Comments by Terry Elliott

Give three explanations for the metaphors in the text then create a found poem related to the metaphor you explained.

Thu, 25 May 2023 09:49:24 +0800

1. Mad Scientist: The mad scientist metaphor evokes an image of someone who is overly involved and heavily invested in their work, perhaps to the point where they are seen as not quite sane or normal. 2. Dumb Idea: The dumb idea metaphor suggests that the idea is so foolish that it is almost unthinkable and far from being realistic or feasible. 3. Obsessive Language Approach: The obsessive language approach metaphor highlights the idea that the person in question is so focused and so intense in their language that it almost has an air of obsession. Found Poem: Mad Scientist, intense and invested; Dumb Idea, foolish and dreaming; Obsessive Language Approach, intense and devoted. Able minds creating a work of art, Sacrificing sanity to unlock the key; Undertaking work too bold for heart.

There are several metaphors here mad scientist, dumb idea, obsessive language approach, strange interaction.

Thu, 25 May 2023 09:49:24 +0800

What analog sensations have you experienced?

Thu, 18 May 2023 09:39:40 +0800

From the sensuousness of sliding a finger down a shelf of books to the satisfaction of closing a reference book, to the joy and surprise of unexpected connections made through reading for pleasure.

Oh, the plastic whirr of the carousel

Thu, 18 May 2023 09:39:40 +0800

There are so many analog haptic sensations from my life in libraries.Where are the haptics of digital life.

Why are white folks so afraid of the n-word?

Wed, 17 May 2023 19:32:11 +0800

As a high school senior in a major metropolitan Eastern city, you may be able to approach this text with a unique perspective and gain insights into how language can shape our world.

What emotional and intellectual filters do readers bring to the n-word?

Wed, 17 May 2023 19:32:11 +0800

The first sentence is important, as it shows how readers approach the term with differing views. The second sentence is important, as it highlights the use of a derogatory term within a context of expressing strong sentiment. To understand this text more deeply, it is important to be aware of the history of the term “n-word” and its associated racism and the current use of the word in various settings. Additionally, it is important to understand how language can both shape and reflect culture, as well as the power that language holds to perpetuate stereotypes and injustices. Being knowledgeable of the various meanings of the term “n-word”, as well as the emotions that accompany it, would be beneficial for understanding this text. I invite you to re-read the text and consider how its meaning and interpretation may differ between different readers; to reflect on what this reveals about the power of language, and to think about what implications such differences may have for society as a whole.

origins of Ukraine crisis

Fri, 04 Mar 2022 22:52:08 +0800

This is the main stream media narrative. There are others one of which claims that the U.S. through NATO has pushed the conflict as if we were still in a cold war and trying to 'contain' the Soviet empire. I have read reports that 14,000 civilians in Donbask have been killed by missile attacks and snipers from 2015-now. That is, killed by the establishment Ukranian government and it's tip of the spear, the Azov Battalion.

Inert ideas

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 21:10:35 +0800

Here is an excerpt from Alfred North Whitehead that is at the heart of education: I appeal to you, as practical teachers. With good discipline, it is always possible to pump into the minds of a class a certain quantity of inert knowledge. You take a text-book and make them learn it. So far, so good. The child then knows how to solve a quadratic equation. But what is the point of teaching a child to solve a quadratic equation? There is a traditional answer to this question. It runs thus: The mind is an instrument, you first sharpen it, and then use it; the acquisition of the power of solving a quadratic equation is part of the process of sharpening the mind. Now there is just enough truth in this answer to have made it live through the ages. But for all its halftruth, it embodies a radical error which bids fair to stifle the genius of the modern world. I do not know who was first responsible for this analogy of the mind to a dead instrument. For aught I know, it may have been one of the seven wise men of Greece, or a committee of the whole lot of them. Whoever was the originator, there can be no doubt of the authority which it has acquired by the continuous approval bestowed upon it by eminent persons. But whatever its weight of authority, whatever the high approval which it can quote, I have no hesitation in denouncing it as one of the most fatal, erroneous, and dangerous conceptions ever introduced into the theory of education. The mind is never passive; it is a perpetual activity, delicate, receptive, responsive to stimulus. You cannot postpone its life until you have sharpened it. Whatever interest attaches to your subject-matter must be evoked here and now; whatever powers you are strengthening in the pupil, must be exercised here and now; whatever possibilities of mental life your teaching should impart, must be exhibited here and now. That is the golden rule of education, and a very difficult rule to follow."

Other resources

Thu, 25 Nov 2021 21:01:38 +0800

If you haven't already, you need to read Matthew Dicks', Storyworthy. He has a different and very useable take on what is central: "the big moments are all about the little moments."

Vanishing point

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 10:42:02 +0800

C19 is endless, a long tunnel, a rail, a desert road.

Metaphor?

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 10:36:03 +0800

This year has been a blur because of C19.

Love how we get focused by the photographer relentlessly.

Thu, 18 Nov 2021 01:30:47 +0800

The face of concern, larger than it appears?

Who is this "karen"?

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 06:28:53 +0800

This picture captures the raw white privilege of being able to draw a pistol on an unarmed black protestor. Playing the fear card. This is the mask drawn away from the horror. Diane Arbus did this all the time: https://www.abc.net.au/cm/rimage/7553778-1x1-xlarge.jpg?v=3

I am Spartacus.

Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:50 +0800

Nothing in any of these photos says solidarity like this one. You want to take her, you gotta go through us. Our feckless politicians could take a page from the arms linked power of these folk.

Apocalypse Now?

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 06:14:26 +0800

God gave Noah the rainbow sign No more water, the fire next time Prince's "Mary Don't You Weep" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5-HEBGPzFM

Objects in mirror may seem larger than they appear.

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 06:07:58 +0800

If this meme is the metaphor, then what we have here is that we all seem to be heading down the road being chased not by a T-Rex, but the Coronasaurus Rex.

A halo for Biden?

Thu, 07 Jan 2021 01:22:39 +0800

Is this photographer trying to get a job as White House photographer? And what about the sexist iconography of Harris as left hand 'man' not his right hand. I know these seem farfetched, but everything is in the frame for a reason, some of them are plotted and some are imposed.

Way Out

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 05:50:11 +0800

I can't help but think of the choice of a frame here that included "Way Out" was classic politicization. Lazy oversimplfication on the photographer's part. Just makes me realize that framed=staged. Who's zooming whom? The message here reinforces another trope: the hero. Keenan is a hero, the medical workers are heroes, and most importantly, BigPharma is the hero.

Hard to view this laying on of hands

Thu, 17 Dec 2020 05:45:02 +0800

In light of Biden's responsibility for the crime bill, his connections to the Dixiecrats and busing opposition, and his recent excoriation of African American leaders (https://theintercept.com/2020/12/10/biden-audio-meeting-civil-rights-leaders/)

Attitudes over aptitudes

Tue, 01 Dec 2020 02:08:40 +0800

YouTube is my go-to for DIY, but more than that it is my inspiration for having a proper learning attitude. Here is a great example of that, Salvage Workshop: https://youtu.be/cbJPUWTLEXI In this episode, the mechanic continues on a long-standing renovation of an old dozer. He is learning how to use an oxy-acetylene torch to heat up frozen bolts and nuts to get them off. In text annotations throughout he returns to the idea over and over about how he wasn't born knowing how to use tools. He had to learn and he shows how having the attitude that others can help you and teach you is profoundly helpful. And it is. I am always telling my students how the most important skill I can help them with is creating a network to help you. I tell them don't ever go more than twenty minutes of failed understanding before you ask for help.

Desire paths can be laid over mandatory paths.

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 22:05:52 +0800

I taught 8-12 for ten years and one of the ideas I used in every class was to show learners how to apply something we did in class that day to their own "desire path" (https://99percentinvisible.org/article/least-resistance-desire-paths-can-lead-better-design/) I do this with super conventional teaching tools like the much despised research paper. I try to make the learner's desire path form the core of the "road" they have to walk as they complete their projects. They choose the research question they want to answer as well as the format they want for answering it. Their desire path flies over the same set of tracks we oftentime regard as the only way. Not. This idea is not new to me, I have been practicing it in my own freshman comp classes. I have three students this semester who are choosing to answer their research questions via podcasting. That's their desire path.

VR and AR

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:29:34 +0800

Watched a recent episode of Adam Savage's YT channel where he was extolling the latest iteration of Oculus Rift. I am wondering if we are beginning to see among more privileged families the use of VR in gaming. Ready, player one? or two? Here's the Savage YT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJ0WE4JkROA&t=717s

Policies

Mon, 30 Nov 2020 21:10:41 +0800

I hear you. Policies that are as draconian as these show us who generates the problem and who owns it. Policymakers generate, everybody else owns the consequences. The question is this: reform or revolutions. I hate these false dilemmas, so I would value other paths. I know you are looking for them.

Love the emphatic here.

Thu, 12 Mar 2020 22:30:28 +0800

"Let's start!" I noted in email to Paul that this was a timely TTT and even more it came at a time where people were in a pause, not a freefall, in considering this issue. Good in TTT for sharing. And, as always, thanks for the invitation to participate. That is Paul's superpower--being a great facilitator/inviter.

Natalia Navarro introduces herself

Fri, 31 Jan 2020 23:40:59 +0800

Value added?

Sun, 31 Mar 2019 05:36:56 +0800

This is a 'sales job' of the highest and best water. I learned in my years as a business owner that you cannot just put the food down where the goats can get to it. People ain't goats. What you must do is find a product you can believe in and then sell the hell out of it. And buy that I mean that you ask folks to 'buy in'. Yes, it has a cost, but it also has a value. Get them to see the value and they will pay the price. I usually don't make direct analogies to business when I talk about learning, but in this case I think the comparison works. This having been said: the sell is a tough one. I have been trying to sell my colleagues on the value of digital learning tools as an augment to analog ones to a very mixed results.

Why aren't more schools adopting the online affinity model? Why aren't more students using these new personal learning networks in aid of their careers?

Sun, 31 Mar 2019 23:29:45 +0800

Daniel makes a comment early on about how the models described in the book are mostly from the affluent and privileged. I think that kids from poor zip codes are just trying to get buy. These affinity spaces just might not be an adjacency for them. They don't see the connection between affinity spaces and their economic future. Or they can't see it or it doesn't exist for them. You can't get there from here. We need to work on finding adjacencies that enable them to get economic power, paths to power and sustenance.

Use the library.

Sun, 31 Mar 2019 05:32:43 +0800

We need to create/find/explore library use cases. Perhaps what other have already done with your library but also "skeleton use cases" where you outline potential ways the library might be used?

What do students value? Sometimes the answe to this is invisible, but not here. 86% equate online with f2f. Again, that is a river I don’t want to push against.

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 22:04:09 +0800

Social is important. That is a valuation and a value. Online students value the social contacts they get from being online. It’s called social learning.check out Mimi Ito’s work and Julian Stodd’s too. I will add some resources at the end.

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:40:55 +0800

Students expect their formal affinity spaces to look much like their informal ones. We are not talking code switching. That takes energy and has a lot of friction. Just go mobile.

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:22:43 +0800

Surprising. Just like I was surprised and confused by TikTok . Implications? Students expect formal learning ecosystems to look like informal ones. They expect it.

Tue, 26 Mar 2019 20:17:58 +0800

Crux

Mon, 02 Dec 2019 23:55:48 +0800

This is why I am so glad to see this research. It is in the emergent spaces, these affinity spaces that we can see what works out in particular practice--and what doesn't. Even more important we can see what folks tried and how they tried them. Ethnographic studies are so important to studying these informal groups from the inside out and from the outside in.

En-courage.

Sat, 27 Nov 2021 04:40:35 +0800

Let it all bloom, but especially let us be on the side. Let the formal support frameworks of our schools be permeable and helpful and not controlling.

Emergent

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 18:16:36 +0800

I love the idea of emergence. In education we are subject to fits and frenzies where we take a great idea like Nerdfighters and paper it over an existing frame. We cover over the chance to help new, slightly different affinity groups to emerge. In fact, I would argue that all affinity groups are emergent groups. Anything that limits one, limits the other.

Question

Tue, 19 Mar 2019 18:05:23 +0800

Why don't we do this? The internship movement is a partial response to this, but a terribly incomplete one fraught with the potential for misuse, in fact already being abused. Might want to work on the "pipeline" metaphor. Reminds me HR lingo that emphasizes people as resources first and everything else a distant second.

Yes, ephemeral, that is nature of digital life. All life.

Sun, 17 Mar 2019 20:30:12 +0800

Just like a video on Tiktok. Here. Gone. Even the platforms are often just ephemera.

Yeah, it has me wondering why, but I haven't made time to talk to Paul Allison about it.

Sun, 17 Mar 2019 20:27:03 +0800

Glad you found it. I have been, as they say in the idiom 'round here, covered up.

Practice and theory--that is the nexus that interests me most. Let us connect to practice.

Mon, 18 Mar 2019 04:28:32 +0800

the fox and the hedgehog. Not quite the same

Wed, 01 Aug 2018 00:49:06 +0800

Is this an adversarial fable or an co-evolutionary one?

Static

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 23:18:08 +0800

Something very static and 'stopped' about this painting.

Something very formal about the tone. Serious.

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 21:33:57 +0800

Why does she use such a shitty word like "beautiful". It carries no freight, an empty box car. Vague. Paired next to 'shining" it fails. Epically.

Brother Sun, Sister Moon: the idyllic Francis, but I think he might appreciate this harsher Darwinian view.

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 21:30:03 +0800

Darwinian tooth and claw or in this case bill and beak.

Coal chimneys

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 21:17:42 +0800

These are coal chimney tops. I used to have to replace them once in a great while when I owned my chimney business. I remember one that had been blasted my lightning. Impressive, I thought to myself as the clouds above me began to gather for a storm.

Downing Cottage?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 21:15:44 +0800

Not quite but very similar.

Sun behind them.

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 21:15:00 +0800

Late afternoon?

Same thought.

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 21:13:25 +0800

Perhaps the vanishing point needs the white space. Odd how the foreground is so dark and the background is so light. Almost a line of demarcation. And the little "S" of the stream in the middle of the painting.

Saint Francis

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 18:32:20 +0800

I am reminded of Saint Francis' love of ALL nature including the part that's red in tooth and claw and, in this case, beak. I have at least three great blue heron nests on my farm and I am alternately appalled and awed by their power 100 feet in the air as they sweep out onto the planet for food...for their babies.

So many margins in this painting, all active with summer joys and sorrows.

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 18:27:02 +0800

A river?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:35:07 +0800

My eyes drawn here.

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:33:33 +0800

the owl

Sat, 02 Dec 2017 19:18:21 +0800

great owl horned barn barred screech beak talon hidden no sound no sound no sound...

Each

Sat, 02 Dec 2017 19:16:09 +0800

Each and every. funny iterations. abstractions. number substitutes. placeholder nothings.

Oh, look, a snail.

Sat, 02 Dec 2017 19:14:51 +0800

a snail always on the bottom no, wait, its slime is always on the bottom of its bottom gross.

Something bacterial

Sat, 02 Dec 2017 19:13:10 +0800

There is something... bacterial about this. I sense a virus, too. Mostly that tail bothers me. Sprialling out like a spirochete. Although the landscape has me thinking Just thinking.

a golden eyebrow

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:32:32 +0800

Supercilious eyebrow, arching? an aggregation of tiny hairs static and raised by the mind a flattened question, an opening to an internalized response.

a vee here,

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:32:33 +0800

A 'vee' here A bird perhaps on a white and grainy texture or is it a wormhole leading us to the margins hyperlinked and marginalized a moebius, an arc across the moral universe long, bending towards what?

Artist Jasu Hu

Sun, 06 Aug 2017 20:35:38 +0800

Here is a link to artist's site: http://www.jasuhuart.com/ https://static1.squarespace.com/static/525096dce4b0841120fd7b5a/568dd7f5a976aff37361b1f7/568dc211dc5cb4c436c0027e/1479328572957/Lucy_final_website.jpg?format=500w

What do these bands of light signify?

Sun, 06 Aug 2017 20:31:48 +0800

Allusion to Matrix green phosphor stream?

A hand + an iPad + falling

Sun, 06 Aug 2017 20:30:38 +0800

Is this a generational suicide? Does the generation even know that it has take the leap? Unintentional, metaphorical suicide?

Using a painting metaphor

Sun, 06 Aug 2017 20:27:13 +0800

What does the metaphor map to? Statistics as brush? Paint? Canvas? Style?

Money for some things, time in service for others.

Thu, 02 Feb 2017 23:54:34 +0800

I imagine this as an unflattening to a larger philanthropy. I envision one pie onto of another, one for money and one for service. For example, I give money to the ACLU but I contribute my phone calls to the new site https://5calls.org/ Yes, we need to unflatten our understanding of giving. Thanks for helping me to see this in my own life, Dan.

Such a pragmatic view. Flinty even. I like it.

Thu, 02 Feb 2017 23:48:14 +0800

I love how you have just jammed the new pie wedge in, by God.

Zero sum game?

Thu, 02 Feb 2017 23:10:44 +0800

Is giving subject to the rules of money? If I give here does that mean I have less somewhere else because there is only one pie? I think it is true. But...giving in general is not. Giving generates a swell of love inside and out that amplifies not dampens the true wealth of nations--its peoples. I bet that every charitable dollar generates way more than any dollar intended for capital alone. Just a guess.

The idea of a giving budget is new to me. I have in the past donated willy nilly and really only a very little.

Fri, 03 Feb 2017 03:25:42 +0800

I have been very poor all my life, not third world poor, but American, wage-slave poor. My wife only recently entered full-time into the public sphere and we have been able to give more. But I love the idea of creating a separate philanthropic pot of money to give from. I have tended to give services to folks: preparing taxes, writing, farm and garden goods and services, wood cutting, etc. Maybe I need a separate 'time-giving' budget? Thanks, Dan for a great idea.

I wonder where we get the biggest return on investment.

Thu, 02 Feb 2017 22:47:45 +0800

I don't like the use of ROI generally unless it is in the context of a much larger 'bottom line' like the triple bottom line.

Maybe think about Isaiah Berlin's metaphor of the fox and the hedgehog.

Fri, 03 Feb 2017 03:24:20 +0800

Here is an excerpt from his original essay: http://www.design.caltech.edu/erik/Misc/Fox_Hedgehog.html

An agency outside oneself

Sat, 28 Jan 2017 19:11:27 +0800

Helps us fight the thing that resists creativity.

Had not thought of this distinction before.

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:07:05 +0800

Yes!

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 21:04:05 +0800

Nice distinction. Our brains contain universes.

Note the dates

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:47:44 +0800

Cherry-picked? Since no reason is given or implied easily, then we need to be suspicious.

Cairo proceeds to give us a non-example--a dubious model, one that isn't truthful, accurate, informative, or understandable.

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:45:07 +0800

What makes some models better than others?

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:43:46 +0800

1. More truthful 2. more accurate 3. more informative 4. more understandable Do these not beg the further question--what do these mean?

Chimera=mythical creature composed of many different animals.

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:41:15 +0800

Alchymy

Wed, 18 Jan 2017 20:38:07 +0800

If this isn't gross into gold, nothing is. But it achieves its purpose by subtraction. A model stress tests reality, reducing the total number of channels until the connection to reality breaks. Then it rewinds a step or two and you have a useable model or map.

Here is a quote visualizing the words, putting it into another context, translating it in much the same way as one would data in a visualization. Never let words or data speak for themselves.

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:32:32 +0800

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Provocative title

Mon, 16 Jan 2017 21:05:40 +0800

Truth...intentionally ironic or just truthful. Of course, intentional irony is a finger pointing at the moon of truth as the Zen boyz might say.

Reminded of a bar code in the layer underneath

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:32:32 +0800

The highlighted area reminds me of a bar code where each line of a certain thickness represents something else. I am also reminded of undersea fibre optic cables coming together. How better to translate the idea of big data than to hint at two very different technologies that serve the same function--to carry data. Data visualization is a way to freight data too for a mind overwhelmed by numbers.

It used to be that if you wanted a soda, you went to a soda shoppe. Now it is distributed everywhere or (if you have your own soda machine) even in your own home.

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:36:35 +0800

Bricks and mortar and weeds.

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:34:35 +0800

Is this a visual pun on Thomas Piketty's name?

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:33:56 +0800

Picket fences are iconic. Signify middle class solidity?

Will future textbooks call this the anti-FDR Era?

Thu, 08 Dec 2016 20:29:32 +0800

Who was the midwife?

Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:52:23 +0800

the umpteenth of Thermidor? the somethingth of never ever?

Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:42:51 +0800

Lawyers use 'k' as shorthand for contract. What deal am I making with what kind of devil?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:32:32 +0800

And what happens when I default.? And is this like the k on the back of a parking ticket that says, "Not responsible, park it and lock it and hope for the best."?

I can not tear out the page but you can print it if you want.

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:32:32 +0800

Or you can scribble in the margins with a pixel crayon in your favorite color. MIne is burnt sienna or maybe periwinkle, but never calimari.

Go far enough into the vanishing point the reader of the book becomes its author in himself or herself

Sun, 27 Nov 2016 21:49:05 +0800

Once the book is birthed, the parent must let it go. It meets people. It goes to party and gets drunk and pukes in the hedge outside and wakes up hung over with hosannas of neveragain spoken like spoors of truth upon the ground.

Add a zero to the left of the decimal point and you are doing magic, powers of ten, change of magnitude.

Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:31:13 +0800

more. More than three beings being.

Sun, 27 Nov 2016 17:29:29 +0800

Together...connecting...orchestrated...or not.

section of the orchestra are you in?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:32:32 +0800

am I choosing?

Sun, 29 Jul 2018 19:32:32 +0800

This photo shows the triumph of the will of delegation. That they were all just following orders,

Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:04:43 +0800

all cogs in the Nazi machinery, proof positive of the ultimate strength and weakness of hiearchy. It doesn't matter who runs the hierarchy, it it is large enough it will almost always have psychos at the top, sociopaths in the middle, and losers at the bottom.

Check out his tie. Crooked. Bent. Corrupt.

Fri, 25 Nov 2016 21:00:47 +0800

Ja.

Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:57:57 +0800

This is an unnatural vanishing point made possible by fear and hate.

Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:57:40 +0800

The failure is too complex to keep in our head

Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:56:07 +0800

I write this on Thanksgiving morning. Not really a time for anxious frettery, is it? Yes. Now and every moment from now on is the time form the ragged attentiveness we need. For example, when someone says alt-right, I say Nazi. Authorianism of any stripe cannot be dealt with as if it was a reasonable creature, a dude at a bar with a beer. They are Nazi's. They will be the Sturmabteilung. Believe it.

Do we have these now? A red baseball cap with the words, "Make America Great Again"?

Fri, 25 Nov 2016 20:57:57 +0800

Lyrics to "None of Us Are Free"

Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:42:25 +0800

Well you better listen my sister's and brothers, 'cause if you do you can hear There are voices still calling across the years. And they're all crying across the ocean, And they're cryin' across the land, And they will till we all come to understand. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free, one of us are chained. None of us are free. And there are people still in darkness, And they just can't see the light. If you don't say it's wrong then that says it right. We got try to feel for each other, let our brother's know that We care. Got to get the message, send it out loud and clear. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free, one of us are chained. None of us are free. It's a simple truth we all need, just to hear and to see. None of us are free, one of us is chained. None of us are free. Now I swear your salvation isn't too hard too find, None of us can find it on our own. We've got to join together in spirit, heart and mind. So that every soul who's suffering will know they're not alone. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free, one of us are chained. None of us are free. If you just look around you, Your gonna see what I say. Cause the world is getting smaller each passing day. Now it's time to start making changes, And it's time for us all to realize, That the truth is shining real bright right before our eyes. None of us are free. None of us are free. None of us are free, one of us are chained. None of us are free. Written by Barry Mann, Cynthia Weil, Brenda Russell • Copyright © Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group

This was a 'democratic' movement.

Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:39:07 +0800

It arose from both the sea of head-bobbing, hands in the air assent and the sea of tacit consent. As we know, "If you don't say it's wrong then that says it right."

Storm Detachment

Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:34:47 +0800

"Original paramilitary wing of the Nazi Party (NSDAP)" Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sturmabteilung) Just say it out loud. I did and a shiver ran down my spine. Of course, this has nothing to do with the current Great Perturbation. There are no paramilitaries. No Sturmabteilung. Right? Right.