Category: Mother Culture
Notice: Recession Billboards
| November 9, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Mother Culture |
There’s a billboard near by home that says, “Recession 101: Interesting fact about recessions…they end.”
What is this billboard trying to tell me? Why is this message worth someone spending a lot of money on? Keep Reading
Book Review of The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler
| August 5, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Mother Culture |
While at the library, I happened upon the book The Long Emergency by James Howard Kunstler. It’s subtitle is, “Surviving the End of Oil, Climate Change, and Other Converging Catastrophes of the Twenty-First Century”. It seemed like an important book to dive into and a great random library find, so I snatched it up. I didn’t recognize Kunstler’s name at first, but now that I’ve noticed it on this book, I’ve see that his name pops up now and then in other writings I encounter, so appreciate having this book under my belt to fill out the other things that I read. Keep Reading
More Endgame
| July 1, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Mother Culture |
Prior to picking up either of these books, I was already convinced. Jensen says “Civilization is not and can never be sustainable…” and “Our way of living is based on and requires…persistent and widespread violence,” and “Civilization is not redeemable. This culture will not undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living…” and I already agree. He makes bold claims such as “The only sustainable level of technology is the stone age,” and I don’t immediately jump to argue. Keep Reading
Endgame Vol 1: The Problem of Civilization
| June 24, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Mother Culture |
The sermon begins with the idea that civilization is not and never will be sustainable. By definition, it is unsustainable, exploitative, and destructive. It is killing the planet, and us, and making things extremely difficult for anything that comes after us. No one who understands this believes that our culture will, as Jensen puts it “undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living.” Keep Reading
Inventing History
| June 21, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Mother Culture |
Don McLeroy is perhaps the most vocal and forceful member of the 7 Christian conservatives on the board who tend to vote together. He proposed page after page of amendments to the document that educators had drawn up. For example, he wanted to add words about Ronald Reagan’s “leadership in restoring national confidence” and wanted students to “describe the causes and key organizations and individuals of the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s, including Phyllis Schlafly, the Contract With America, the Heritage Foundation, the Moral Majority and the National Rifle Association.” Most of his amendments passed. One amendment before the board required students to evaluate the contributions of significant Americans. Newt Gingrich was upgraded. Ted Kennedy didn’t make the cut. Keep Reading
Rewind – The Checklist of Fear
| June 14, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Mother Culture |
Every time I go into a bathroom stall in a public place, I am reminded of a warning I received from a now-forgotten source long, long ago. Don’t hang your purse on the hook on the door, because thieves will reach over the door and steal your purse. I don’t know if this is still common advice; I haven’t heard it lately. Even in the face of the warning, I have never failed to hang my purse from the door. Even as I remember it every single time, I do not heed the warning. Regardless of not heeding it, though, it still takes up room in my brain. As do countless other warnings and tactics taught to me from nebulous sources over the years. Keep Reading
Mother Culture
| June 7, 2010 | Posted by Issa under Mother Culture |
Mother Culture whispers to us from the day we are born. She speaks to us through the voices of our parents and other caretakers and from the picture books and nursery rhymes. And it grows from there. Television, radio, newspapers, magazines, internet pages. School teachers and school books, the word problems in the math sections, the chapters in the history book, the charts in economics class. From billboards and graffiti, sermons, jokes, and casual chitchat with neighbors. We hear a same story, and we share it with others. Over and over again. Keep Reading
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