This hopefully my final post on Dream by Stephen Duncombe. Not because I didn’t like it, but because I should really get on thinking more about the focus of my term paper and such.
The third thing in the book that really resonated with me was about donating money to causes. His example of Greenpeace and [...]
Archive for February, 2008
Open Wallet Policy
Posted in Books on February 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Hitler Connection
Posted in Books on February 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’m just going to continue writing about Dream by Stephen Duncombe because it’s still on my mind.
What struck me a lot was how often Duncombe brought up references to how Hitler, his advisors/propaganda people, and the film Triumph of the Will. It shocked me not because I didn’t know that Hitler was a master of [...]
Dream Dream Dream
Posted in Books on February 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Holy hotdog, this blog is hard to keep up with. I honestly did not expect it to be, but I’ve never been good at keeping journals so maybe I should have.
I finished reading Dream by Stephen Duncombe this week. Overall I thought that it was very readable, and what it professes is very relevant and [...]
Responsibility
Posted in Miscellaneous on February 18, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I really like this Youtube clip that was linked from the one of Jon Stewart on Crossfire. As you can see, it’s Stewart’s appearance on the O’reilly Factor.
To me, it really outlines why people shouldn’t be worried about Jon Stewart changing America. What is primarily considered to be The Daily Show’s demographic, “stoned slackers,” aren’t [...]
Awareness
Posted in Articles, Comic Books on February 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
“TDS’s reappropriations call attention to the thorough mediation of news on the News and that indexing inevitably spins an event.” (Mckain)
The subject of the image are the last few panels of The Order issue #5 published by Marvel Comics. The quote is from the Aaron Mckain article that was required reading for the week.
I put [...]
