If you are feeling down about the American Educational system. Read this about the Swedish system quillette.com/2018/09/18/pos… Progressive educational ideas are terrible for education. America has been saddled with them since John Dewey

I got back from Bangkok last friday in time to work my weekend classes.

I still haven't processed it Saigon in 2018 is where Bangkok was in 2003, a victim of its own success, choking in traffic and pollution

This seems to have been written just for me

https://twitter.com/radicallib/status/1030563460134907904

"The intellectual class, with the pietist Protestant evangelists leading the charge, who were tasked with rationalizing, explaining, and selling this concatenation of mystic revelation with “scientific” theories that justified the new order."

It turns out that the Progressive wave of the 1890s was a repeat of the Civil War populist evangelism, except that overt Christian references were partly substituted with the new language of Sociology. America underwent a number of Revival Waves:
1828- backwoods new york- great lakes (mormons, adventists)
1858- Urban North (co ed, reform college 'oberlin'' abolition)
1890s- upper midwest-chicago 'the new grad schools' dewey, james)
1914- progressivism
193- new deal

I would love to see a good paper of Chinese HR styles, which are basically Hyper-Dilbertian Take every bad thing you have heard about American Organizational Culture, turn them all up to eleven and you get Chinese Management, which can only be described as willfully Kafka-esque

A Dutch perspective on the New Culture Wars.
#nederlands doorbraak.be/zwart-wit-link… For CultuurMarxisme, 'diversity' is a sterile abstraction like 'the people' is for totalitarian regimes.

'Voor het cultuurmarxisme is ‘diversiteit’ een steriele abstractie, zoals ‘het volk’ dat is in totalitaire regimes. Maar de echte diversiteit is'

The impulse to bash “old white men” is satisfying, but it’s also wrong and counterproductive. slate.com/news-and-polit… I never thought I would say this, but someone at Slate is acting like a grownup

In 1854, choosing reason over evangelical faith made you "right-wing"

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Nowadays, the 'religion of the heart' is evangelical socialism

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Time for my periodic reflection on working for a Chinese Online English company. 2/
The Chinese Online ESL market is immense. The VIPKid startup invented the model that other companies are trying to emulate.
glassdoor.com/Reviews/VIPKID…

The 1858 Revival Wave sounds similar to Occupy Wall Street, the official beginning of the Great Awokening Another Revival parallel are the women's consciousness raising groups of the early seventies

In the 1860s, "all evangelical sects required of communicants a personal experience of conversion and a consistent life" The 1860 census shows a dominant Methodism

A central theological shift that made progressive American Christianity possible was from a Calvinist doctrine to an (Arminian) Evangelical notion that, not only was man and society perfectible, it was essential for the reborn to build the Kingdom of God on earth German Pietism in the late 1600s and later Moravians and Methodists had already spread Evangelical Protestantism with its Messianic and Apocalyptic, Will to Reform

I have been wandering through the annals of Social Movement historiography for 10 years now. Occasionally, I stumble upon smething big, but underreported.

The underreporting is always due to it somehow being uncool, as is the case with the 'social gospel'. Progs don't wNt to know how deeply Christian their movements are and Conservatives don't want to know uow deeply weird Christianity is

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I am delving into the fascinating history of Evangelical Progressivism in Canada.

Canada caught the virus from England and America, but it seems to have lasted longer there 2/
The Evangelical Reform movement hit Canada in the 1890s and was transmitted through the Anglican, Methodist and Presbyterian Churches, which suddenly became promulgators of socialism

In the late 1800s, American Sociology split off of Moral Philosophy. It had a strong evangelical component Philosophy and Progressivism in Wisconsin: John Bascom at the University, 1874-1887
[I seem to have stumbled upon the birth of American Progressivism]
#pdf cairn.info/load_pdf.php?I…

The latest Disney firing really makes me depressed, even though I see it as karma for the woke left I thought the Roseanne firing was stupid AF, too, but there were very few willing to condemn it

(1) I have dived a little deeper into America's Social Gospel history. It is a wave of Socialist organization that started in the pulpit and Liberal Protestant University's newly founded Social Science departments

These documents are all available at sci-hub The Urban Universities had progressive Settlement Schools where they experimented on migrant children. University of Chicago's 1890's Hull Houses were notable examples

I have discovered Italian, Years Of Lead Sci Fi letterboxd.com/film/the-seed-… post apocalyptic fashion in 1969, Italy looked like this

(1) I hope this book is the key to understanding America's Secular Theocracy (2) Harper was the first President of the University of Chicago, which was ground zero for Social Science in America

Ok jesus christ, I just saw the latest woke english lesson form NatGeo-Disney.

I am supposed to teach Chinese 8 year olds spanish because we are so woke and multicultural.

Today's words are tio, abuela and abuelo Disney must be burned to the ground

All through East Asia you can find mega-cities without dangerous ghettos. This does not exist in the west East Asian societies have a conservative ethos of hierarchy and repressive homogeneity.
My haunch is that this is why they can have orderly mega cities.