Good Times on Campus
Students at the University of North Carolina get down and boogie with the SuperTarget mascot at a midnight shopping spree officially endorsed by the school's top brass.
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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McCain Levine b...
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.
McCain Levine b...
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.
Anonymous
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-roadtrip/
Anonymous
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-roadtrip/
90%
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.
90%
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.
Anonymous
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.
Anonymous
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.
Anonymous1
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.
Anonymous1
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.
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