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Christmas is around the corner and beloved children stories are told once more. Stories we inherit from our parents. But to some of these stories there’s a dark side. Some of these stories subconsciously try to get children to accept certain circumstances for granted rather than to question them.

An adult engaged in writing a book for children may well intend to present a life-affirming vision that communicates cultural values and traditions, but at the same time that adult may consciously or unconsciously induce, even seduce, the child to accept and repeat the neurotic discontents of culture and civilization.

Hamida Bosmajian: “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and Other Excremental Visions”

Willy Wonka is such a beloved children’s fiction character. But is he actually as sweet as he appears? Or is there a bitter darkness that lurks beneath his sugary surface?

Let’s talk about it.

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Soon it will be Christmas and we want to tell a now old story again, perhaps to finally end it. The title of this story:

The Downfall Of Channel Awesome

Yes, it may seem strange, but let’s revisit this awkward story. Let’s try to understand it. And then we let it go. The end of a very chaotic year 2022 – 12022 in the human era – with a flashback to a very chaotic ending.

And then we look ahead!

Vaush reacts to Shaun’s tweets about Elon Musk. Vaush agrees with Shaun’s tweets and reacts to some of Elon Musk’s tweets about twitter. Vaush gives his thoughts and also reacts to a lawsuit involving Jeff Bezos and more. Thoughts on Elon Musk? Leave a comment below!

Tech CEOs aren’t geniuses, and here’s the proof.

These rich people are just not interested in real life…

From America’s inception, there has always been a rebellious, anti-establishment mentality. That way of thinking has become more reckless now that the entire world is interconnected and there are added layers of verification (or repudiation) of facts.

As the great minds in this video can attest, there are systems and mechanisms in place to discern between opinion and truth. By making conscious efforts to undermine and ignore those systems at every turn (climate change, conspiracy theories, coronavirus, politics, etc.), America has compromised its position of power and effectively stunted its own growth.

A part of the problem, according to writer and radio host Kurt Andersen, is a new media infrastructure that allows for false opinions to persist and spread to others. Is it the beginning of the end of the American empire?

In the last 30 years religion has radicalized American politics and seriously harmed the perception of science, says journalist and author Kurt Andersen. This can be directly tied to the rise of the Christian Right in the 20th century. To see this, you only have to look at the response to the same question posed to Republican presidential candidates over three election cycles, from 2008 to 2016: “Do you believe in Darwinian biological evolution?”

From climate change to Creationism and outright conspiracy theories, Andersen points to how the Republican party has come to increasingly incorporate fantasy and wishful untruths into its approach to social, economic, and foreign policy—and it’s turning America into an anti-science spectacle. Kurt Andersen is the author of Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire (link leads to AMAZON.com).

This video is four years old now, it’s still relevant – and we are in deep trouble…

In the decade since Facebook went public, social media platforms have transformed American society. To understand where the world is today we have to understand what happened the last ten years. Today we have two videos adressing the problem.

First Jonathan Haidt speaks with Hari Sreenivasan about what went wrong and how social media could become less corrosive. Jonathan is a social psychologist, professor, and author whose research examines the intuitive foundations of morality, and how morality varies across cultures—including the cultures of progressive, conservatives, and libertarians. He is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis, and of The New York Times bestsellers The Righteous Mind, and The Coddling of the American Mind, which he co-authored with Greg Lukianoff.

Second, FAIR Perspectives chat with Jonathan about his recent Atlantic article “Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid,” social media and its effects on our discourse and culture, the need for a shared story, the importance of dissent, the distinctions between liberalism and conservatism, the global impact of America’s descent into what he calls “structural stupidity,” and what measures we can take to improve it.

The Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism (FAIR) is a nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing civil rights and liberties for all Americans, and promoting a common culture based on fairness, understanding and humanity.