Gatto has a hilarious passage from Benjamin Franklin, describing his use of the Socratic Method:
I found this method safest for myself and very embarrassing to those against whom I used it; therefore I took a delight in it, practis’d it continually, and grew very artful and expert in drawing people, even of superior knowledge, into [...]
Monthly Archives: July 2005
Franklin on the Socratic Method
July 27, 2005 – 1:40 am
London Bomber Photoshop Scandal
July 26, 2005 – 2:52 pm
This just in! They’ve released a new photo taken from the London CCTV cameras revealing a mysterious fifth bomber!
After the bombings, the suspect was reported to have said, “Did I do that?” in an extremely nasal irritating voice. Conspiracy theorists everywhere are abuzz, suggesting the fifth bomber may have been artificially inserted using the Photoshop [...]
Gatto on Literacy
July 25, 2005 – 11:22 pm
Every once in a while, I’ve flirted with the writings of John Taylor Gatto, but I’ve really never made a systematic study of them. I’d like to add that to my regimen in the coming weeks, now that I’ve wrapped up some other topics (to my satisfaction, anyway). I’ll probably do a bunch of smaller [...]
Ken Wilber’s New World Order?
July 25, 2005 – 1:10 pm
There’s an interesting passage in Ken Wilber’s A Theory of Everything called “Integral Governance.” The idea is that his integral philosophy can be applied to every facet of human activity, including governments. He starts off the section by talking about how the US Constitution serves (or served) as a “pacer of transformation” – that it [...]
An Integral Approach to Conspiracy Theory
July 24, 2005 – 7:10 pm
(Or: “A Conspiracy Theory of Everything”)
Having just completed Ken Wilber’s book, A Theory of Everything, I’m anxious to try my hand at applying some of his theories of “integral practice” to areas that I’m interested in. Since so much of Wilber’s model seems to deal with human psychology, behavior and interaction, I felt like conspiracy [...]
The Computer Conspiracy
July 22, 2005 – 1:31 am
Dan from Mental Deviance just put together a wild idea for a new conspiracy meta-theory.
Cars, planes, and buses are used in bombings because they are the terrorists. In 9/11, there were no muslims or remote control pilots — the plane’s computers themselves orchestrated the attacks.
And you know how all these “simulations†turn into real [...]
