Saturday, December 19, 2020

Best "News From Barbaria" Posts, November, 16, 2020 Through December 18, 2020

 

Education and History

The Most Direct, Efficacious Way To Restore Integrity And Vigor To America's Sick Body Politic: 
Two Years Of American History - Taught Dialectically - Will Be A Pre-Requisite For High School Graduation
(Here's How It Works...)

Education, "Official Story" Deception, And Pressing Need For A New Way To Teach American History: Democracy's Survival In The Lurch
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/education-official-story-deception-and.html


Historian: There's Only One Way To Move On From Trump - And Trumpism

"Salus Populi Suprema Lex": A Revealing Investigation Of How A Little Historical Understanding Prevents A Helluva Lot Of Lunacy
 
 "Salus Populi Suprema Lex"
("The Health Of The People Is The Highest Law")

"Salus Populi Suprema Lex," Yale Law Review

History As Bullshit - And What We Can Do About It: ""Human History Becomes More And More A Race Between Education And Catastrophe"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/10/history-as-bullshit-and-what-we-can-do.html

How history would be taught if we weren't fixated on bullshit...
"Do Wars Really Defend America's Freedom?" (Homage To Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler)

"How To Make Lasting Political Progress"
(Marine Commandant, Major General Smedley Butler, Teaches Us To Win It All Through Our Persistent Determination To Keep On Losing)

"Federalists And Anti-Federalists Explained" (History As It Should Be Taught: A Mother Lode Of Superb, Dialectical Discussion At FactMyth.com)

(The above post - which illustrates how to teach history dialectically better than any other source I know - concludes with a compendium of all the links listed below... and more.) 

Originalism: A Short Course In American History - Who We Are And Where We Came From
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/10/originalism-short-course-in-american.html

Teaching Civics And American History: Humankind's Race Between Education And Catastrophe
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2018/11/teaching-civics-and-american-history.html

"The Paranoid Style In American Politics," The Definitive Essay By Richard Hofstadter

A Majority Of Republicans Hold Negative Views About Higher Education
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/a-majority-of-republicans-hold-negative.html

When Uneducated Populists Marginalize Educated Elites, Democracy Itself Wanes
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/09/when-uneducated-populists-marginalize.html

Reprise: Trump Is The Symptom Of A Broken Educational System. (Howard Zinn Is The Fix)
http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2017/03/reprise-trump-is-symptom-of-broken.html

It Has Come To This: How Do Intelligent Citizens Deal With The Irredeemably Stupid, Ignorant And Self-Pithed People Who Have Taken Over? The Invasion Of The Body Snatchers Is Now Reality
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/03/it-has-come-to-this-how-do-intelligent.html

Trump Is "Just" A Spearhead And A Symptom: Basically, Stupid People Have Taken Over
https://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2020/04/trump-is-just-spearhead-and-symptom.html

Dialogue With Fred Maske About "Conspiracy Theories That Have Changed The Course Of History"

Reprise: "The GOP Deliberately Crafted An Ignorant, Prejudicial, Hateful Consituency"

Deliberately created

"Don't Judge"
An Oscar-Winning Short Move (4 Minutes Long)

"General James Mattis Describes Trump As A Near-Nazi Turncoat-Enemy Of The American People" /// Other U.S. Generals Weigh In

U.S. Generals' Views Of Trump

In 2020 Obama Identified "An Epistemological Crisis" As America's Central Toxin. Here's How I Identified This Toxin In 2012 (This Post Has Been Updated)

"Obama Just Identified Our Biggest Problem Of All" 
 
"The Death Of Epistemology": Update

What Happens When People Matter More Than Vacant Space: An Object Lesson In The Relationship Between Perspective And Meaning (A GIF)


Trump Cultists: I Understand Their Abjectly Submissive Fearfulness. I Do Not Understand Their Refusal To Get A Life - Or To Even Try

Similarities Between Hitler And Trump
 
"Why Obama Fears For Our Democracy," An Atlantic Interview With Barack Obama
  
"Aggressive Ignorance And Christianity's Failure To Champion Truth"
 
"When The Electorate Is THIS Stupid, Is ANY Delusional Thinking Out Of Bounds?"
 
Compendium Of Best Posts Concerning American Theocracy

Trump Comments On Voter Fraud: People Can Only Be This Stupid When Their Identity Depends On Being Stupid

"This Phenomenon Explains What's Wrong With Trump Supporters' Brains"

Trolls... And The End Of Civilization As We Knew It
 
Why "Rugged Individualism" Doesn't Work

Compendium Of Posts About Socialism And Democratic Socialism: Harry Truman, Bernie Sanders And Western Europe's Democratic Socialism As Exemplified By Norway

Bill Maher Cuts To The Quick Of Birtherism/Conspiracism As An Infinite Regress "House Of Mirrors"
 
The American Right-Wing's Ersatz Theology: Ancient Gnostic Heresy Is A Key To Understanding QAnon (An Illuminating Interview From NPR's "On The Media")

The Ancient Gnostic Heresy Helps Us Understand QAnon

On The Media

"There Is a Real Opportunity Here That I Think Biden Is Capturing: The President-Elect Is Making The Climate A Top Priority" (David Leonhardt, The New York Times)
 
Nicholas Kristof On 100,000 Medical Miracles Worked By One Nepalese Surgeon: Jesus Weighs In
Ger Blindness Cataracts

"Interstellar," Myth, And "The Christian Buddhism Of St. John: New Insights Into The Fourth Gospel"
Bruns

Do These People Look Real? Artificial Intelligence Proves That "Seeing Is Not Believing"

Designed To Deceive: Do These People Look Real To You

You Can Now Buy A "Fake Person" -- A Person You Would Swear-To-God Is Real

"Before There Was Trump, There Was Cleon": A Discussion About Demagoguery And Populism
 
My Reply To A University Of Toronto Conspiracist Friend Who Is Convinced That Alleged "Evidence" Of  Voting Machine Fraud Proves That Joe Biden Stole The Presidency

Stephen Colbert And Seth Myer Review The Ugly Death Of Trump's Embarrassing Attempt To Seize Joe Biden's Popular Votes

The Temptation Of Buddha And The Fourth Gospel

Compendium of "Pax-Barbaria" Stupidity Posts

"Before There Was Trump, There Was Cleon": A Discussion About Demagoguery And Populism

  http://paxonbothhouses.blogspot.com/2019/08/before-there-was-trump-there-was-cleon.html  

"Coronavirus Rhapsody" By Raúl Irabién, Based On "Bohemian Rhapsody"

  https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/11/coronavirus-rhapsody-by-raul-irabien.html  

In 2020 Obama Identified "An Epistemological Crisis" As America's Central Toxin. Here's How I Identified This Toxin In 2012 (This Post Has Been Updated)

Religion, Perfectionism, Savonarola and The Pending Apocalypse of The Republican Party (This Post Was Written In 2012)

 "The Death Of Epistemology": Update

  The Shocking Academic Paper That Predicted "The End of Democracy" (Written By A Harvard-Yale-Oxford Grad)  


"The Facts Are In: The Republican Party Is Terrible For Prosperity But Unparalleled At Catastrophe"
New and Improved!

Education Or Catastrophe (With Special Emphasis On The Teaching Of History)

this is probably the best of these education or catastrophe posts

Two Full Years Of American History Taught Dialectically Is The Swiftest, Surest Path To Restoration Of Social And Political Health In The American Body Politic
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/09/two-full-years-of-american-history.html

Native America: Why Don't Middle School And High School American History Texts Tell The Truth?
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/07/native-america-why-dont-middle-school.html  

That's All, Folks! A Farewell To Frank Stasio
State of Things

"The Rotting Of The Republican Mind"
David Brooks

"Thanksgiving": One Person's Justification For Thieving Genocide Is Another Person's Rage At Being Ripped Off And Mass Murdered

Ortiz indigennous

Lies

Remember when GOP Sen. Ted Cruz said that COVID would "magically" disappear within a week if Biden was elected.
American conservatives can not NOT lie.
"Trump Lies Shamelessly, Compulsively, Continuously... And His Followers Suck The Sludge"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/10/trump-lies-beyond-any-bound-and-his.html

Compendium: Trump And His Minions Lie-And-Mislead More Easily Than They Metabolize, With A Special Guest Appearance By Master Bull-Shitter, Kayleigh McEnany
Best Lies compendium

"Trump's Rallies Define His Vision Of Liberty: The Right Not To Care About Other People"
https://news.yahoo.com/trumps-rallies-define-his-view-of-liberty-the-right-not-to-care-about-other-people-200313032.html

"Kayleigh McEnany Has Made A Mockery Of Her Promise Not To Lie(Her White House Press Briefings Are Parodies Of Dystopian Governance)"
https://www.vox.com/2020/9/23/21451585/kayleigh-mcenany-white-house-press-briefing-lies

"Kayleigh McEnany's Lies About Alleged Voter Fraud Reveal The Sludge Sucking Nature Of The Beast"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/11/mcenanys-lies-about-alleged-voter-fraud.html

"Fox News Cuts Away From Kayleigh McEnany's Baseless Claims Of Voter Fraud"


Trump skips G20 pandemic event to visit golf club as virus ravages US
195,500 new US cases reported in 24-hour period as president skips event focused on ‘coordinated response’ to Covid

Trump Force Feeds Sludge To His Abject Followers: A Compendium Of Compendia

The Most Direct, Efficacious Way To Restore Integrity And Vigor To America's Sick Body Politic: 
Two Years Of American History - Taught Dialectically - Will Be A Pre-Requisite For High School Graduation
(Here's How It Works...)

"Federalists And Anti-Federalists Explained" (History As It Should Be Taught: A Mother Lode Of Superb, Dialectical Discussion At FactMyth.com)

(The above post - which illustrates how to teach history dialectically better than any other source I know - concludes with a compendium of all the links listed below... and more.)

"Good Ideas For The Body Politic" - A Distillation Of My Activist Thinking

The Difference Between Socialism And Capitalism

"What To Do When You Are So Full Of Shit..."

A Very Inconvenient Truth: I Wish I Had Better News Than This Moribund Prognosis For "Conservative" "Christianity"

"Why Is It That We Automatically Know The Political Affiliation Of These People?"

Fred's "Almost Weekly": "Up Shit Creek, Memories of Robert Sund"

Jimmy Kimmel Interviews Barack Obama About His New Book --- My Experience Of Obama's Inauguration, January 20, 2009
 
"The Difference Between Refusing To Wear A Seat Belt And Refusing To Wear A Mask"  

What Is Most Remarkable Is That Trump - And His Crime Family - Are Open About Their Criminality

What Christian Conservatives Need To Know About Trump... And About Themselves

Compendium Of Best "Pax-Barbaria" Posts About "Christian" "Conservatism": "Fantasyland," "Jim Bakker" And "Theological Dunderheadness" Will Scare The Bejesus Out Of You... If Your Body Hasn't Already Been Snatched

15-Year-Old Innovator Named 'Kid Of The Year' By Time Magazine


Why "Absolutists" Prefer To See "Relativists" Dead... Whereas "Relativists" Prefer That "Absolutists" Just Mind Their Own Business
Trump cultists see liberals dead liberals want to see trump cultists mind their own business left alone leave alone

Denmark To Phase Out Oil And Gas In Landmark Decision

In Their Heart Of Hearts, Trump Cultists Want Liberals Dead. On The Other Side Of The Aisle, Liberals Want Conservatives To Just Leave Them Alone (And To Leave Religion Out Of Policy- Making)

Racism, The Division Of The United States Into Two Separate Polities, And The Sudden Collapse Of The Soviet Union

Red States Blue States

Updating My Proposal Concerning Possible Division Of The "United" States Into Two Separate Nations

Red States Blue States

What Would Happen If, "Miraculously," Trump's Electoral Victory Were Validated By Swing States Who Suddenly Admitted That Their Vote Tallies Had Been Manipulated... And The Supreme Court Agreed?

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/what-would-happen-if-miraculously.html

"Texas GOP Chair Proposes Red State Secession. (Please do.)"

LISTEN: Bill Moyers discusses what Trump will do next as Biden’s victory drives him barking mad


The New (Ab)Normal: Flood Every Media Platform With A Fire Hose Of Falsehood... And The Need For A New Journalistic Method
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/10/the-new-abnormal-flood-every-media.html

Journalists Should Be In "Emergency" Mode: Journalistic Method Needs To Be Redefined To Deal With Trump's Re-Definition Of Bullshit As Normalcy 
"On The Media"
https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm/segments/journalists-should-be-emergency-mode-on-the-media 

SUPERB INTERVIEW With Boston College History Professor, Heather Cox Richardson: Bill Moyers Discusses What Trump Will Do Next As Biden's Victory Drives Him "Barking Man"

Lincoln's Observation On America's Suicide

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/lincolns-observation-on-americas-suicide.html

Lincoln: Truth Is Everything
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/lincoln-truth-is-everything.html

"The Decisive Distinction Between People Who Can Think And Those Who Can't"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/the-decisive-distinction-between-people.html
Stupidity

Compendium Of Best Hannah Arendt Posts
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/compendium-of-best-hannah-arendt-posts.html

"A Confession: I'm Starting To Write Off Stupid People As Incorrigible"

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/a-confession-im-starting-to-write-off.html

"Federalists And Anti-Federalists Explained" (History As It Should Be Taught: A Mother Lode Of Superb, Dialectical Discussion At FactMyth.com)

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/federalists-and-anti-federalists.html

Hunter S. Thompson: Trusting Liberals Will Get Stomped To Shit If They Don't Realize That Most American Conservatives Will Do Any Goddamn Thing Stomp Shit Out Of Them

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/hunter-s-thompson-trusting-liberals.html

My Post To Elodie's Facebook: On The Indispensable Need For Fluctuation Between Right-Wing And Left-Wing Parties Who Must Alternate Control Of Government In Order To Guarantee Democracy's Survival

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/my-post-to-elodies-facebook-there-is.html
Abner

"Prohibition And Abortion"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/prohibition-and-abortion.html

Trump-Supporting "Christians" Have The Same Shifty, Ungrounded View Of Truth As Pontius Pilate (Except When Absolutism Suits Their Political Agenda

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/in-its-original-literal-sense-moral.html
QAnon as the inevitable end state of the lies needed to keep absolutism alive
Back in the 50's Back in the 50s
any weirdo-relative weirdo relative

Faith, Truth, Absolutism, Relativism And New Age Snake Handlers: A Summary Of Trump Cult Delusion And The God-Awful Difficulty Of Escaping The Trap They've Set For Themselves

https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/faith-truth-absolutism-relativism-and.html 
 
Danny Caribou Masia Can Pares "Indonesian Room"
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/danny-caribou-at-masia-can-pares-sitges.html
Sitges, Barcelona, Catalonia

Ger ICON Award
https://newsfrombarbaria.blogspot.com/2020/12/homeless-addicted-poor-and-hungry.html

 




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