Drexel Undergraduate studying Sociology, with a focus on race and culture.
They’re gonna tear down the grand old opry
They’re gonna tear down the sound that goes around our song
They’re gonna tear down the grand ole opry
Another good thing, is done gone on, done gone on
Well there were campers
And there were busses
Parked all around, where there used to be a door
But that place
Called the grand ole opry
It [...]
from the something awful forums:
First, let’s start with the core information of an article. it’s about the prospects of VAT for the US:
After Obama adviser Paul Volcker recently raised the prospect of a value-added tax, or VAT, the Senate voted 85-13 last week for a nonbinding “sense of the Senate” resolution that calls the such [...]
There is a trap that many of us fall into when imagining struggles against power. We imagine that we must be the lone hero, standing up against the indomitable might of our oppressors. We imagine ourselves taking heroic stands – like David against goliath, like Rosa Parks against racism. Or we imagine ourselves becoming powerful, [...]
The idea that the wealthy get less service from the government than the poor is one of the most dangerous but also the most pervasive ideas in our culture.
I am an atheist. Unlike many American atheists, I am not a “born-again” atheist. I did not find atheism after a childhood of religious oppression, or anything like that. I was simply raised without organized religion. My parents, growing up in China, were atheist, as well as college-educated. If there was Chinese religion in their [...]
but i do know that the common liberal/democrat reaction of laughing/mockery is completely wrong.
i am concerned with the tea party because of it’s incredibly fascist undertones, coupled with the class struggle which all of america is going through right now. while the hateful language of the tea party is more than a little cause of [...]
My teacher said that the 60s were the “last gasp of cultural criticism” before we were overwhelmed by the tidal wave of capitalist consumerism. But, I don’t know that we were suddenly overwhelmed by materialism; market capitalism was strengthened, not weakened, by the cultural critiques and studies of the 60s.
Without an understanding of what makes [...]
I recently read a 1959 essay by Frantz Fanon, called “This is the Voice of Algeria.” For those of you not familiar with Algerian history, Algeria was colonized by France in the early-mid 1800s, a rule which lasted until approximately the mid 1900s. Fanon, in his essay, discusses the use of radio in Algeria.
In Algeria, [...]