<Hamilton FreeSkool!> Tonight: Screening/Discussing The Media [& Chomsky]

[Hamilton FreeSkool !]

hallo hamiltonians,
an update from Hamilton Freeskool's Documentary Discussion Class [or "TED,
the class!"]

1) Tonight
2) The Future!

1) Everybody is most cordially invited to come out to view some individual
interviews and talks of Noam Chomsky on a big screen at the Sky Dragon
Centre* tonight at 7.30*; we'll be talking about our conclusions and
reflections on the media today, how things have changed, the impact of the
Internet on the discussion, the pervasive power of common ideology
historically, and whatever other issues come up.  This will be our final
discussion on this topic but no previous attendance is remotely necessary.
We'd love to have your contribution. Sky Dragon coffee will be available.
Please show up when you can to 27 King William!

2) TED: the class is intended to make learning on diverse topics accessible
and cooperative. We'll be planning our next chunk of discussions so that
people can know ahead of time what we will be focusing on. It appears the
next block will be a change of gears: focus on theories and knowledge of the
universe! If one can focus on something so massive :) the nature of matter,
for instance, what we know about the microscopic and macroscopic, learning
about what it is exactly that we know about how our environment IS. So far
we have a bid for a discussion about string theory, which I am personally
excited to learn about.
Newton apparently said to a rival [or colleague?]* "What Descartes did was a
good step. You have added much several ways...If I have seen a little
further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants"*.
Evidently this originated a few centuries earlier with a fellow named
Salisbury:
*"We are like dwarfs sitting on the shoulders of giants. We see more, and
things that are more distant, than they did, not because our sight is
superior or because we are taller than they, but because they raise us up,
and by their great stature add to ours.*"
Let's come together to work on selecting the giants-on-giants we will be
clambering up on. We live in an age where this kind of exploration is
wonderfully accessible through TED talks and other things and I look forward
to learning collaboratively with you.
If you can't make it tonight and you'd like to contribute or suggest a
documentary, talk or presentation for screening in our class in the next
weeks, or if you have any questions about TED the class, or if you have
suggestions or requests for future themes for which we can seek out
documentaries to screen, *please contact me at rache.nolan at gmail.com*.

Peace and love!

Rachel, for the Freeskool Documentary Discussors. [i just made that up. it's
not very good, is it. it's not that catchy but maybe if we had jerseys or
something.]

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civilization—requires "the subsumption of the individual," that is, the
conversion of vibrant human beings into "automata," i.e., into a pliant
workforce, then the most revolutionary thing we can do is follow our hearts,
to manifest who we really are."
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