Kevin Kumashiro – Four approaches to social justice education

When Irvin Berlin wrote “Put’in On the Ritz” in 1927 the roaring 20’s was in full swing. The days and nights of dapper sophistication was all the rage. Whit tie and tails as they say.

The dictionary defines madness as a state of being mentally ill, especially severely, extremely foolish behavior, and a state of frenzied or chaotic activity. We live in times gone mad each and every day. In each Episode of the Madness Chronicles, we take a look at a new topic and see how mad some people really are. Come along for the journey.

Sexual harassment is a conduct of a sexual nature that is unwanted and offensive to the recipient. It includes promises of benefits in return for sexual favours, unwelcome sexual innuendoes, sex-related jokes, intimate comments about a person’s body made in their presence, enquiries into their sexual life, indecent exposure, the display of sexually explicit pictures- even unwelcome whistling. In our contemporary society technological advancement can enable people to forward pornographic photos and innuendoes that undermines ones stature and can be viewed as sexually harassment.

We live in a world gone mad. Right is left, up is down and black is white. The Left’s maddening quest to bring us to a one-world government is racing full speed ahead. Take a look at the latest.

We live in a world of madness. Right is left, up is down and black is white. Take a look at some live examples of the madness amongst us. It is growing every single day.

Everyday lives can be summed up like sand flowing down through the hour glass. The hour glass of life where the experiences of our days shape who you ought to be, what you can be, and who you really are. Through the years I have tasted caviar, and eaten humble pie.

On the day before Christmas and all through the land the spirit of the season was no where to be had. Oh, sure there were some places where the spirit prevailed but in so many instances when buyers were scurrying we lost the true meaning of Christmas and good will toward all. The chill of the season has interrupted what should be the best time of year and yet for too many it is just another day just trying to survive.

This is supposed to be the best time of year and yet there lingers a foreboding premonition of turbulent times ahead. Remembering back to my childhood years Christmas seasons for many were filled with anticipated wonderment especially on Christmas Eve. That wonderment was often fulfilled on Christmas morning.

There is little diversity in the organizations that bring us the news in the U.S. With the advent of cable news and seemingly endless numbers of radio broadcasts, the fact is that six conglomerates, six media giant companies often referred to as “The Big Six” largely control the news. This helps explain the need for the topic of this piece, namely, NUDE news.

Spartan creed for every deed suggests the duty, discipline and devotion for the ultimate quest of the personal mission. For an ethical framework by which life is a meaningful experience in every aspect, the free will choice is in the purpose of individuation. A code of ethics is a private selection. For a few, who prefer a more demanding existence, one filled with the pleasures and pains of real-life exposure, a Spartan perspective may be more acceptable.

I like getting down to the practical basics, or operational dynamics, for finding solutions to problems, especially a problem like rampant suicide by U.S. military veterans. According to the existing statistics, over 9,000 honorably discharged marines, soldiers, sailors, and airmen successfully kill themselves every year. That has been the case in increasing proportions since around 1995, and especially after September 2001, amounting to presently around 200,000 dead veterans since 1995. If there is a reason for this happening, it definitely must have something to do with the conflictive and questionably necessary wartime killings that occurred during this timeframe. For during the Vietnam-era, 1963 until 1975, there were substantially fewer suicides among active-duty GIs and veterans returning from Vietnam. There were, of course, a few regrettable suicides of Vietnam veterans between 1975 and 1995 (20 years), but the number of suicides of veterans for those years, approximately 9,000, were substantially fewer than the approximate 200,000+ veterans who have supposedly taken their lives since around 1995. This article will examine a probable reason for this significant disparity, and will propose a practical means of substantially preventing this terrible thing from continuing in second decade the 21st Century.

Free will takes to the joust of disbelief, as many forsake the essence of one’s capacity for the freedom of choice. In lieu of liberation, most prefer enslavement to an ideology of deterministic oppression. Others, a valiant few, will fight on and resist the simplistic complacency of safe mediocrity in status quo consensus. Instead of the influence of logic, creativity and transformation, all often feelings devolve to selfish arrogance of antisocial contrivances. Maladaptive and regressive, pitiful excuses for the stupidity, shape modern narratives from one alibi to the next. Frequently, responsibility hides with accountability the darkness of human motivations. While integrity searches for the lost horizons of credence, common sense takes exile. Human systems, influenced by over-lapping human interactions, devolve to the consumptive pursuit of consumer gluttony. Intellectual advancement suffers.