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December 2003
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The market dissected and higher education questioned
12.04.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on The market dissected and higher education questioned“Cry havoc, and let slip the commodified economy!” (Link from Vitia.)
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Notes on the context of 21st century character formation
12.04.03 | Permalink | 2 CommentsGlobalization guru John Boli identifies several broad trends of globalization (considered to be a economic and cultural phenomenon): The continuing success of the nation-state as the planet’s preeminent political form. Cultural relativism and cultural authenticity. Regionalism. Consumerism as adaptive interpretation (of previous points). Creolization. Buddhist studies scholar Christopher Queen identifies three characteristics that Buddhism shares […]
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Putting the voluntary back in “voluntary simplicity”
12.03.03 | Permalink | 6 CommentsToday in news: Rich white liberals assuage social guilt by redecorating house with minimalistic Pottery Barn designs and growing own vegetables with help of Restoration Hardware. Sparse lifestyle recommended by same for working class Americans. Does anyone know someone who practices “voluntary simplicity” who isn’t at least upper-middle class, white, and liberal? I thought not. […]
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New to the blogroll
12.03.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on New to the blogrollFor intelligent engagement with the nation’s op-ed pages, check out Ipecac, a reverse peristalsis for consumers of culture. (I had to look it up too.) But no RSS feed?
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Wholeness and the torn soul
12.03.03 | Permalink | Comments Off on Wholeness and the torn soulHenry Nelson Wieman says that the greatest good for us as individuals is “the most complete satisfaction of the individual that is possible when the individual is viewed in the wholeness of his being.” Wholeness, you say? We find ourselves taken back to the question of the torn soul as self. Elsewhere he writes on […]
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