It is autumn now as I sit on my porch and glance at the trees, the wonderful yellow and flaming orange leaves. I can hear the river behind the house in the distance; although it has been dammed it still calls out. On this bright sunny day I can see the mountains a far, I love living in the valley tho as a child of the ocean, I do long for my return to the shore. Yes the hippie in me is alive.
This season brings back thoughts of the great leader chairman Mao of china. I remember spending hours in deep study of The Red Book. All countries as they continue the task of solidifying its national identity or as I prefer the term national culture must have among its rank the vanguard. One of the task entrusted to the vanguard is the production of the national Culture theory and praxis, thus as a vanguard I am putting fourth in addition to philosophy of education, the theory and praxis of national culture of the Bahamas.
These are an excerpts from The Red Book by Mao don’t leave home without it.


The proper handling of contradiction among the people.


We are confronted by two types of social contradictions - those between ourselves and the enemy and those among the people themselves. The two are totally different in their nature.
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed.. p. 2.

To understand these two different types of contradictions correctly, we must first be clear on what is meant by "the people" and what is meant by "the enemy". . . At the present stage, the period of building socialism, the classes, strata and social groups which favour, support and work for the cause of socialist construction all come within the category of the people, while the social forces and groups which resist the socialist revolution and are hostile to or sabotage socialist construction are all enemies of the people.
Ibid., pp. 2-3.

In the conditions prevailing in China today, the contradictions among the people comprise the contradictions within the working class, the contradictions within the peasantry, the contradictions within the intelligentsia, the contradictions between the working class and the peasantry, the contradictions between the workers and peasants on the one hand and the intellectuals on the other, the contradictions between the working class and other sections of the working people on the one hand and the national bourgeoisie on the other, the contradictions within the national bourgeoisie, and so on. Our People's Government is one that genuinely represents the people's interests, it is a government that serves the people. Nevertheless, there are still certain contradictions between the government and the people. These include contradictions among the interests of the state, the interests of the collective and the interests of the individual; between democracy and centralism; between the leadership and the led; and the contradiction arising from the bureaucratic style of work of certain government workers in their relations with the masses. All these are also contradictions among the people. Generally speaking, the people's basic identity of interests underlies the contradictions among the people.
Ibid., pp. 3-4.

The contradictions between ourselves and the enemy are antagonistic contradictions. Within the ranks of the people, the contradictions among the working people are non-antagonistic, while those between the exploited and the exploiting classes have a non-antagonistic aspect in addition to an antagonistic aspect.
Ibid., p. 3.

In the political life of our people, how should right be distinguished from wrong in one's words and actions? On the basis of the principles of our Constitution, the will of the overwhelming majority of our people and the common political positions which have been proclaimed on various occasions by our political parties and groups, we consider that, broadly speaking, the criteria should be as follows:
(1) Words and actions should help to unite, and not divide, the people of our various nationalities.
(2) They should be beneficial, and not harmful, to socialist transformation and socialist construction.
(3) They should help to consolidate, and not undermine or weaken, the people's democratic dictatorship.
(4) They should help to consolidate, and not undermine or weaken, democratic centralism.
(5) They should help to strengthen, and not discard or weaken, the leadership of the Communist Party.
(6) They should be beneficial, and not harmful, to international socialist unity and the unity of the peace-loving people of the world.
Of these six criteria, the most important are the socialist path and the leadership of the Party.
Ibid., pp. 57-58.

Told ya'll he was a communist! :hammer:

Told ya'll he was a communist! :hammer:

That is obvious.:)

If he was really a critical thinker he would see that Communism does not work. Even the Chinese are slowly backing away from it, where they can - without losing face. Hong Kong is their capitalist outlet. Even the teachings of Mao are not held as in as high regard as they once were, in fact they are a bit of an embarrassment to the Chinese.

It is autumn now as I sit on my porch and glance at the trees, the wonderful yellow and flaming orange leaves. I can hear the river behind the house in the distance; although it has been dammed it still calls out. On this bright sunny day I can see the mountains a far, I love living in the valley tho as a child of the ocean, I do long for my return to the shore. Yes the hippie in me is alive.
This season brings back thoughts of the great leader chairman Mao of china. I remember spending hours in deep study of The Red Book. All countries as they continue the task of solidifying its national identity or as I prefer the term national culture must have among its rank the vanguard. One of the task entrusted to the vanguard is the production of the national Culture theory and praxis, thus as a vanguard I am putting fourth in addition to philosophy of education, the theory and praxis of national culture of the Bahamas.
These are an excerpts from The Red Book by Mao don’t leave home without it.
The proper handling of contradiction among the people.
We are confronted by two types of social contradictions - those between ourselves and the enemy and those among the people themselves. The two are totally different in their nature.
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed.. p. 2.
To understand these two different types of contradictions correctly, we must first be clear on what is meant by "the people" and what is meant by "the enemy". . . At the present stage, the period of building socialism, the classes, strata and social groups which favour, support and work for the cause of socialist construction all come within the category of the people, while the social forces and groups which resist the socialist revolution and are hostile to or sabotage socialist construction are all enemies of the people.
Ibid., pp. 2-3.
In the conditions prevailing in China today, the contradictions among the people comprise the contradictions within the working class, the contradictions within the peasantry, the contradictions within the intelligentsia, the contradictions between the working class and the peasantry, the contradictions between the workers and peasants on the one hand and the intellectuals on the other, the contradictions between the working class and other sections of the working people on the one hand and the national bourgeoisie on the other, the contradictions within the national bourgeoisie, and so on. Our People's Government is one that genuinely represents the people's interests, it is a government that serves the people. Nevertheless, there are still certain contradictions between the government and the people. These include contradictions among the interests of the state, the interests of the collective and the interests of the individual; between democracy and centralism; between the leadership and the led; and the contradiction arising from the bureaucratic style of work of certain government workers in their relations with the masses. All these are also contradictions among the people. Generally speaking, the people's basic identity of interests underlies the contradictions among the people.
Ibid., pp. 3-4.
The contradictions between ourselves and the enemy are antagonistic contradictions. Within the ranks of the people, the contradictions among the working people are non-antagonistic, while those between the exploited and the exploiting classes have a non-antagonistic aspect in addition to an antagonistic aspect.
Ibid., p. 3.
In the political life of our people, how should right be distinguished from wrong in one's words and actions? On the basis of the principles of our Constitution, the will of the overwhelming majority of our people and the common political positions which have been proclaimed on various occasions by our political parties and groups, we consider that, broadly speaking, the criteria should be as follows:
(1) Words and actions should help to unite, and not divide, the people of our various nationalities.
(2) They should be beneficial, and not harmful, to socialist transformation and socialist construction.
(3) They should help to consolidate, and not undermine or weaken, the people's democratic dictatorship.
(4) They should help to consolidate, and not undermine or weaken, democratic centralism.
(5) They should help to strengthen, and not discard or weaken, the leadership of the Communist Party.
(6) They should be beneficial, and not harmful, to international socialist unity and the unity of the peace-loving people of the world.
Of these six criteria, the most important are the socialist path and the leadership of the Party.
Ibid., pp. 57-58.



blah blah blah ....

lets see, Bahamas Issues, Bahamas, Issues to do with the Bahamas.

1+1=2

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HHHHMMMMM
HHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMM

That is obvious.:)
If he was really a critical thinker he would see that Communism does not work. Even the Chinese are slowly backing away from it, where they can - without losing face. Hong Kong is their capitalist outlet. Even the teachings of Mao are not held as in as high regard as they once were, in fact they are a bit of an embarrassment to the Chinese.


Communism works the same way a lightbulb works - in a perfect vacuum denied influences of other elements. But are we sure that he really understands communism that well to be labeled a communist?

Communism works the same way a lightbulb works - in a perfect vacuum denied influences of other elements. But are we sure that he really understands communism that well to be labeled a communist?

That is a good point.

To: The Seventh Generation; Namaste , it is another perfect day in the valley, all is quiet. The time is pregnant for the continuation of the work of chairman Mao on:

The Proper handling Of Contradictions Among The People:

The question of suppressing counterrevolutionaries is one of a struggle between ourselves and the enemy, a contradiction between ourselves and the enemy. Among the people, there are some who see this question in a somewhat different light. Two kinds of persons hold views different from ours. Those with a Rightist way of thinking make no distinction between ourselves and the enemy and take the enemy for our own people. They regard as friends the very persons whom the broad masses regard as enemies. Those with a "Left" way of thinking magnify contradictions between ourselves and the enemy to such an extent that they take certain contradictions among the people for contradictions with the enemy and regard as counter-revolutionariei persons who are actually not counter-revolutionaries. Both these views are wrong. Neither can lead to the correct handling of the question of suppressing counter-revolutionaries or to a correct assessment of this work.
Ibid., p. 25.

Qualitatively different contradictions can only be resolved by qualitatively different methods. For instance, the contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is resolved by the method of socialist revolution; the contradiction between the great masses of the people and the feudal system is resolved by the method of democratic revolution; the contradiction between the colonies and imperialism is resolved by the method of national revolutionary war; the contradiction between the working class and the peasant class in socialist society is resolved by the method of collectivization and mechanization in agriculture; contradiction within the Communist Party is resolved by the method of criticism and self-criticism; the contradiction between society and nature is resolved by the method of developing the productive forces. . . . The principle of using different methods to resolve different contradictions is one which Marxist-Leninists must strictly observe.
"On Contradiction" (August 1937), Selected Works, Vol. I, pp. 321-22 .

Since they are different in nature, the contradictions between ourselves and the enemy and the contradictions among the people must be resolved by different methods. To put it briefly, the former are a matter of drawing a clear distinction between ourselves and the enemy, and the latter a matter of drawing a clear distinction between right and wrong. It is, of course, true that the distinction between ourselves and the enemy is also a matter of right and wrong. For example, the question of who is in the right, we or the domestic and foreign reactionaries, the imperialists, the feudalists and bureaucrat-capitalists, is also a matter of right and wrong, but it is in a different category from questions of right and wrong among the people.
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed., pp. 5-6.

The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.
To be able to carry on their production and studies effectively and to arrange their lives properly, the people want their government and those in charge of production and of cultural and educational organizations to issue appropriate orders of an obligatory nature. It is common sense that the maintenance of public order would be impossible without such administrative regulations. Administrative orders and the method of persuasion and education complement each other in resolving contradictions among the people. Even administrative regulations for the maintenance of public order must be accompanied by persuasion and education, for in many cases regulations alone will not work.
Ibid., pp. 11-12.

Inevitably, the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie will give expression to their own ideologies. Inevitably, they will stubbornly express themselves on political and ideological questions by every possible means. You cannot expect them to do otherwise. We should not use the method of suppression and prevent them from expressing themselves, but should allow them to do so and at the same time argue with them and direct appropriate criticism at them. We must undoubtedly criticize wrong ideas of every description. It certainly would not be right to refrain from criticism, look on while wrong ideas spread unchecked and allow them to monopolize the field. Mistakes must be criticized and poissnous weeds fought wherever they crop up. However, such criticism should not be dogmatic, and the metaphysical method should not be used, but efforts should be made to apply the dialectical method. What is needed is scientific analysis and convincing argument.
Ibid., pp. 55-56.

I have to sit back and reflect on the issue that there is no national culture of the Bahamas. What a statement to make, yet I must make it again there is no such thing as a Bahamas National Culture. I am with in the contex of this discussion, clarify the meanning of the term Culture.


But when I reflect on my years in the public school system, and what went for Bahamian
History, we had a book called The Making Of The Bahamas, I believe it was about one hundred pages, thats all we had. This was the best that the country could produce to instill a sense of national idenity in its citizens.Thus in This thread The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture, the subject of culture must be defined along with its state in the Bahamas.


How dose Chairman Mao relate to this discussion? At the basic level China under went a revolution, a bold move, in many ways it is still undergoing that revolution and it is very difficult for me to predict where they will end up. However Chairman Mao works are an excellent back drop to examine such an important subject. I must be cognizant that for the most part that which passes as intellectual in the Bahamas are for the most part counter revolutionaries, just spitting out the trash that they have swallowed from their colonial masters. Where as the masses are just ignorant, and follow where the wind blows, but in all this there are a few vanguards holding the point, thus all is not lost.On culture:

To the ever present Flipmode Squad, my Hippie comrades, the Blockheads, the Seventh Generation, and you, I say Namase; a Hindi word which means I honor the place in you where the universe resides the place of peace, justice, truth, love, and when you are there and I am there we are one.


I have found that it is necessary to revisit the origin of and argument, as these threads can diverge in such a bizarre manner. In looking at the origin posted by Abiskan Moon -Angel, the underline theory of the argument is that the introduction of police officers into the school system will reduce violence there. My position is that the violence in the school system is a symptom of the pathology of our society, and if we are to solve this situation we must look at the root cause and correct it verse treating the symptoms.


Let’s look at society, in particular let us examine the matrix of society, which is culture, in this exploration we will need some definitions. I will be drawing first on the work of the brilliant scholar Marimba Ani, a student of John H Clarke, and her seminal work Yurugu:


“Wade Nobels defines culture as {a process which gives people a general design for living and patterns for interpreting their reality}. Its ‘aspects’ he says, are ideology, ethos, and world view; its ‘factors’ are ontology, cosmology, and axiology; and its ‘manifestation’ consist of behavior, value, and attitude. “Marimba Ani continues; if we look at the phenomenon of culture, we are impressed by the following characteristics:

1. It acts to unify and to order experience, so that its members perceive organization, consistency, and system. In this respect it provides a ‘world-view’ that offers up orienting conceptions of reality.

2. It gives people group identification, as it builds on shared historical experience, creating a sense of collective cultural identity.

3. It ‘tells ‘its members ‘what to do’ thereby creating a ‘voice’ of prescriptive authority. To its members, culture re-presents values (which they themselves have created together out of shared experiences) as a systematic set of ideas and a single coherent statement.

4. It provides the basis for commitment, priority, and choice, thereby imparting direction to group development and behavior; indeed, it acts to limit the parameters of change and to pattern the behavior of its members. In this way culture helps to initiate and authorize its own creation.

5. It provides for the creation of shared symbols and meanings. It is, therefore, the primary creative force of collective consciousness.

6. For all the above reasons, it impacts on the definition of group interest and its potentially political.( pages 4-5 of Yurgu)"

Armed with this definition, I am going to throw myself back into the issue of the root cause verse treatment.

I have to sit back and reflect on the issue that there is no national culture of the Bahamas. What a statement to make, yet I must make it again there is no such thing as a Bahamas National Culture. I am with in the contex of this discussion, clarify the meanning of the term Culture.
But when I reflect on my years in the public school system, and what went for Bahamian History, we had a book called The Making Of The Bahamas, I believe it was about one hundred pages, thats all we had. This was the best that the country could produce to instill a sense of national idenity in its citizens.Thus in This thread The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture, the subject of culture must be defined along with its state in the Bahamas.
How dose Chairman Mao relate to this discussion? At the basic level China under went a revolution, a bold move, in many ways it is still undergoing that revolution and it is very difficult for me to predict where they will end up. However Chairman Mao works are an excellent back drop to examine such an important subject. I must be cognizant that for the most part that which passes as intellectual in the Bahamas are for the most part counter revolutionaries, just spitting out the trash that they have swallowed from their colonial masters. Where as the masses are just ignorant, and follow where the wind blows, but in all this there are a few vanguards holding the point, thus all is not lost.On culture:

To the ever present Flipmode Squad, my Hippie comrades, the Blockheads, the Seventh Generation, and you, I say Namase; a Hindi word which means I honor the place in you where the universe resides the place of peace, justice, truth, love, and when you are there and I am there we are one.
I have found that it is necessary to revisit the origin of and argument, as these threads can diverge in such a bizarre manner. In looking at the origin posted by Abiskan Moon -Angel, the underline theory of the argument is that the introduction of police officers into the school system will reduce violence there. My position is that the violence in the school system is a symptom of the pathology of our society, and if we are to solve this situation we must look at the root cause and correct it verse treating the symptoms.
Let’s look at society, in particular let us examine the matrix of society, which is culture, in this exploration we will need some definitions. I will be drawing first on the work of the brilliant scholar Marimba Ani, a student of John H Clarke, and her seminal work Yurugu:
“Wade Nobels defines culture as {a process which gives people a general design for living and patterns for interpreting their reality}. Its ‘aspects’ he says, are ideology, ethos, and world view; its ‘factors’ are ontology, cosmology, and axiology; and its ‘manifestation’ consist of behavior, value, and attitude. “Marimba Ani continues; if we look at the phenomenon of culture, we are impressed by the following characteristics:
1. It acts to unify and to order experience, so that its members perceive organization, consistency, and system. In this respect it provides a ‘world-view’ that offers up orienting conceptions of reality.
2. It gives people group identification, as it builds on shared historical experience, creating a sense of collective cultural identity.
3. It ‘tells ‘its members ‘what to do’ thereby creating a ‘voice’ of prescriptive authority. To its members, culture re-presents values (which they themselves have created together out of shared experiences) as a systematic set of ideas and a single coherent statement.
4. It provides the basis for commitment, priority, and choice, thereby imparting direction to group development and behavior; indeed, it acts to limit the parameters of change and to pattern the behavior of its members. In this way culture helps to initiate and authorize its own creation.
5. It provides for the creation of shared symbols and meanings. It is, therefore, the primary creative force of collective consciousness.
6. For all the above reasons, it impacts on the definition of group interest and its potentially political.( pages 4-5 of Yurgu)
Armed with this definition, I am going to throw myself back into the issue of the root cause verse treatment.

That is a good point.

very good point

To The Seventh Generation: Namaste a Hindi word meaning I honor the place in you where the universe resides the place of truth, justice and love, and when you are there and I am there we are one.

As a Flipmodian (the concept of Flipmode has been explained in other post by self) I am using the concepts of the seventh generation as articulated by the Iroquois Nation, and the Concept Namaste from Hindi, I remember reading a post wondering about the relationship between Hindi yoga and the concept Namaste. This post demonstrated the lack of an historical awareness of the world, in particular India as both Hindi and yoga stems out of the Matrix of the Indian culture. However this lack of historical consciousness is one that is prevalent through out the seven hundred rocks, island and keys that make up the arcapelligo called the Bahamas. Actually you should view this thread as being the most dynamic cutting edge thread on the subject of The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture

Due to the didactical nature of this post I am calling for a discontinuation of Blockhead practices pervades a significant number of threads here is an example:

Told ya'll he was a communist!

That is obvious.

If he was really a critical thinker he would see that Communism does not work. Even the Chinese are slowly backing away from it, where they can - without losing face. Hong Kong is their capitalist outlet. Even the teachings of Mao are not held as in as high regard as they once were, in fact they are a bit of an embarrassment to the Chinese.

blah blah blah ....

lets see, Bahamas Issues, Bahamas, Issues to do with the Bahamas.

1+1=2

H
HH
HHH
HHHHM
HHHHMMM
HHHHMMMMM
HHHHMMMMMMMMMMMMM

Communism works the same way a lightbulb works - in a perfect vacuum denied influences of other elements. But are we sure that he really understands communism that well to be labeled a communist?

very good point




As I have mentioned before this is Malcolm X Month, thus I am going to define the Blockhead Pathology, it is characterized by a deficiency in these ten areas of thinking skills:

1. Concentration.

2. Observation.

3. Memory.

4. Logical reasoning.

5. Making inferences.

6. Forming hypotheses.

7. Generating options.

8. Making association between ideas.

9. Recognizing patterns.

10. Spatial and Kinesthetic perception.



For more info on these see the book Brain Power Learn To Improve Your Thinking Skills by Karl Albrecht. The Blockhead Syndrome is unique in that it posses a resistance towards improving in the ten areas of thinking skills, where as others may be have similar deficiency but there is not the resistance towards the correcting of the problem. I must say however if you get a chance ,do buy the book it’s a great book. I purchase mine at a discount book store for $3. Not only are Blockheads deficient in the ten thinking areas skills but also in the six functional categories:

1. Fact finding.

2. Crap detecting.

3. Thinking on your feet.

4. Idea production.

5. Problem solving and decision making.

6. happying.

I am so amazed at the karmonic nature of the universe I first came to this place posting about the importance of critical thinking, thinking out side of the box, and as I type these words I reflect and see that I am still there on the mountain of critical thinking, thinking beyond the box, aint it great.

It is the Six Functional Category Skills that I ask that you use in this thread, by osmosis all threads and in your life itself. These are some of the protocols that are taking place in this thread one of the great things about this site is that Bahamians through out the Diaspora can contribute there thoughts here in this place free from the constraints of time and space it is so revolutionary. But how many of us will see the full possibility of the internet? There is an interesting study on persons who had no money winning millions of dollars through a lottery. What has been found is that these persons who did not have money before, after receiving it end up in more debt than they were before. Its not the money but the thinking of the persons, thus by extension if a person is a fool in life outside of the internet, guess what they will be a fool on the internet, thus as you exceed the bench mark of (500) post reflect are they really five hundred quality post (500 is a number I have chosen in memory of the 500 year protest of the destruction that began as a result of the Christopher Columbus voyage, and due to the fact that there are only a few members who have reached this bench mark and exceeded it thus I am able to gain an empirical understanding of their ideology,) or is it crap? However when one thinks from a Seventh Generation Perspective one has to be careful about what one Thinks, Say and Do, but Blockheads do not. Thus if you find your self to be a Blockhead I hope that the words of the song A Change Is Going To Come By Sam Cook are true.


I began this post with a word to the Seventh Generation, and as we as a people begin the task of the creation of a national culture we will have to draw on our historical, cultural ties to West Africa.

The Essential Theory And Praxis Of National Culture is the creation of a new ontology, we must at this stage in the game plan look at all the cultural underpinning of the society but with special attention to West Africa due to its great neglect in our schools, but we must look at them armed with The Six Functional Category Skills and Ten Areas Of Thinking Skills.

*sucks teeth*

Man, take your meds and stay off the web. Seriously.

*sucks teeth*
Man, take your meds and stay off the web. Seriously.


amen

To: The Seventh Generation; Namaste , it is another perfect day in the valley, all is quiet. The time is pregnant for the continuation of the work of chairman Mao on The Proper handling Of Contradictions Among The People:
The question of suppressing counterrevolutionaries is one of a struggle between ourselves and the enemy, a contradiction between ourselves and the enemy. Among the people, there are some who see this question in a somewhat different light. Two kinds of persons hold views different from ours. Those with a Rightist way of thinking make no distinction between ourselves and the enemy and take the enemy for our own people. They regard as friends the very persons whom the broad masses regard as enemies. Those with a "Left" way of thinking magnify contradictions between ourselves and the enemy to such an extent that they take certain contradictions among the people for contradictions with the enemy and regard as counter-revolutionariei persons who are actually not counter-revolutionaries. Both these views are wrong. Neither can lead to the correct handling of the question of suppressing counter-revolutionaries or to a correct assessment of this work.
Ibid., p. 25.
Qualitatively different contradictions can only be resolved by qualitatively different methods. For instance, the contradiction between the proletariat and the bourgeoisie is resolved by the method of socialist revolution; the contradiction between the great masses of the people and the feudal system is resolved by the method of democratic revolution; the contradiction between the colonies and imperialism is resolved by the method of national revolutionary war; the contradiction between the working class and the peasant class in socialist society is resolved by the method of collectivization and mechanization in agriculture; contradiction within the Communist Party is resolved by the method of criticism and self-criticism; the contradiction between society and nature is resolved by the method of developing the productive forces. . . . The principle of using different methods to resolve different contradictions is one which Marxist-Leninists must strictly observe.
"On Contradiction" (August 1937), Selected Works, Vol. I, pp. 321-22 .
Since they are different in nature, the contradictions between ourselves and the enemy and the contradictions among the people must be resolved by different methods. To put it briefly, the former are a matter of drawing a clear distinction between ourselves and the enemy, and the latter a matter of drawing a clear distinction between right and wrong. It is, of course, true that the distinction between ourselves and the enemy is also a matter of right and wrong. For example, the question of who is in the right, we or the domestic and foreign reactionaries, the imperialists, the feudalists and bureaucrat-capitalists, is also a matter of right and wrong, but it is in a different category from questions of right and wrong among the people.
On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People (February 27, 1957), 1st pocket ed., pp. 5-6.
The only way to settle questions of an ideological nature or controversial issues among the people is by the democratic method, the method of discussion, of criticism, of persuasion and education, and not by the method of coercion or repression.
To be able to carry on their production and studies effectively and to arrange their lives properly, the people want their government and those in charge of production and of cultural and educational organizations to issue appropriate orders of an obligatory nature. It is common sense that the maintenance of public order would be impossible without such administrative regulations. Administrative orders and the method of persuasion and education complement each other in resolving contradictions among the people. Even administrative regulations for the maintenance of public order must be accompanied by persuasion and education, for in many cases regulations alone will not work.
Ibid., pp. 11-12.
Inevitably, the bourgeoisie and petty bourgeoisie will give expression to their own ideologies. Inevitably, they will stubbornly express themselves on political and ideological questions by every possible means. You cannot expect them to do otherwise. We should not use the method of suppression and prevent them from expressing themselves, but should allow them to do so and at the same time argue with them and direct appropriate criticism at them. We must undoubtedly criticize wrong ideas of every description. It certainly would not be right to refrain from criticism, look on while wrong ideas spread unchecked and allow them to monopolize the field. Mistakes must be criticized and poissnous weeds fought wherever they crop up. However, such criticism should not be dogmatic, and the metaphysical method should not be used, but efforts should be made to apply the dialectical method. What is needed is scientific analysis and convincing argument.
Ibid., pp. 55-56.

It would seem to me that a person, who has claimed to have the revelation you have, would be careful about calling people blockheads. Such a person would realize that these so-called blockheads don't grasp the concept. That does not make them blockheads - perhaps you have not explained your revelation in a clear manner. Perhaps there is nothing to your revelation but a sea of words in which you hope others will drown. Perhaps your words are making a simple concept unnecessarily difficult. There can be a number of reasons why others cannot grasp your words.

If you hope to gain support, or even to enlighten, calling people blockheads is not the way to go. Does your much quoted John H Clarke say that in order to get the concepts across one must be a objectionable as possible? Or was that your idea?

When I mentioned Pol Pot (and in case you don't know who that was, he was the architect of the Cambodian Genocide. His ideas are much like yours) But when I mentioned him I had hoped you would have pointed out where I was wrong, if I was. But all you did was to call me a blockhead. Is that all the great John H Clarke taught? Are his teaching nothing more that a haughty exercise - disguised in verbal diarrhea? Or is it that you don't understand the teachings? Surely a man who claims to be a critical thinker could come up with a better retort than blockhead! Perhaps you are not such a thinker after all, or maybe you are just a bad communicator?

P.S. The Song "A Change Is Going to Come" Is really rather silly. Change always comes - sometimes it is good, sometimes it is bad. Sometimes it is slow in coming, some times it comes quickly, but change always comes. We live in an ever-changing world where nothing is permanent. (A real "thinker" would know that.)

It would seem to me that a person, who has claimed to have the revelation you have, would be careful about calling people blockheads. Such a person would realize that these so-called blockheads don't grasp the concept. That does not make them blockheads - perhaps you have not explained your revelation in a clear manner. Perhaps there is nothing to your revelation but a sea of words in which you hope others will drown. Perhaps your words are making a simple concept unnecessarily difficult. There can be a number of reasons why others cannot grasp your words.
If you hope to gain support, or even to enlighten, calling people blockheads is not the way to go. Does your much quoted John H Clarke say that in order to get the concepts across one must be a objectionable as possible? Or was that your idea?
When I mentioned Pol Pot (and in case you don't know who that was, he was the architect of the Cambodian Genocide. His ideas are much like yours) But when I mentioned him I had hoped you would have pointed out where I was wrong, if I was. But all you did was to call me a blockhead. Is that all the great John H Clarke taught? Are his teaching nothing more that a haughty exercise - disguised in verbal diarrhea? Or is it that you don't understand the teachings? Surely a man who claims to be a critical thinker could come up with a better retort that blockhead! Perhaps you are not such a thinker after all, or maybe you are just a bad communicator?
P.S. The Song "A Change Is Going to Come" Is really rather silly. Change always comes - sometimes it is good, sometimes it is bad. Sometimes it is slow in coming, some times it comes quickly, but change always comes. We live in an ever-changing world where nothing is permanent. (A real "thinker" would know that.)


hallelujah!!