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Dark Phantoms
The hood of the car swung up to the windshield, the airbag blew, the car slowed and drifted to the shoulder. A tow truck driver dropped me at the Toledo airport, where I rented a car and made it home that night. In healthy individuals, the repressed returns by means of sublimation, whereby destructive instincts are channeled into safe habits that meet our psychic needs without endangering social relations (as lust, for instance, is contained by marriage). [...]for Freud, the ultimate repetition is death-out of nonexistence we came and to nonexistence we go: \"The goal of all life is death.\"
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SYSTEM'S FAILURE
[...]what can one do when minority groups lack civil rights, Western nations conduct \"police actions\" in former colonies, and the hyperconcentration of political-economic power blocks effective dissent? Under the rule of monopolistic media-themselves the mere instruments of economic and political power-a mentality is created for which right and wrong, true and false are predefined wherever they affect the vital interests of the society. Critics of systems have all the evidence they need to assert their unjust mechanics-namely, disparate outcomes. Since the results are there, the causes must be, too-but they're invisible, which is why wholesale change is necessary. People naturally assume \"the so-called 'psychological' view,\" Hegel states, which attributes actions to individual motive and ignores the \"cunning of reason\"-Hegel's famous term for the paths civilization takes quite apart from the intentions of its prime agents (kings, prophets, inventors, thinkers).
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SWEAT THE SMALL STUFF
[...]that is, educators in the mid-twentieth century decided that memorization was just a mechanical activity. In education theory, the most influential model of such acts of thinking has been Bloom's Taxonomy, a pyramid of learning objectives produced around 1950. Western Civilization and Great Books got the same treatment, as did the Founding and Plymouth Rock and other cornerstones of traditionalist thinking. Here is an incomplete list of what still hasn't undergone critical thinking in mainstream circles: the anti-war movement; communists in Hollywood and government; the sexual revolution; anti-colonialism; the Black Panthers; postmodern irony.
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DENIZENS OF CONCORD
Why should this unexceptional town twenty miles west of Boston with no natural sublimity or intellectual history, no great universities or popular theaters or bustling coffeehouses, no patrons or publishers, have produced such a lasting body of writing in so brief a time, the first real cultural movement in America that counted in the worlds eyes? True, too, that when the Transcendentalists were there, the town had a proud historical claim as the site of \"the shot heard round the world\"-an episode at the center of Gross's previous book, The Minutemen and Their World (which won the Bancroft Prize for 1976). Since the mid-twentieth century, social history and cultural studies have explicitly renounced \"Great Man\" models of the past and aimed to track the course of things \"from the bottom up,\" that is, through the real lives of regular people, their jobs and finances, social habits and consumer goods, leisure preferences and sexual mores. Talk of Great Men and Great Books was for right-wing characters such as Thomas Carlyle (On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and The Heroic in History) and Ezra Pound, who wrote, in The Spirit of Romance, \"The history of an art is the history of masterwork, not of failures, or of mediocrity. .
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