Friday, April 4, 2014

Review Of Walking Dead Television Series

The Walking Dead television series is popular for several reasons. Good acting and good scripts are always important and Walking Dead has those things. It also is really another drama that happens to have zombies in it. I like all of those things about the show. The more important part of the show is how close it is to our real world. The characters are trying to make lives for themselves in a world full of walking dead people who only want to devour them. We live in a society full of people who are barely conscious. Have you noticed the haze in people’s eye or those who shuffle through the streets with their heads in their smart phones. The zombies on Walking Dead grunt to communicate. Your typical person can barely think so that they cannot communicate anything of importance to you. Every time the group on Walking Dead try to create a home and system for themselves zombies over take them and ruin everything. Every time someone in our society tries to create a movement non thinking people ruin it either from the outside or the inside. If you are afraid of zombies do not let that keep you from Walking Dead, just picture the zombies as the masses and you should be okay.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

review Of Satyagraha (Noncooperation) By Mohandas Gandhi

Noncooperation by Gandhi is one of the more useful lectures ever given for anyone who wants to recognize that life is lived on a systemic level. We all are a part of a system. The largest system in the world right now is the white supremacy system. Almost all of us are caught in this system of hierarchy with Europeans and their allies on top. Other systems do exist. At this point the white supremacy system is dead and decaying so we will all be living within a new system. The question is how will you survive? Gandhi explains that you must withdraw from the colonial system by taking your cooperation away from the official system. This is simple to do. Do not go to the official school, or work as an official clerk. If you have courage Noncooperation will help you. If you are a coward Noncooperation by Gandhi will be a good read.

Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Review Of Ideas And Opinions By Albert Einstein

You can never ignore Albert Einstein so Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein is a book that you we should pay attention to. This is a collection of letters, notes, news articles, etc. written by Einstein through out his life. This book covers how Einstein felt about women, Jewish people, and everything else under a well as beyond the sun. Of course Einstein talks about science. I found the whole book beneficial. I have made videos using the book and will probably make more. Einstein is one of the great thinkers so his ideas are crucial to anyone who wants to be a thinker. Ideas and Opinions also appeals to those who are interested in the lives of others or people that want quick reading material in a large form. Once you see the book you will know what I mean. The reality is either you are thinking or dying so get your hands on Ideas and Opinions by Albert Einstein.

Tuesday, April 1, 2014

Review Of Hot Buttons By Donovan Walling

Hot Buttons edited by Donovan Walling is a good book to have if you are dealing in or with an official education system. Walling gathers essays on topics as varied as curriculum and gender equity. Hot Buttons will make you think about how children in official school systems are treated as well as how you want your children to be treated. I have created an open unofficial system of educating because I do not think that official systems educate our children. I have seen at least two systems rape the minds of students. I speak as someone who was on the inside of these systems. Some parents still have faith in the official systems. If you are one of these parents you should have Hot Buttons edited by Donovan Walling in your collection.

Friday, March 28, 2014

Review Of The Jeffersons Television Series

I have been thinking about the Jeffersons television series lately. I watched a lot of television growing up. The reality is that while my mother was scrubbing floors and raising other people’s children, television was raising me. In this context the images of people from my community was important to how I thought that I could function in this society.  As a child you have to figure out which spaces you can occupy until you are conscious enough to create your own space. The Jeffersons was one of the crucial shows. It was about a dark man who worked his way out of the hood by running his own dry cleaners. George Jefferson was loud and obnoxious, but he was also competent and confident. George had 7 cleaning stores by the time the show ended, which he ran from his private office. Louise Jefferson was responsible for George’s rise. She did house work while he created the first store in his dry cleaning empire.  George never forgot about what Louise did for him no matter how large he grew. She never had to work another day. Louise deserved to her last days in leisure, but she did not do that. Louise volunteered at the Help Center where she helped other people who were still in poverty. I am in contact with a lot of educated dark people and a few of them are willing to make minor contributions, but none as much as Louise Jefferson. The whole point of slaves becoming free is to help free others. Selflessness is such a simple concept that too few understand. As I look at television today I cannot find one dark character that teaches a positive lesson. The Jeffersons television series has become more important as the quality of dark characters on television has declined.     

Thursday, March 27, 2014

Review of Tin Man By Tracy Chapman

The song Tin Man by Tracy Chapman is a great love song. Tin Man deals with the loss of the emotion that one can have when they suffer heart break over and over again. The song stays exciting by straying into the mystical realities of our world. Tin Man has witches and magic men. I can definitely relate to chronic heart ache being an artist and scholar born to a people not interested in culture or thought. Tin Man gives us hope throughout the song that I will not tell you about. I would rather have you hear it. At this point in time, when so much emotion is rubbed out of everything we see and do, it is nice to have a song like Tin Man to listen to.