“Evolving out of man's changing image of himself and his relation to the external environment he sought to control came a new application of the…Zoroastrian concept of progress”

“idea of progress become indistinguishable from the idea of science itself.”

Linear progress 1/4 “As the scientific pursuit became more objective and reductionistic, the images of mankind that it has fostered have also become more fragmented and out of touch with the mythic forces that the pre-scientific ceremonies, rites, and rituals helped man to experience” 2/4

“This tension between the Gnostic understanding of apocalyptic symbolism and that of the Early Church which condemned it as heretical is the essence of what is sometimes called "the Judeo-Chris- tian Problem." Is an apocalyptic Messiah to come (or come again)…”1/6 “and thus grandly save the elect from evil, or is the "Kingdom of the Father" already here within us, within ourselves and our world-as is "Buddha-consciousness" and the "Mother Light"-only waiting to be recognized and fulfilled? The conundrum was inherited also by Islam…” 2/6

“From this perspective, no inborn predispositions can be posited to produce, let alone legitimize, the putatively “natural” status hierarchies and inequalities including in education.”

1/3 “human capabilities and capacities are constituted in and through the process of development – as they are brought into realization in the course of people actively engaging in, contributing to, and transforming collaborative social practices that are culturally mediated…” 2/3

Quote 🧵of Julian Huxley’s “Darwin & The Idea of Evolution” in “A Book That Shook The World” (1958)

“Nineteenth century biologists were mainly interested in origins. Twentieth century biologists are becoming increasingly concerned with possibilities.”

1/17 “The new idea of evolution that is emerging is of a dialectic process, tending to the realization of new possibilities, but constantly checked, in one trend after another, by limitations which it cannot transcend.”

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The re-educative process has to fulfill a task which is…equivalent to a change in culture…re-education means the establishment of a new super-ego -Kurt Lewin “Resolving Social Conflicts” (1948)

“sensitivity training”

#SocialReconstructionists #Brameld

“In the field of education, group dynamics offers…workable techniques by which group-mindedness can be improved” #Brameld (1971) “Patterns of Educational Philosophy”

#SocialReconstructionists

A 🧵 with 20 examples of “Equity” meaning “equal outcome”’

Marin County California HHS :

“Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances and
allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.”

1/20marinhhs.org/sites/default/… George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health :

“Equity recognizes that each person has different circumstances and allocates the exact resources and opportunities needed to reach an equal outcome.”



2/onlinepublichealth.gwu.edu/resources/equi…

#SEL #Religion 🔓 greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/t…




CASEL & other SEL outlets should be flooded with lawsuits, they fear the courts because they are breaking laws regarding the State & religious instruction. It’s clear as day that they are promoting religion both directly & indirectly & Dewey helped provide the language to hide it

“in a state of permanent change and motion”: Becoming

“destruction is an essential part of the creation” : Deconstruct to Reconstruct, “Progress”.

“We”

No worries, though, this definitely has nothing to do w/ totalizing materialist collectivist systems or conflict theories.

“great leap forward” & a part/whole metaphor of sparks/fire, they really can’t help themselves with the collectivist nods.

“The most notable prior model for such a modern "Zero Growth" economy is Nazi Germany” 🧐



“It is impossible to have "Zero Growth" policies beginning today without mass genocide tomorrow.”

What do we think the result of “degrowth” policies will be if “zero growth” is said to be the path to mass genocide?

“One of the chief connecting threads between Steiner’s pre-theosophical intellectual orientation and his mature race theories was the polyvalent theme of evolution, which Steiner came to understand in physical, spiritual, and cosmic terms. The influence of Haeckel’s Monism... 1/4 played a significant role in this process. Incorporating social Darwinist, Lamarckian, and Goethean elements, Haeckel’s theory offered an evolutionary interpretation for a vast array of social and cultural phenomena. The particular variety of evolutionary thought that Steiner...

“our monstrosity: according to Spinoza, God and Nature are equivalent terms.” -MJR

“The monster is essentially a mixture.” - Foucault

Monstrous; “what kind of divinity could ever be material?”-MJR

Pantheism: spirit & matter, God and nature, the “All”, the “One”, pan… “For the feminist philosopher of religion Grace Jantzen, pantheism’s total unsettling of Western thought was precisely its liberating promise.”

Jantzen felt “the only way to collapse this oppressive structure is to for its root.”-SJS 2/

What is Queer?
“Queer can be an identity, theory, or practice. In the most general sense, queer can be thought of as heteronormativity’s antithesis,a defiantly non-normative notion of human social relations that…celebrates…ways in which sex means much more than reproduction”🧵 As an “identity”, to “Be Queer”, “is a personal refusal to adhere to, or identify with, static, essentialist categories such as woman/man, gay/straight, feminine/masculine, and more.” 2/

The “New Rationality”: Herbert Marcuse in his book “Soviet Marxism” (1958)

“Reason is nothing but the rationality of the whole: the uninterrupted functioning and growth of the apparatus.” 1/15 “This society, defined as socialist in terms of Marxian theory, becomes the sole standard of truth and falsehood; there can be no transcendence in thought and action, no individual autonomy because the Nomos of the whole is the true Nomos.” 2/

"Social Reconstructionist Philosophy of Education and George S. Counts-observations on the ideology of indoctrination in sociocritical educational thinking" (2014)#CriticalPedagogy #Indoctrination #MarxistEducation #SocialReconstruction #GeorgeCounts #JohnDewey 🧵w/comments 1/25 "Social Reconstructionism or the Social Reconstructionist Movement developed from the early 1930's as part of the educational philosophical discourse of progressive education." -This philosophy is the precursor to what is called #CritcalPedadogy or #CriticalEducation, today. 2/

"Toward a Transformative Criticality for Democratic Citizenship Education" Critical Thinking vs. #CriticalPedagogy #Indoctrination
critical thinking : pluralist, level-headed, reasonable, political autonomy
Critical pedagogy: solidarity, critique, social justice activism 🧵1/20 "Those favoring critical thinking...aim to produce young people who can make thoughtful, well-substantiated choices about their values and behavior." "they eschew an ideological orientation...in favor of a logical orientation...producing thoughtful...reasonable people." 2/

“The dialectical method…holds that the process of development should be understood not as movement in a circle…a simple repetition of what’s already occurred, but as an onward and upward movement, as a transition from an old…state to a new…state…from the lower to the higher” “dialectics holds that nature is not a state of rest and immobility, stagnation and immutability, but a state of continuous movement and change, of continuous renewal and development, where something is always arising and developing, and something always…dying away.” 2/

In flux

Erich Fromm’s Foreword in 1960 of #EdwardBellamy’s Looking Backward(1888) 🧵

“Few, especially among the younger readers of this book, will realize that Edward Bellamy’s Looking Backwardis one of the most remarkable books ever published in America.” 1/25 Behind only Uncle Tom’s Cabin & Ben-Hur it was the most popular book at the end of 19th century, selling millions of copies across the globe & has been translated to 20+ different languages. But beyond it’s general popularity it had a strong intellectual & emotional impact. 2/

“Organization for the Unorganizable: The Utopia of Atomistic Collectivism”🧵

“For the middle-class readers of Looking Backward, Bellamy’s utopia with its theory of self-socialization of capital offered a collectivist solution tailored to an individualistic psychology” 1/25 Pt.1 In “classical liberal theory,society consisted of a collection of atomized individuals…‘the common interest was only the sum of individual interests’…‘the common welfare was to be attained through the pursuit of each of his individual welfare” 2/

A 🧵of quotes on androgyny & Gnosticism. “The union of the bride with her bridegroom leads to the restoration of androgyny. Through spiritual union male and female will become one, and there will no longer be male and female but rather a unique being.” The first source (1) 1/25 “spiritual sexuality, this concept is completely modified in the mystical union of androgyny. Androgynous union repairs the damage of the separation of male and female, which occurred when the female element fell into matter, according to the myth of Sophia.”(1) 2/

“The New Radicalism”in #BTCOM 1971-“Daniel Bell wrote The End of Ideology and Judith Shklar After Utopia. Scholars agreed that the "radical impulse" and the "utopian imagination" were dead. But the New Left has given the lie to these obituary notices…They want revolutions.” 1/12 “representative manifesto of New Leftism, published in the Berkeley Barb in the late spring of 1969, a coalition of "liberation committees" promised the conversion of Berkeley's schools into training grounds for revolution…the protection and expansion of…"soulful socialism," 2/

The Marxist Pragmatist Sidney Hook was referred to as “Dewey’s bulldog” & was also known for his supposed transition from Communist to Social Democrat. Hook was a teacher at #TheNewSchool for Social Research aka“University in Exile”,which is a main root of the Critical 1/4 …ideology. The New School along with Columbia’s Institute for Social Research, which was The Frankfurt Schools American home, are major contributors to the creation of the Social “Sciences”. SS wasn’t taken over by “Woke” forces recently, it was essentially built by them.2/