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Notes from the edge of civilization: Apr. 28, 2024
Notes from the edge of civilization: Apr. 28, 2024 No one wants EVs, but governments keep subsidizing them; Canada’s economy is being zombified; Education — higher and otherwise — is still woke, but not awake; and, cursive as cure. TRUTH IN ADVERTISING: Even Ford’s own marketing materials admit that EVs are a product “drivers really want… but […]
Educating for the Prime Directive
Educating for the Prime Directive Recently, I was involved in a discussion about the things we do and do not teach our children. I’ve already said quite a bit on this subject. But after talking with a few other people about education, and especially secondary education, I realized I approached the subject from the assumption that the purpose […]
Teaching (or Cultivating) Sustainability (or Inhabitance), Ten Years On
Teaching (or Cultivating) Sustainability (or Inhabitance), Ten Years On For ten years now, I’ve been teaching one version or another of a class on personal simplicity and economic and environmental sustainability here at Friends University, a formerly Quaker, non-denominational Christian, small liberal arts college in Wichita, KS. Though I teach at a religious university, I don’t teach religion […]
Seeing through the seductions of science and technology
Seeing through the seductions of science and technology The history books in our schools tell us that scientific and technological advancement have freed us from boredom, ignorance and oppression; from drudgery and repetition; from dirt, disease and malnutrition. Let’s briefly examine these assumptions about what “progress” has achieved, and consider where we go from here. […]
Imagination, STEM and Reading Lolita in Tehran
Imagination, STEM and Reading Lolita in Tehran Azar Nafisi, author of the international bestseller, Reading Lolita in Tehran, explains that the title of her book came from her diary in which she kept track of activities that were no longer allowed in post-revolutionary Iran, but which people engaged in as a form of resistance. One of those […]
You Are Fighting In The Most Important Battle Of All Time
You Are Fighting In The Most Important Battle Of All Time If you are reading this, it’s most likely the result of a series of events in your life which have drawn your interest and attention to the fact that our world is quite a bit different from what we’ve been told by our school teachers, […]
Renewables Are Dead
Renewables Are Dead If I’ve said once that those among us who tout renewable energy should pay more attention to the 2nd law of Thermodynamics, I must have said it a hundred times. But I hardly ever get the impression that people understand why. And it seems so obvious. A quote I often use from […]
The One True Thing
wikimedia The One True Thing Until you understand it, it will rule your life. Until you see clearly how the rules of society work, you will be trapped within a system of control. What you mistake for reality is instead a fabricated simulation, designed to keep you trapped right where the system wants you. Your […]
How to Make Your Garden Have Less Weeds?
HOW TO MAKE YOUR GARDEN HAVE LESS WEEDS? In crop gardens, we sometimes get into a spatial race with weeds, and the solution is to replace the weeds with “designed weeds” to take up the space. This can be done with green manure mulches to fertilize the gardens and supply quality mulch. This is an […]
The State weaponizes education to create ignorance
The State weaponizes education to create ignorance Independent Education: the crisis and the crossroad A hundred fifty years ago, at least some Americans recognized that all serious discourse depended on the use of the faculty called Reason. Formal debate, science, and law all flowed from that source. A common bond existed in some schools of the […]
Schools and Universities are Liberals’ Trojan Horse for New World Order Indoctrination
Schools and Universities are Liberals’ Trojan Horse for New World Order Indoctrination From NFL players ‘taking a knee’ during the national anthem, to preschoolers being brainwashed with the ideology of transgenderism, these left-leaning movements have one goal in mind, and that is to undermine and destroy the foundation of the Western nation state. This month, […]
10-Minute Neighborhoods: The Low-Tech Solution to Almost* Everything
10-Minute Neighborhoods: The Low-Tech Solution to Almost* Everything What if it were possible to make headway on all these issues with simple changes to our neighborhoods? What if we could cut our medical costs in half? What if we could give the average American an added five years of healthy life? What if we could […]
The Twilight of Authority
The Twilight of Authority I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the need for a rhetorical education—that is, an education that doesn’t presume to lay down the law about what’s true and what’s false, but instead teaches each individual how to understand and assess claims about truth and falsehood. That’s a concept many people […]
Scientific Education as a Cause of Political Stupidity
Scientific Education as a Cause of Political Stupidity While we’re discussing education, the theme of the current series of posts here on The Archdruid Report, it’s necessary to point out that there are downsides as well as upsides to take into account. The savant so saturated in abstractions that he’s hopelessly inept at the business of […]
In Praise of the Reprehensible
In Praise of the Reprehensible Last month’s post here on cultural senility and its antidotes discussed the way that modern education erases the past in order to defend today’s ideologies against the lessons of history. While that post focused on the leftward end of the political spectrum—the end that currently dominates what we still jokingly call “higher […]
