The New Discourses Podcast with James Lindsay, Episode 88
Critical Education Theory Series, Part 19
This episode of the New Discourses Podcast continues a long miniseries exploring Paulo Freire’s landmark 1985 book The Politics of Education: Culture, Power, and Liberation, and it is embedded in the broader Critical Education Theory series. In the previous part, James Lindsay presented the ideas in the eighth chapter of that book, in which Freire describes “The Process of Political Literacy” and outlines a sweeping program for education as a means to remake Man himself. The previous parts of this series, covering the earlier chapters of the book can be found here, here, here, here, here, and here.
In this episode, James takes up the ninth chapter of The Politics of Education, wherein Freire describes what he calls “Humanistic Education,” as that term is meant by Karl Marx Building on the themes of the previous two chapters (education for conscientization and education as a process of political literacy), this chapter clarifies how Paulo Freire enabled the theft of education from all potential learners for the purposes of Marxism. It’s an incredible crime against humanity. Join him to understand how Freire enabled the theft of education from our society and our children.
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You really bring their puposefully obtuse semantics , down to a leval so we get what they are trying to say .
They are like shallow petty used car sales men , pushing a flawed cheap peice of junk , looking for suckers who are fooled by their you are a victom pie in the sky utopia.
Yeah , its going to tske a lot of work pulling it out of the system , brick by brick .
James , forget tweeterville , it was mud fest , good practice how to deal with down and dirty , now , you can push for bigger confrontations , we need you on the front line .
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“Hidden History” by Docherty and Macgregor has some good documentation re British guidance of European history, 1905-1914.
Reviewed at:
https://www.maier-files.com/hidden-history/ (Kindly note that the site’s page colors, which are similar to this page, are not as readable as those at https://thehistoryherald.com/History-Book-Reviews/hidden-history-the-secret-origins-of-the-first-world-war-gerry-docherty-and-jim-macgregor/ ).
A similarly well-documented pattern in recent Russian politics is given by David Satter in this interview, which summarizes his book “The Less You Know, the Better You Sleep”: https://www.businessinsider.com/how-the-1999-russian-apartment-bombings-led-to-putins-rise–to-power-2018-3 .
Given the unprecedented skipping over subpoenas directly to a chilling raid of suspected classified DJT documents, which raid potentially provokes a J6-type push-back by so-called “enemies of the State,” the above documentation of patterns of control may provide a connection between ideological deconstruction and covertly managed political praxis.
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You could put the blame on John Dewey (or better yet Jean-Jacques Rousseau)!
https://janetakesonhistory.org/2020/07/24/the-not-so-good-old-days-in-education/