Thomas Jefferson envisioned a state of humanity that was absent of a state impose upon humanity. He possessed the conviction that humankind instantiated the necessary dispositions for self-governance. We currently live in a society that provides greater grants of funding to the quasi-academic pursuit of criminal justice while providing little or no funding to fields [...]
…while Centralization expands the Hegemony of a Provincial Interest’s impact upon the Whole
This brief essay is a response to the Populist Party’s recent publication of a compelling argument calling for the decentralization of political power found at the following URI:
http://www.populistamerica.com/populist__32
The reason I feel compelled to annotate in a modest form the contents of the polemic [...]
A patch of cognition related to the right…
The question is not if there is a Power Elite. It is how you conceptualize power. I just do not think that it is fruitful to understand the dynamics of power – control and discipline – in a pre-Foucauldian fashion. I do not think there is necessarily a [...]
For the last year and a half or so, I have been researching the sociological dimensions of Web 2.0, from which I could apply some of the conclusions I have formed from my observations of the Plebeian social democratic knowledge-production communities to the administration of education. I think that this would be a refreshing change [...]
Preface
The following is a work in progress that contains an answer to the question on the comprehensive exam. However, the answer has been intermingled with writings extraneous to the purpose of satisfying the comprehensive requirements, yet relevant to the overall purpose of this text, which functions as artifice to tease out the phenomena which comprise [...]
by Russell Cole
What ever happened to the Green Party? Remember, the Green Party; the People’s Party; the Party with an egalitarian structure that practiced grass-roots politics and social democracy when deliberating over its own policies and affairs?
The Green Party of old no longer exists in any substantive form; only in a projection of text displayed [...]
American politicians – with the exception of the atypically principled Chuck Hegel – refuse to even consider the possibility that Israel is anything less than fully justified in its ferocious attack upon the country and inhabitants of Lebanon. Apparently, the dehumanizing expression, collateral damage, is a sufficient rhetorical device to effectively obfuscate the destruction of [...]
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