Behold Bentham’s Panopticon. Jeremy Bentham, an English philosopher and social theorist in the mid-1700s, invented a social control mechanism that would become a comprehensive symbol for modern authority and discipline in the western world: a prison system called the Panopticon. The basic principle for the design, which Bentham first completed in 1785, was to monitor the...Read More
Try teaching a child today the nobility of humility or explaining why self-aggrandizement and bragging aren’t conducive to a brave and productive soul. Try all of that with social media. Try explaining to a young woman that taking bathroom mirror selfies is depravity writ large.
For over a year and a quarter through processes we’ll never understand and through systems of thinking incomprehensible, we delivered psychic systematic damage to our school-age children profound and permanent. Let me put it this way, you have no idea how screwed up we made them.
Social media provide many young women with the belief that they are the first to ever give birth. It never happened before them. Every pain and humorous observation, everything they experience happened to them and only them for the first time with their first pregnancy.
I’ll let you love everyone and celebrate the human spirit. Have at it. As for me there isn’t a day that goes by when I am not profoundly reminded of how horrible and terrible and brutal human beings are. Where all of this goodness is, I’m still looking.
We love to pretend we care. And we love to pretend we care through grand symbolism. Anything that doesn’t require actual physical tedious hands-on work. Just give us buttons and hashtags and fun and vacations and days off and barbecues and anything that requires no heavy lifting.
When you celebrate an end to slavery or an end of slavery to what specifically are you referring? Because slavery is not by any stretch of the imagination abolished worldwide.
