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The Go-Nowhere Generation - NYTimes.com
All this turns American history on its head. We are a nation of movers and shakers. Pilgrims leapt onto leaky boats to get here. The Lost Generation chased Hemingway and Gertrude Stein to Paris. The Greatest Generation signed up to ship out to fight Nazis in Germany or the Japanese imperial forces in the Pacific. The ’60s kids joined the Peace Corps.

But Generation Y has become Generation Why Bother. The Great Recession and the still weak economy make the trend toward risk aversion worse.

“Young people raised during recessions end up less entrepreneurial and less willing to leave home because they believe that luck counts more than effort,” said Paola Giuliano, an economist at U.C.L.A.’s Anderson School of Management.
culture  economy  future  society 
11 weeks ago by mwfogleman
Outsider art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Those works created from solitude and from pure and authentic creative impulses – where the worries of competition, acclaim and social promotion do not interfere – are, because of these very facts, more precious than the productions of professionals. After a certain familiarity with these flourishings of an exalted feverishness, lived so fully and so intensely by their authors, we cannot avoid the feeling that in relation to these works, cultural art in its entirety appears to be the game of a futile society, a fallacious parade." - Jean Dubuffet. Place à l'incivisme (Make way for Incivism). Art and Text no.27 (December 1987 - February 1988). p.36 Dubuffet's writing on art brut was the subject of a noted program at the Art Club of Chicago in the early 1950s.
alternative  art  culture  illustration  wikipedia 
december 2011 by mwfogleman
Drinking the Kool-Aid: A Survivor Remembers Jim Jones - Jennie Rothenberg Gritz - National - The Atlantic
How do you feel when you hear people casually use the phrase "drink the Kool-Aid" -- as in, "I drank the Kool-Aid. I love everything Lady Gaga does"?

It makes me shudder. I know it's part of the culture now and I shouldn't be so sensitive to it. But Jonestown was an important part of American history, and it's been marginalized. We have to ask ourselves, why did 918 people leave this country and go with Jim Jones to Guyana? That's a big question. Why did this group feel they'd rather live in a jungle than in San Francisco, Oakland, Atlanta, wherever they were living?

There's a lot of disagreement over the word "cult." How would you define it?

A cult is when you aren't allowed to see your friends or family. I'm not talking about a retreat, or two weeks at a spa. I'm talking about total isolation -- someone takes all your money and brings you to a place where there's no communication, or if there is you aren't allowed to use it. Those are the lessons I took from Jonestown, and that's the message I think the American people should take from it. Trust your gut and don't give up your liberties.
cults  america  culture  history 
november 2011 by mwfogleman
New School: How the Web Liberalized Liberal Arts Education | GOOD
This is where neo-education steps in—not necessarily as a substitute for a university degree, at least not at this point, but as a necessary filler for the many gaps in today’s higher education, an essential exercise in flexing our inherent human curiosity about the world before it atrophies into the narrow scope of skill and vision that the original liberal arts model aimed to eradicate in the first place. In an age driven by the cross-pollination of ideas, viewpoints, and disciplines, it is only through such indiscriminate curiosity and exploration that we can truly liberalize our collective future.
education  web2.0  academia  thought  ted  technology  ideas  university  activism  internet  society  liberalarts  liberal  teaching  culture  blog  socialmedia  web  autodidactism  autodidactism2010 
november 2009 by mwfogleman
Gene Callahan, The Right to Walk Away (2003)
I believe the recognition of a right to secession is the single greatest advance toward liberty that is within our grasp. Because many people today acknowledge the right to self-governance, persuading them to acknowledge the right to secession only entails making explicit the logical implication of values that they already hold.

Furthermore, the abolition movement offers us an historical precedent for the approach I suggest. Rather than engage in endless disputes among themselves, the abolitionists united behind a single, simple principle: human slavery is wrong.

Similarly, libertarians, of whatever stripe, today might agree that the bondage of individuals to a state that they had no say in choosing is wrong. Whatever particular laws we advocate, we could unite behind the idea that human freedom is advanced when each person can choose the body of law under which he wishes to live.
politics  culture  interesting  article  government  anarchism  liberty 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
SourceWatch - SourceWatch
Welcome to SourceWatch—your guide to the names behind the news. SourceWatch is a collaborative project of the Center for Media and Democracy to produce a directory of the people, organizations and issues shaping the public agenda. A primary purpose of SourceWatch is documenting the PR and propaganda activities of public relations firms and public relations professionals engaged in managing and manipulating public perception, opinion and policy. SourceWatch also includes profiles on think tanks, industry-funded organizations and industry-friendly experts that work to influence public opinion and public policy on behalf of corporations, governments and special interests. Over time, SourceWatch has broadened to include others involved in public debates including media outlets, journalists, government agencies, activists and nongovernmental organizations. Unlike some other wikis, SourceWatch has a policy of strict referencing, and is overseen by a paid editor.
politics  reference  culture  tools  business  blog  web2.0  news  wiki  activism  research  economics  media  government  journalism  propaganda  watchdog  sourcewatch  progressive  democracy  information  blogs  policy  resources  analysis  alternative  search  database  pr 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Regina Lynn's Sex Drive: Internet Pushes Polyamory to Its 'Tipping Point'
"We need to get away from the idea that there's only one right way to live," Veaux says. "That idea has arguably caused more destruction and more damage to more societies over history than any other single idea you can name."
technology  organization  identity  behavior  poly  wired.com  love  marriage  society  internet  culture  wired  polyamory  online  interesting  freedom  commentary  sex  article  articles  relationships  social 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Marriage, Cohabitation, and Kids - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com
Take two children, one growing up with married parents in the United States, and one growing up with unmarried parents in Sweden; which child has the higher likelihood of seeing his parents’ relationship break up? Answer: the American kid, because children living with married parents in the United States have a higher probability of experiencing a breakup than do children living with unmarried parents in Sweden. That’s how high our breakup rates are.
culture  children  usa  kids  relationships  sociology  marriage  freakonomics  sweden 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Zine Discourse
“[A friend of my neighbor] asked what a zine was and I gave her a description that was worthy of Webster’s and then started showing her various zines. … She looked at [my current masterpiece] briefly and said ‘So a zine is like a photocopied blog.’”[1] Matt Holdaway

“Well, in the simplest of terms she's probably right, but in the simplest of terms I could say ‘A cat is like a dog except cats meow, shit in a box and don't hump your leg.’ and be equally correct.”[2] Eric Lyden
culture  tech  zines  zine  blogs 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
zinelibrary.info | revolution in the streets!
Welcome to ZineLibrary.info. Here you will find hundreds of radical zines ready to print. You can also upload zines to the site ( zines with file sizes bigger than 7mb can be uploaded to http://indymedia.org and linked here). Feel free to comment and contribute.
politics  activism  libraries  zines  zine  activist  pdf  art  reference  library  alternative  online  culture  anarchist  diy  writing  academic  media  anarchism  literature  illustration  anarchy  reading 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - ChronicleReview.com
So I won't be spending the month of April toasting 50 years of the overopinionated and underinformed little book that put so many people in this unhappy state of grammatical angst. I've spent too much of my scholarly life studying English grammar in a serious way. English syntax is a deep and interesting subject. It is much too important to be reduced to a bunch of trivial don't-do-this prescriptions by a pair of idiosyncratic bumblers who can't even tell when they've broken their own misbegotten rules.
reference  education  books  writing  culture  history  language  english  review  linguistics  style  criticism  grammar  composition  strunk 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
What Do Women Want? - Discovering What Ignites Female Desire - NYTimes.com
“I feel like a pioneer at the edge of a giant forest,” Chivers said, describing her ambition to understand the workings of women’s arousal and desire. “There’s a path leading in, but it isn’t much.” She sees herself, she explained, as part of an emerging “critical mass” of female sexologists starting to make their way into those woods. These researchers and clinicians are consumed by the sexual problem Sigmund Freud posed to one of his female disciples almost a century ago: “The great question that has never been answered and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my 30 years of research into the feminine soul, is, What does a woman want?”
culture  psychology  interesting  science  life  article  research  sexuality  gender  women  sex  feminism  porn  nyt  anthropology  articles  nytimes  2009 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
Human evolution and music | Why music? | The Economist
The truth, of course, is that nobody yet knows why people respond to music. But, when the carol singers come calling, whether the emotion they induce is joy or pain, you may rest assured that science is trying to work out why.
culture  psychology  interesting  science  article  news  economist  music  nature  sex  singing  society  anthropology  economy  brain  neuroscience  articles  future  evolution  research  human  biology 
april 2009 by mwfogleman
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