Do I Dare: Recognizing Propaganda

 First of all, what’s propaganda?  Propaganda is packaged personal ideas and opinions or even desires of an individual or group with the targeted intent of persuading others to think and act in accordance with the suggestions made and advertised in the propaganda package. As a result, propaganda is a powerful tool used to control people and shape a society.  This change in individuals is accomplished in slow but effective ways of undermining civil society and the rule of law. So, before you know it, the norms of society have been altered and usually that change results in the loss of democratic freedoms our forefathers fought long and hard to achieve. 

Do I dare call on you to protect these freedoms by recognizing propaganda and stonewalling its agenda and malicious intent. By so doing, you will not be a part of spreading such information. That is you will not fall victim to believing propaganda and you will not spread propaganda. 

What are your thoughts on fact vs opinion vs propaganda?  

Language Development and It's significance to political leaders and governance

 I've always at language development and how it impacts learning.  However, I've observed that language development is a predetermining factor as to the stability of a country's political climate and the leaders who emerge to govern the country.  It has as much to do with whom the voters choose to represent them, and just as much to whom these representatives support as their leader to govern the country. I'm sure you will wonder based on my observations why and how I came to such a conclusion.

Well, let's gut through the chase.  It's a matter of how the synapses in the brain are making connections.  Have the synapses gone rogue or are they functioning as science has recorded they should?

Right now, there are several examples of synapses gone wild or rogue if you prefer.  These identifiable traits I'll highlight as I continue this Thread, Do I Dare ....

Do I Dare... Remembering The Chrysalids!

As I think about the world I've lived to experience in these times, I am reminded of the novel by John Wyndham and published 70 years ago.  I wonder if I'm even permitted to read such a novel in a time when books are being banned in schools and libraries.  I remember when I was in school that I had the freedom to read and think and discuss with the independence demanded by scholarship. However, today I'm petrified that the era of dystopia is about t overtake us and restrictions of all sorts will abound.

What do you think?  I invite you to read the aforementioned novel then share your views. 

References are below to guide you.   YC

 The Chrysalids (United States title: Re-Birth) is a science fiction novel by British writer John Wyndham, first published in 1955 by Michael Joseph. It is the least typical of Wyndham's major novels, but regarded by some as his best.^[2][3][4] An early manuscript version was entitled Time for a Change.^[5]

The novel was adapted for BBC radio by Barbara Clegg in 1982,^[6] with a further adaptation by Jane Rogers in 2012.^[7] It was also adapted for the theatre by playwright David Harrower in 1999.^[8]

Plot summary

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The inhabitants of post-apocalypse Labrador have vague knowledge of the "Old People", a technologically advanced civilization they believe was destroyed when God sent "Tribulation" to the world to punish their forebears' sins. The inhabitants practise a form of fundamentalist Christianity; they believe that to follow God's word and prevent another Tribulation, they must preserve absolute normality among the surviving humans, plants and animals, and therefore practice eugenics. Humans with even minor mutations are considered blasphemies and either killed or sterilized and banished to the Fringes, a lawless and untamed area rife with animal and plant mutations, and suggested to be contaminated with radiation.

Value of Public Education

 Undeniably, the value of public education is to provide access to all for achieving a better quality of life.

What are your thoughts on having an organized system of education that offers the opportunity to all that they will have the tools necessary to provide for themselves the quality of life they would like to enjoy?

I'm looking forward to your responses.

This is what some educator's think. It's directed at Google.

 https://lu.ma/e4e-allies-june?tk=In09oX

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Education matters and public education is of utmost importance. What do you think?

 https://lu.ma/e4e-allies-june?tk=In09oXa

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I'm back!!

What's new in this era of COVID-19?  Stay tuned, and you'll find out how novel a blog this will be as together we'll be exploring the world in a wonderful novel way.  What do you say to that?