Ignorance, Arrogance, and Apathy
Ignorance, Arrogance, and Apathy

Author: Wayne L. Shields

Publisher: Xulon Press

Published: 2015-11-16

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9781498455183

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Have "We the People" of the United States become the most manipulated people in the world? Do our Government, Mass Media, and Education System teach us a revised history that causes us to believe the scenarios of U.S. history they want us to believe? Whether by omission or directly using lies or revised history have "We the People" lost the true depth and meaning of History as it actually happen? Are we now believing the false narratives we have been told all our lives? Do we no longer understand the sacrifices made by the Founding Fathers and the many who have died for our freedom throughout the history of these United States of America? Can we actually tell the true story and have it told to all the People or will the Government, Mass Media and our Education System refuse to broadcast or teach it? Are we being taught or indoctrinated? Are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness no more real than Santa Claus? Are those in Government buying Elections by Government give away programs? Or are those in Government winning elections by allowing "free benefits" to illegal residents? Is Government creating right for some people and neglecting those of other people? If the Government is the one creating "rights" is it true they can also take away our "rights"? Are "We the People" going to listen to a Government that lies, cheats and steals our "Rights" away? Are "We the People" going to listen to someone in Government, the Media, or Academia telling us what the Founding Fathers meant by what they said or are "We the People," smart enough to read it and understand the meaning for ourselves? Does the Constitution say, "We the People" are to be the sovereign power of these United States? If so, is it the Government who is in rebellion and not the "We the People"?"

Ignorance and Apathy
Ignorance and Apathy

Author: Frank Lo Zucco

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-01-12

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 9781979282048

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"This work explains the subtle drift this country has undergone, from biblical values to secularism"--Back cover.

Avoiding Politics
Avoiding Politics

Author: Nina Eliasoph

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1998-08-13

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9780521587594

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Nina Eliasoph's vivid portrait of American civic life reveals an intriguing culture of political avoidance. Despite the importance for democracy of open-ended political conversation among ordinary citizens, many Americans try hard to avoid appearing to care about politics. To discover how, where and why Americans create this culture of avoidance, the author accompanied suburban volunteers, activists, and recreation club members for over two years, listening to them talk - and avoid talking - about the wider world, together and in encounters with government, media, and corporate authorities. She shows how citizens create and express ideas in everyday life, contrasting their privately expressed convictions with their lack of public political engagement. Her book challenges received ideas about culture, power and democracy, while exposing the hard work of producing apathy.

White Privilege
White Privilege

Author: Norris Shelton

Publisher:

Published: 2018-04

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9780999886212

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White privilege is a book about cultural depression, which is clarified in many ways. I explain white privilege, the cause of cultural depression, in two words: "racial discrimination."

Radical
Radical

Author: David Platt

Publisher: Multnomah

Published: 2010-05-04

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1601422210

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New York Times bestseller What is Jesus worth to you? It's easy for American Christians to forget how Jesus said his followers would actually live, what their new lifestyle would actually look like. They would, he said, leave behind security, money, convenience, even family for him. They would abandon everything for the gospel. They would take up their crosses daily... But who do you know who lives like that? Do you? In Radical, David Platt challenges you to consider with an open heart how we have manipulated the gospel to fit our cultural preferences. He shows what Jesus actually said about being his disciple--then invites you to believe and obey what you have heard. And he tells the dramatic story of what is happening as a "successful" suburban church decides to get serious about the gospel according to Jesus. Finally, he urges you to join in The Radical Experiment -- a one-year journey in authentic discipleship that will transform how you live in a world that desperately needs the Good News Jesus came to bring.

Democracy and Political Ignorance
Democracy and Political Ignorance

Author: Ilya Somin

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2013-10-02

Total Pages: 277

ISBN-13: 0804789312

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One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Often, many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This may be rational, but it creates a nation of people with little political knowledge and little ability to objectively evaluate what they do know. In Democracy and Political Ignorance, Ilya Somin mines the depths of ignorance in America and reveals the extent to which it is a major problem for democracy. Somin weighs various options for solving this problem, arguing that political ignorance is best mitigated and its effects lessened by decentralizing and limiting government. Somin provocatively argues that people make better decisions when they choose what to purchase in the market or which state or local government to live under, than when they vote at the ballot box, because they have stronger incentives to acquire relevant information and to use it wisely.

Generation at the Crossroads
Generation at the Crossroads

Author: Paul Rogat Loeb

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 472

ISBN-13: 9780813522562

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Challenging prevailing media stereotypes, Generation at the Crossroads explores the beliefs and choices of the students who came of age in the 1980s and 1990s. For seven years, at over a hundred campuses in thirty states, Paul Loeb asked students about the values they held. He examines their concepts of responsibility, the links they draw between present and future, and how they view themselves in relation to the larger human community in which they live. He brings us a range of voices, from "I'm not that kind of person," to "I had to take a stand." Loeb looks at how the rest of us can serve young people as better role models, and give them courage and vision to help build a better world. This insightful book explores the culture of withdrawal that dominated American campuses through most of the eighties. He locates its roots in historical ignorance, relentless individualism, mistrust of social movements, and a general isolation from urgent realities. He examines why a steadily increasing minority has begun to take on critical public issues, whether environmental activism, apartheid, hunger and homelessness, affordable education, or racial and sexual equity. Loeb looks at individuals who have overcome precisely the barriers he has described, and how their journeys can become models. The generational choices he explores will shape our common future.

White Fragility
White Fragility

Author: Dr. Robin DiAngelo

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2018-06-26

Total Pages: 194

ISBN-13: 0807047422

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The New York Times best-selling book exploring the counterproductive reactions white people have when their assumptions about race are challenged, and how these reactions maintain racial inequality. In this “vital, necessary, and beautiful book” (Michael Eric Dyson), antiracist educator Robin DiAngelo deftly illuminates the phenomenon of white fragility and “allows us to understand racism as a practice not restricted to ‘bad people’ (Claudia Rankine). Referring to the defensive moves that white people make when challenged racially, white fragility is characterized by emotions such as anger, fear, and guilt, and by behaviors including argumentation and silence. These behaviors, in turn, function to reinstate white racial equilibrium and prevent any meaningful cross-racial dialogue. In this in-depth exploration, DiAngelo examines how white fragility develops, how it protects racial inequality, and what we can do to engage more constructively.