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Teddy bears, booty shorts, sandals, cut off jeans, hand claps, crunking, shopping carts … welcome to the school where learning doesn’t have to be just about books.
This year’s welcome week at the University of North Carolina was outsourced to a host of consumer companies, including the mass wholesaler SuperTarget. The box store giant organized a fleet of buses to take freshmen on a midnight shopping frenzy in their store as the week’s grand finale. The entire event was officially chaperoned by the vice chancellor of the university, who also acted as Target’s tour guide for the evening. The New York Times also reported that American Eagle Outfitters hired popular sophomores on the same campus, ideally those with significant online social network presences (500+ friends), to be brand ambassadors. Their job during the week was to recruit their friends into volunteer moving squads, all wearing gift AE swag, to help new students carry their belongings into their dorms and to give a warm welcome on behalf of American Eagle.
On a more optimistic day, I would tell you that the students involved in this fiasco are able to identify the not-so-subtle-manipulation at work, and that if a party isn’t in the school budget, then why not let SuperTarget or Walmart or Nike throw a bash; or that free duds from a company desperate for market share is a fair trade for a poor students’ time. On a more realistic day, I would tell you that this cohort is the same one that American sociologists are pointing to as the empty-headed Icarus generation now beginning to fly.
Christian Smith and his colleagues at Notre Dame University recently produced a study Lost in Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood which revealed that the majority of America’s young adults on campus navigate ethical propositions based only on time, feeling, benefit and desire. Principles such as honor, valor, virtue, morality, God, chivalry, familial piety, ideas that dominated the Western mindset well into the 20th century, were non-factors. Most surprising to them the Times writes is that participants in the study were not at all bothered by “rabid consumerism” and lacked even the basic language to formulate ethical queries about consumerism. To them the market was a benign and neutral reality.
The implications of this objective ethical free-fall are contested and the debate flounders between pragmatic optimism and cautious realism. It isn’t that bad to have finally chased superstition, pre-judgment, and patriarchal precepts to the ends of the earth. On the downside, the trend points to the emergence of ethical silo’s where moral considerations – like should I care about the environment or should I help a stranger or should I buy this product – are nudged to the periphery of the soul in the same way that religion and philosophy have been pushed over the course of the 20th and 21st centuries, out of sight, out of mind.
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The article says: "Principles
The article says: "Principles such as honor, valor, virtue, morality, God, chivalry, familial piety, ideas that dominated the Western mindset well into the 20th century, were non-factors". I wonder, what kind of future, the writer has in mind for the future of humanity?
I hope it's not the French porn in everything!!
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/french-go-porn-in-sports/
PLEASE PLEASE
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE....Adusters, liberals, conservatives, quasi conservative independents, green party people, anarchists, stupid people, moderates....PLEASE FOR LOVE OF GOD realize this:
Why can't anyone discuss the issue with corporate greed (not just Wall St) with respect to W-A-G-E-S? Why are so many in the Occupy movements clueless? If interested, please check out my experience at Occupy Wall St and Micheal Moore..etc at youtube.com/debisisrobustus.
Tax cuts or no tax cuts, 40 percent tax or 90 percent tax on anyone is NOT GOING TO HELP INCREASE THE FEDERAL MINIMUM WAGE. If corporations paid less in tax so long as the minimum wage went up to a liveable wage...what is so bad about that? And why should anyone pay more than 30 or 40 percent, it's not fair for anyone. And all this rhetoric about how people are being sold out and banks being bailed out, fine....but if you this the bulk of the issue with respect to income inequality, you are very in the dark and pretty naive. Seriously, it's the wages.
Who is suggesting a 90% tax
Who is suggesting a 90% tax rate? Who is suggesting 40%? Do facts matter in your analysis, or are you simply spouting absurdities? Obama would like to raise the rate paid by the top bracket from 35% to 38%. Is that the kind of increase that will leave millionaires penniless? Yes, an increase in the minimum wage is also vitally important, but this is not an either/or question.
True dat. Please do include
True dat. Please do include that understanding in your battle comrades. A very good point about taxes possible being secondary to the wage/income issue. Plus it is sans the negative connotations of taxes as being "wealth redistribution"... It does run into the same problem(s) with so called libertarian/conservative thinking that minimum wages/taxes are "social engineering" though, but who cares! Society is to be designed/constructed anyways so it's not much of a counter point. There are many things to remember, living wages is one of them. CHEERS COMRADES!
God is not a principle,
God is not a principle, merely a delusion. Honor, valor, virtue, morality, chivalry,and familial piety I can get behind, each to varying degrees. Chivalry is a quaint, archaic, romantic notion, but some of its tenets are commenable. Virtue is a slightly awkward one since good and evil are points of view, rather relativistic and arguably black and white in a world full of shades of grey. Honor is another tricky one since it can be twisted into something quite vile, such as killing to protect family honor. Still having principals is better than having none.
Whoops, crap. Meant
Whoops, crap. Meant "principles" not principals. :-)
I think that is what we are
I think that is what we are looking for. A society where business and business concerns are made least and last. If that's our goal we can make it happen. We will have to change some laws and the media but it can be done and should be done. No more sponsored news casts especially those starting off with the useless and insulting DJIA.
Another goal seems to be shutting down Goldman Sachs. It seems the intent may be to shut it permanently. That's fine. Two strategies seem obvious. Work to get its corporate charter revoked in all 50 states and work to get people to stop using its products and divest its stock. Also boycott and make it a huge liability for any politician to take Goldman money or see its lobbyists- this can be found through research. Constantly point out and call attention to the whereabouts and doings of its directors and officers relative to other firms and organizations and shame those outfits for association. Seek the legitimate prosecution of Goldman and its shadowy supporters. Any firm or organization with interlocking boards etc. with Goldman should suffer under its taint.
It seems we are hearing more about business than ever at a time when under Bush the US shuttered 55000 manufacturing plants. So much for job creators they are more like job bull shiters.
After shutting Goldman we can get real economic measure that measure the real economy that effects everyday people instead of the fake one fattens rich parasites. We can then focus closing the private banking racket with constitutional amendments etc.
Republicans created this mess
Republicans created this mess democrats continued it they all are in kahoots with bankesters and zionists. “You’re on your own” economics" which has been a critique progressives have been leveling since Theodore Roosevelt’s day is perpetuated by a crony government and justices. But while that may be a plausible summary of the policies that have been hurting middle-class Americans for decades now, it doesn’t really capture the policies that contributed to the financial crisis. The financial crisis wasn’t primarily about rampant individualism. If it had been, the Wall Street bankesters and who gambled away billions would have, as individuals, paid the price. Instead, after profiting individually when the market went up, they forced the rest of the country to save them when the market went down. The financial crisis was an example of what happens when the richest Americans are allowed to practice “you’re on your own” economics when it suits them but demand that everyone else bail them out when it doesn’t. You are on your own economics is a war against minorities inside USA. This war is coupled with hiking of utility prices, gas, and food in order to wipe out middle class and enable the corrupt greedy richest Americans to recruit from this base for their wars abroad. Send your own kids to war. Prosecute the criminals who have played us all. End hidden structural racism around the world. Stop the lie machine.
YES - "Republicans created
YES - "Republicans created this mess democrats continued it they all are in kahoots with bankesters and zionists".
However, there is one Republican, Rep. Ron Paul, who is wants to change past's mistakes. He is with OWS and against giving billions of dollars of military aid each year to Israel. He has also pledged to save hundreds of billions of dollars by closing US occupation in Afghanistan and Iraq. He is also against no Zionist wars against Syria, Pakistan, Lebanon, Iran and Somalia. That's why the Zionist Lobby is running a smearing campaign against Ron Paul.
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2011/12/10/ron-paul-bush-boys-were-happy-af...
Paul seems to have part of it
Paul seems to have part of it right. He has the part right about people being able to do what they want as long as it doesn't hurt others but he seems weaker on the notion that we rise together. Both strands are needed. Both parties are bad but Paul should switch parties. Paul at least doesn't come across as paid for but he would eliminate the safety net. The contradiction there is I see no purpose in being a part of this nation or participating in it if I don't get something out of it and the safety net is the primary good. Defense for instance is simply a part of that net but it can't be the only part of it left as Paul would likely have it.
It is truly sad that young
It is truly sad that young adults do not have the morals and values that lay embedded in the minds and hearts of previous generations. However, I blame this on technology and lack of personal communication, not consumerism. If anything, we need consumerism. How else will we drag ourselves out of this dreadful economy?
And as for Occupy, if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. The so-called 1% is not a monarchy. A person does not become rich overnight. It takes hard work and much perseverance to live the American dream. One only needs a good education, talent, and work experience to climb up the career ladder of success past the "99%" of ragged freeloaders to a kingdom of riches. Do we want to be a communist country? If we care about ourselves and our country, we will work hard and stop complaining.
Is that you, Horatio Alger? I
Is that you, Horatio Alger?
I will take your wonderful advice and go buy as much useless crap as possible, spend 100k on a pointless education, put my nose to the grindstone, never dissent and prat to ascend to the coveted 1% so we can finally beat those nasty reds. I hear they even put people in gulags and have the politburo eavesdropping on the citizenry. Not in my God Blessed America!
Down with the commies!
I'm a student at a large U.S.
I'm a student at a large U.S. University right now. We have a similar thing every year. They call it the "Target Run." I saw it occur a couple of years ago. It was quite frightening.
"The struggle for definition
"The struggle for definition is veritably the struggle for life itself. In the typical Western two men fight desperately for the possession of a gun that has been thrown to the ground: whoever reaches the weapon first shoots and lives; his adversary is shot and dies. In ordinary life, the struggle is not for guns but for words; whoever first defines the situation is the victor; his adversary, the victim. For example, in the family, husband and wife, mother and child do not get along; who defines whom as troublesome or mentally sick?...[the one] who first seizes the word imposes reality on the other; [the one] who defines thus dominates and lives; and [the one] who is defined is subjugated and may be killed."
We have a patronage society because our minds are filled with sponsored speech. If we don't want sponsored lives anymore we have to undermine and completely eliminate that process. People must control their own narrative and plot and not have it dictated to them.
Most of Universities in both
Most of Universities in both the US and Canada are controlled by the same lobby groups which control the governments.
For example, last year, Canada’s oldest academic institution, the University of Toronto, came under fire for awarding a Master’s degree to a Jew female student Jennifer Peto – for her thesis which claims that the Jews practice racism against non-Jewish communities.....
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/u-of-t-under-fire-for-thesis-on-...
Let us face it Americans you
Let us face it Americans you are born to shop and consume yet the majority of you are predestined to die young, and poor in some ghetto in your inner cities most likely from heart disease or some illness associated with poor nutrition, poor working conditions and lack of proper medical care because the 3 jobs you work so hard at do not even provide you proper health care. You are thrown peanuts for your hard work while the 1 % are doing lines of Bolivian coke of a Ukrainian hookers ass, handing out 10 million dollar bonus for bankrupting companies your tax dollars funded . I ask you how many home owners has your government bailed out? How many small business have they bailed out?
Your lives have been reduced to consumption. They, your government, dangles the carrot of “freedom” in your face to keep you pulling the weight of big corporations and their failed system, yet freedom is only appealing to the enslaved. Think about that. You are no more than a social security number, that is expected to generate so many tax, interest, and profit dollars in your life time to make the rich even richer and the powerful even more powerful. Indeed The government and big business have done an excellent job at creating the perfect sty for the mindless consumption bread automatons to practice “rabid consumerism” .
Those of you who do speak out against the status-quo are beaten arrested, ridiculed and even killed by the cooperate immune system which eradicates any dissidence that may pose a threat. Those of you who take action are labeled terrorists and enemies of the state by your government who has been reduced to nothing but a pawn by big business. “For the people buy the people”, I do not think so…..For the 1% and F#ck The People” is more like it.
So shop until you drop you mindless consumption bread automatons. Because you all will be dropping sooner than later. Power to the People!! Occupy !!
Yep. The youth today don't
Yep. The youth today don't care about anything, they don't see caring about things as being "cool" and it's ALL ABOUT CUSTOMIZATION. Everything is their personal playlist, their personal video page, their personal blog, they want everyone interested in them but they don't want to reciprocate that interest and be interested in anyone else.
Btw thank you for turning the captcha back on because the comments were being overloaded by propagandists, cowards, and subordinates to power.
yep, its today's youth. prior
yep, its today's youth. prior generations really cared, look at the world we created for them. for shame, youth of today. i don't know why you've turned out the way you have, youth, but it sure wasn't because of me. i'm certain that i am in no way responsible. i care. or at least i talk everlastingly about caring.
The McCain Levine bill seems
The McCain Levine bill seems a lot like an attempt to perpetuate the 911 fraud and more fraud like it and as people like Ron Paul say it seems to enable the US government to assassinate US citizens at will and with impunity.
Think of how absolutely backward everything was about 911.
1. They can't follow FISA because they want to be able to spy on their political opponents.
2. They issue 50000 gag orders to shut people up about 911 and want to be able to punish whistle blowers- just like the present state department thinking it can punish foreign citizens who non violently
provide information to the American people that they would otherwise want to know as in the case of Julian Assange.
3. They disappear people to secret prisons and they hold people outside of US courts so their scam won't come to light.
4. They refuse to investigate 911
5. They use 911 to lie us into an illegal war and violate the rules for highest crimes against humanity under Nuremberg.
6. They engage in torture and try to justify torture shredding the UCMJ.
7. They terror and fear monger like crazy and they completely consolidate the media and focus it outward.
8. With this new act they want to be able to perpetuate the frauds with non available suspect games and non transparency and more lies.
9. They weakened Habeaus Corpus because they want to be able to plant evidence and make it easier to disappear people.
9. It shows they are the terrorists.
My concern is these idiots that we should be investigating and prosecuting are undermining the US government to such an extent that it will trigger a violent uprising in furious response to to what will be seen as absolute corruption and injustice and a state that exists to inflict these a sadistic state trying to throw us back into the dark ages.
Early this year, the BBC
Early this year, the BBC tried to convince the five ’9/11 deniers’ with dumb experiments with blocks of legos and eggs to prove that WTC was indeed destroyed as result of the impact of the two hijacked planes and not the powerful explosives planted inside the buildings. However, no plane hit the WTC7. No evidence to prove BBC’s point of view except an agitated presenter who seems pissed-off everytime his theory was questioned.
Everything went fine and dandy, until one of the participants, Emily Church, the ‘mute’ one, decided to pull-down BBC’s Israeli hasbara pants.
Firstly, I must tip my hat to them, they did a wonderful editing job. Throughout my time on the show I asked question after question, I asked every single person we met whether they believed the official story to be true and the vast majority of them said no. Ask yourselves this question, why has the footage of us meeting Tom Owen, a voice analyst who worked on the Osama Bin Laden ‘confession’ tapes, been cut completely? There is a simple answer, because he told us not to believe the official report. Why? Because we aren’t in the ‘need-to-know’ category, his words, not mine. Throughout our entire meeting with Tom Owen it was pretty much clear that the director of the show wasn’t happy with his take, like most of our meetings with ‘experts’ she would try and steer the conversation in a direction that would better fit her hit piece......
http://rehmat1.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/sept-11-and-bbcs-conspiracy-road...
90% of Germans polled thought
90% of Germans polled thought the US government committed 911. Imagine if 9 out of 10 Americans thought Germany knocked down a couple buildings in order to justify illegal invasions and occupations. I'd say its world consensus that the US government knocked down the trade centers and trying to turn it into a cheap dogmatic religion crucifixion style won't change that.
The BBC announcing the fall of building 7 a minute too early and catching it on live TV either makes them complicit or has them tipping us off or both. The irony is they hit the big Wall Street buildings and then 10 years later we get OWS. I'd say a lot of this is a response to what happened in the LA riots. 10 years from the riots to 911 and then another decade to OWS. Its the same issue in all of these people are tired of being exploited under things like wage slavery and want the US for instance to live up to its rhetoric and even do better than the rhetoric so far. For instance the US only has about half of a constitution such as it. Protections from the state very weakened as they are but if there were protections from private money the state might be in better shape and so might the world but even on our dejure paper we were there.
Its not like the protesters
Its not like the protesters are committing the treason, the protesters are just doing their civic duty, why aren't they arresting the lobbyists?
If we want to end exploitationism and holocaust inducing capitalism we have to focus on getting rid of sponsorship based media and speech mechanisms..
For about $25 a month one can now get instant anywhere ad free access to a large and increasing library of: games, movies, music, books. Soon companies will be providing the same under a single fee and soon after that the ISP will be bundled in. The crucial thing is that this remains a competitive field to keep it ad free to dry up the sponsors based media which makes the lobbying possible which leads to capture. To do that firms have to refuse to accept agency nonsense on the back end of these bundled subscriptions.
"For about $25 a
"For about $25 a month..."
Can you elaborate?
When is it okay to Shoot
When is it okay to Shoot Cops? Shooting Cops by Larken Rose http://freedividual.com/2011/12/10/shooting-cops-by-larken-rose/
Is happiness a warm gun?
Is happiness a warm gun?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-b7qaSxuZUg
Thank you so much!
Thank you so much!