Distraction through Media and Politics
The Content We are Presented With vs. The Actual Problems that Face Us
About
4/7/2015
This class begins digging into the substantive content of the world we are presented with versus the actual problems that face us.
Through politics, religion, media, education, and legal systems, we are led to believe that the United States is a land of freedom and opportunity, that it is the greatest country in the world. The problems that we are presented with (e.g., Iran nuclear proliferation, ISIS, the economic crisis) are being fed to us through the calculated efforts of the various systems that socially control our country. However, the actual problems (e.g., climate change, military conflict between the Northern Industrial Alliance and the New Asian Empire, and the rise of the National Security State) are very different.
We must question why we are being distracted from such actual problems as well as understand the logical progression of such distractions.
Readings:
- Howard Bloom – The God Problem pp.29-60: “A Taste of Sin”
- “A Philological History of Worldviews”, Worldview – David Naugle; ch. 3 & 4
- The Influence of the Scottish Enlightenment by Daniel N. Robinson, Oxford University
- Doug Wilson PhD Thesis: Scottish Enlightenment in American Revolutionary Theory (1-10, 41-49) Saint Andrews American Revolution, ch. 1 and p41-49.
- Natural Law and the American Constitution
- Metaphysics, Epistemology and Natural Law Theory – The American Journal of Jurisprudence
- Naturalism in Ethics