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Nussbaum, M.C.: Not For Profit: Why Democracy Needs the Humanities. (Hardcover) - 1 views

  • Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have rightly been seen as essential for creating competent democratic citizens. But recently, Nussbaum argues, thinking about the aims of education has gone disturbingly awry both in the United States and abroad. Anxiously focused on national economic growth, we increasingly treat education as though its primary goal were to teach students to be economically productive rather than to think critically and become knowledgeable and empathetic citizens. This shortsighted focus on profitable skills has eroded our ability to criticize authority, reduced our sympathy with the marginalized and different, and damaged our competence to deal with complex global problems. And the loss of these basic capacities jeopardizes the health of democracies and the hope of a decent world.
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    Her findes nogle argumenter for humaniora og åndsvidenskab fra en person, hvis hele værk også kan ses som et forsvar for disse.
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    Har lige checket anmeldelser på Amazon, og bogen lyder interessant, men også måske lidt for tynd. Se f.eks.: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2DJTI7ZHQ0LPW/ref=cm_cr_dp_cmt?ie=UTF8&ASIN=0691140642&nodeID=283155&store=books#wasThisHelpful Hendes pointer med at uddannelser i dag begrundes med vækst, synes jo at være i fuldstændig synkronisation med den igangværende dimensionering på danske universiteter. Jeg føler mig samtidig følelsesmæssigt ude af stand til at rumme min egen frustration over, hvad jeg oplever som magtmisbrug og korruption bland nutidens politkere og embedsfolk (som f.eks. ham jeg fortalte om, der er mere interesserede i storcentre end uddannelser, og i øvrigt scorer en kæmpe løn). I virkeligheden synes jeg det er noget, som er værd for mig/os at behandle denne frustration helt separat, for den forhindrer én i at komme videre med den vedholdende kritik, og arbejde med alternativer. Mit bedste middel mod den er at ignorere politikerdimensionen af virkeligheden, og måske det bare er det, som jeg fortsat skal gøre. De er simpelthen udenfor rækkevidde. De tjener deres gode penge, har deres fede karrierer, og har bildt sig selv ind, at de gør det godt, og der er ikke længere noget, der kan trænge ind til dem. Se i øvrigt mit link til http://www.information.dk/511467
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The Triumph of Emptiness - Mats Alvesson - Bok (9780199660940) | Adlibris Bokhandel - A... - 1 views

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    "Using a wide range of empirical examples to illuminate the realms of consumption, higher education, organization, and leadership, this provocative and engaging book challenges established assumptions and contributes to a critical understanding of society as a whole."
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    Han har sgu skrevet nogle interessant ting. Spørgsmålet er, hvad man kan bruge det i konstruktivt sammenhæng?
sylvester roepstorff

The Collapse of Fractional Banking | Wall Street Survivor University - 1 views

  • The U.S. government has confirmed that indeed a recession began in December 2007, when the price of oil climbed to nearly $100 a barrel.
  • And this is what governments are seeing, banks are seeing, what markets are seeing, but no one is talking about it because it portends changes that are greater than anyone can seriously contemplate.
  • Critics of the concept of peak oil claim that it is crazy to suggest we’re running out of oil – and they’re right! These critics fail to understand the predicament of Peak Oil which is that the rate of growth in the daily/monthly/yearly production of oil is slowing and after the peak, will fall into permanent decline.
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  • Indeed, it is our collective addiction to growth that is the cause of this peak oil predicament. Our entire way of life is focused on growth: growing a family, growing a city, growing a business and growing our economy. All of this growth was needed to perpetuate the fractional reserve banking system, which is now on life support, about to die.
  • "We’re dealing with a cultural problem.
  • It all depends on your inner state, your point of view, how you interpret the world around you.
sylvester roepstorff

International Banking Ponzi Scheme | Wall Street Survivor University - 1 views

  • This perpetual game of borrow-lend-borrow and fractional reserve banking is dependent on the paradigm of infinite economic growth.
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    Let og overskuelig forklaring af Fractional Reserve Banking. 
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    Mekanikken står stadigvæk ikke lysende klart for mig. Kan man nå en situation, hvor alle penge så at sige er lånt ud i det maksimale antal led? Og hvis man kan det, hvor er de lånte penge henne? Kan de ikke altid indgå i nye lån? Ihh - rekursivitet er svært at forstå.
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    Derudover kunne jeg godt li' at vide, om det så faktisk er pga. olien, at bankerne kan blive ved med at trykke nye penge uden at det får alt for voldsom konsekvens i forhold til inflationen.
sylvester roepstorff

Indignez vous! by Stephane Hessel - the text « Sapte Stele / Seven Stars - 1 views

  • The end is not far away
  • The public interest must prevail over the interest individual, the fair sharing of the wealth created by the world of work override the power of  money.
  • “The press freedom, its  honor and independence againt the power of the State, the power of money and foreign influences.” That is what turns further orders on the press in 1944. Yet that is what is now in danger. The Resistance was calling for “an effective opportunity for all French children to benefit from the most developed education”, without discrimination, yet the reforms proposed in 2008 go against this project. Young teachers, which actions I support, were up to refuse to apply them and they saw their wages cut as a punishment. They were outraged, have “disobeyed” and found these reforms too far from the ideal of the republican school, too much in the service of Page 3 the money society and not enough developing the creative and critical thinking. It is just the base of the social conquests of the Resistance which is now in question (2)
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  • The gap between the poorest and richest has never been so important, and the race for money, the competition has never been so encouraged.
  • We, veterans of resistance movements and fighting forces of Liberated France, we call the younger generations to stand up, to transmit the heritage of the Resistance and its ideals.
  • When I try to understand what caused fascism, what caused the invasion by it and by Vichy, I tell myself that the wealthy, with their selfishness, have been terribly afraid of the Bolshevik revolution. They have been guided by their fears
  • Proust
  • Walter Benjamin
  • I tell young people: Look for a bit, you’ll find.
  • The worst attitude is indifference, saying “I can not do anything, I’m doing my job.
  • I had the chance after Liberation of being involved in drafting the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted by the United Nations, 10 December 1948 in Paris at the Palais de Chaillot.
  • René Cassin was  the one whom we owe the term “universal rights Page 7 and not” international “as suggested by our Anglo-Saxon friends.
  • It is obvious that to be effective today, we must act in a network, take advantage of all means of modern communication.
  • Alas, history gives little examples of people who learn from their own history.
  • Guillaume Apollinaire: “That hope is violent ” not politics
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    Selve teksten (på engelsk) fra Hessel, først udkommet i okt. 2010.
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