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RE: 9 Books That Will Turn Your Kids Into Anarchists
I worry about balance with my children as well. I try to get them to understand that human nature underlies all systems, and thus you have to respect its abilities but also its downsides. Tricky to walk that line between patriotism and suspicion. Thanks for a great list of books!
I strongly feel that young people should be exposed to a good mix of great and horrible ideas, and provided guidance to learn the difference.
@gwiss The for children and adults come from having a refined system of logic and possessing critical thinking (not the mental assent brand). For example, I have long held that 1984 was a book of braggadocio by a hardcore statist, Eric Blair (George Orwell). The best thing about this book is the demonstration of how the state utilizes the Hegelian Dialect upon the sheople. I probably just gave a bunch of people heart attacks, but the truth can be a hard slap to the face. BTW, for anyone who would care to respond, I am prepared to back it up.
I'm not prepared to reject the idea out of hand--having read some of Orwell's other books, I know he was a colossal statist. I'd welcome reading your arguments. :)
@lesliestarrohara Animal Farm was a complaint about the Soviet "excesses." The hypocrisy and brutality were a bit much for the ivory-tower Fabianists. The purpose of 1984 was to show that resistance was futile. O'Brien reveals to Winston Smith that The Theory and Practice of Oligarchical Collectivism was written by the party's leadership.
Winston's relationship with O'Brien was based upon thinking that he was a member of the Brotherhood. Fast forward to the world that we know, this was virtually the strategy and tactics which were employed in the events leading up to the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
In critical thinking, one must vet, vet, vet and apply the rudiments upon his/her self to test all self-developed theories and new information. We see gatekeepers, today for ideology-isms, with the likes of Noam Chomsky and Drug-Rush Limbaugh, defining their respective linear domains. It is planned opposition on full view.
Wrote a post about it.
@gwiss Good stuff; gave you an upvote over there. I am in the process of laying this all out in detail, but not the Three Mile Island kind (TMI). I've posted the first four parts in a series on the real American history and the fifth should be posted tonight.