this Inti-Illimani Historico anthology by some Chilean friends. My teen rediscovered it through friends two weeks ago and has been playing it daily on piano. It feels appropriate and moving at the moment.
https://open.spotify.com/track/5QZDNOt10nKcLvyPbrwYCp?si=Mb1DdPf4QEWzCCr7Kis5lw
#Tuesdaytunes @TieDyeDude
pickPaine‘s passion against a monarchical government is present in this short treatise. It may be short, but it packs a punch.
250 years later, it‘s a reminder of the struggle for independence in the American colonies. I‘m glad I took the time to revisit this and ponder how much this relates to today‘s political climate.
""The will of the nation" is one of those expressions which have been most profusely abused by the wily and the despotic of every age. To the eyes of some it has been represented by the venal suffrages of a few of the satellites of power; to others by the votes of a timid or an interested minority; and some have even discovered it in the silence of a people, on the supposition that the fact of submission established the right of command."
pickA brief book on the ways to challenge tyranny. Important and timely in the world we currently live in.
As these and other critics have demonstrated again and again, a sizable number of people polled either know nothing about the matters those polls purport to measure or hold no opinion about them. "The first question a pollster should ask," the sociologist Leo Bogart advised in 1972, is "'Have you thought about this at all? Do you have an opinion?"
#readingispolitical #overcomingevilempires #antifabookclub #IndependenceDay
It‘s almost midnight. Going to clear my head with a a little Langston Hughes poetry before bed.
pickI have finally read this important document that reasoned with colonists to break away from the tyranny of a British king. He used Scriptures and history and just plain common sense to support his claim. I don't understand why I have never been asked to read it, but I thank @Librarybelle for the push. It is very readable and it is still relevant after 250 years.
