Previously Titled "Do You Know Your ABCs? "
This is an outstanding diary from DailyKos, highlighting words kids (and adults) should all be conversant in. I'm all for building my vocabulary. How 'bout you? Read on. . .
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Do You Know Your ABCs?
by DeweyCounts
Thu Aug 16, 2007 at 07:09:32 AM PDT
We will never have a participatory and egalitarian social order until we have adults with the language to imagine and articulate such an order.
But where do those adults come from?
Our schools?
Doubtful... Leaving education up to corporations, we have basically ensured America's children will have to wait until after school...if they are lucky....to appropriate the language necessary to free themselves, and each other, from various isms...
Here are a few important words children need to know to become the type of critical citizen necessary for identifying and checking power, the type of critical citizen necessary for genuine democracy to obtain and maintain. [snip]
An issue first identified in the 19th century, ALIENATION, or isolation from one's self, others and the world, remains problematic today. Media, especially television, creates false consciousness and false need, separating us from our selves and each other. This same mechanism then sells us back a surrogate connection in the form of consumerism. BRAND IDENTITY, the "personality" which a company projects about itself and its products, replaces meaningful community as people form bonds not with each other, but with symbols. In desperate pursuit of acquisition, CAPITALISM places economic growth, or profit, at a higher value than human life. . .
[Excerpt]
Do You Know Your ABCs?
by DeweyCounts
Thu Aug 16, 2007 at 07:09:32 AM PDT
We will never have a participatory and egalitarian social order until we have adults with the language to imagine and articulate such an order.
But where do those adults come from?
Our schools?
Doubtful... Leaving education up to corporations, we have basically ensured America's children will have to wait until after school...if they are lucky....to appropriate the language necessary to free themselves, and each other, from various isms...
Here are a few important words children need to know to become the type of critical citizen necessary for identifying and checking power, the type of critical citizen necessary for genuine democracy to obtain and maintain. [snip]
An issue first identified in the 19th century, ALIENATION, or isolation from one's self, others and the world, remains problematic today. Media, especially television, creates false consciousness and false need, separating us from our selves and each other. This same mechanism then sells us back a surrogate connection in the form of consumerism. BRAND IDENTITY, the "personality" which a company projects about itself and its products, replaces meaningful community as people form bonds not with each other, but with symbols. In desperate pursuit of acquisition, CAPITALISM places economic growth, or profit, at a higher value than human life. . .
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