[MD] conspiracy theories

[gav]

hey ham,
don't remember saying that but hey i pretty much agree
with it anyway.
i will check out the essay.

literature is one of the big MISSING pieces of the
eduactional puzzle, for it is literature that, more
than anything, is the link between the intellectual
and the dynamic i believe. hey i guess bob would
agree!

so if i am close to the mark then it is key that high
school and uni focus on great works of literature. for
it is these, rather than essays and textbooks, that
have most evolutionary power.

so i will start the ball rolling with:
ZAMM and Lila
anything by ernest hemingway
unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera
crime and punishment dostoevsky
anything by kafka 
eyeless in gaza; point counterpoint; island; aldous
huxley
on the road; dharma bums jack kerouac
the sleepwalkers hermann broch
madame bovary gustave flaubert
catcher in the rye jd salinger
the ragged trousered philanthropists robert tressel
the picture of dorian gray oscar wilde
steppenwolf, glass bead game hermann hesse
faust goethe
100 years of solitude; love and other demons garcia
marquez
dirt music tim winton
jitterbug perfume tom robbins
lord of the rings tolkien
mysteries knut hamsen
one flew over the cuckoo's nest kesey
trainspotting, porno, glue irvine welsh
catch 22 joseph heller
tropic of cancer henry miller
the fall, le premier homme camus

anyone care to join in?



--- Ham Priday <hampday1 at verizon.net> wrote:

> 
> Hi Laramie, Gav, and interested readers -- 
> 
> 
> [Gav said]:
> > All I'm willing to submit at this point is that we
> are
> > currently facing a threat to civil liberties
> previously
> > unimagined.  Anyone who really poses a threat to
> > institutional dominance is in for a surprise. 
> Reason
> > and rationality have become absolute outlaws.
> 
> [Laramie said]:
> > Ham noted some time ago that almost NO ONE
> > today holding a position of prominence in society
> > is advocating individualism. That's a fact worth
> > thinking about.
> 
> Thanks for the mention, Laramie.  Although I don't
> recall the specific
> comment, I'll take credit for it.  And while I'm
> generally not a conspiracy
> theorist, the Warren Commission report on JFK's
> assassination still seems
> flawed to me, especially considering that Oswald
> never had an opportunity to
> present his story for the record, and sharpshooters
> haven't been able to
> duplicate the alleged "single-assassin" shot under
> identical conditions.
> 
> You make a valid point about the threat of
> "institutional dominance".
> Nowhere is this more apparent than in the
> institutions of higher learning
> where more than 80% of the History, English,
> Philosophy, and Social Studies
> professors list themselves as progressive liberals. 
> (A conspiracy?)  This
> intellectual environment produces teachers,
> journalists, sociologists,
> business leaders, and politicians with a distinctly
> anti-individualist
> perspective.  We see its affects starting in
> elementary school where
> children are  systematically indoctrinated to the
> "humanistic" ideology of
> multiculturalism.  According to this ideology, there
> is no "right" or
> "wrong", and even the most heinous criminal acts are
> justifiable, depending
> on one's "cultural background".  Instead of
> presenting the literary works of
> our culture as an introduction to moral values, they
> are used to demonstrate
> the relativity of truth and justice.  With
> everything from the Bible to the
> U.S. Constitution open to such cynicism and
> questioning, how can this
> generation's adults be expected to make decisions
> that will benefit the
> future of their society?
> 
> Coincidently, I happen to be running a 1998 essay by
> Christina Hoff Sommers
> on the Values Page
> (www.essentialism.net/balance.htm) this week.  Dr.
> Sommers is a philosophy professor with first-hand
> experience of what she
> calls the "moral illiteracy" of our nation's youth,
> as well as some
> suggested cures for this malady.  I think you, Gav,
> and anyone else who
> feels threatened by institutional dominance will be
> interested in what she
> has to say.
> 
> Thanks for the opportunity,
> -- Ham
> 
> 
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