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"Love the book... just am very busy with semester requirements! :)" — Nov 12, 2015 03:35PM
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Unless you are interested in childhood behavior... leave this OFF your reading and/or study list. This one is about as exciting as blank paper.
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“Trump’s falsehoods connect with longstanding American Nativist and Know-Nothing movements, and with totalistic contemporary Republican assertions. He in fact draws upon the voices of right-wing extremism, what Todd Gitlin calls “The Vortex” of “the Birthers, Whitewater, ‘Travelgate,’ and Vince Foster conspiracy theorists, ‘death panel’ enthusiasts, ‘Lock her up!’ chanters, scientist-haters and other Flat Earth factions.” In other words Trump’s solipsism can connect with a sea of mostly right-wing exaggeration, misinformation, conspiracism, falsehood, and lies.”
― Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry
― Losing Reality: On Cults, Cultism, and the Mindset of Political and Religious Zealotry
“America has entered one of its periods of historical madness, but this is the worst I can remember: worse than McCarthyism, worse than the Bay of Pigs and in the long term potentially more disastrous than the Vietnam war. —John Le Carré”
― The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine
― The Violence of Organized Forgetting: Thinking Beyond America's Disimagination Machine
“Within the last thirty years, the United States under the reign of market fundamentalism has been transformed into a society that is more about forgetting than learning, more about consuming than producing, more about asserting private interests than democratic rights.”
― Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education
― Neoliberalism's War on Higher Education
“If Americans actually understood the structure of our taxes, they would not only become angry, they might also find our economic and political systems intolerable because they are the cause of our unjust tax codes ... We could revolutionize the financial conditions of every American city and town—solve all or most of its tax revenue problems—if the property tax system were simply extended from tangible property to also include intangible property. If you want some quick solutions to our nation's fiscal problems, that would be one. Even on the simple basis of fairness, how can we justify having a property tax system that exempts the intangible property owned mostly by the richest amongst us? What a prime example of the Occupy movement's central point about the economic injustice perpetrated by the 1 percent against the 99 percent.”
― Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism
― Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism
“Our leaders keep saying phrases like, “Let the market decide.” or “The market will get to the efficient outcome.” Really? The market is a very flawed institution that does not deserve the nearly religious kind of endorsement of it that our leaders are eager to provide over and over again.”
― The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself
― The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself
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