Michel Foucault was a French philosopher who looked at institutions that everyone thought were nice and good (schools, hospitals, prisons) and said: “Hold on. Why the fuck do they all look the same?”He observed that t...
Continue reading“The alternative to the free flow of information is not the controlled flow of information. It is the flood.” Adapted from Clay Shirky
Continue readingThe take: “Slavery was not that bad. Slaves were fed and housed. Some slave owners were kind. It was a different time.”Who said it: Various apologists, Lost Cause mythologizers, and a shocking number of American polit...
Continue readingPaulo Freire was a Brazilian educator who taught poor people to read and got exiled for it. Which is not surprising perse with the similar amount of events like that across the globe but this also tells you everything...
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