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AGE OF UTOPIA IS MOVING!!! I’ve spent the past year or so working on quite a large project. At the moment, it consists of a short book and a brand new podcast, both of...
AGE OF UTOPIA IS MOVING!!! I’ve spent the past year or so working on quite a large project. At the moment, it consists of a short book and a brand new podcast, both of...
From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-11-fabianism-and-degeneration/: The Fabian Society did seek to improve the living conditions of the poor—but not by the sort of charity that Thomas Malthus had decried. The Fabians wished to totally restructure society brick by brick,...
No one would have believed in the last years of the nineteenth century that this world was being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man’s and yet as mortal as his own;...
“As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, and hides the ruin that it feeds upon, so Sophistry cleaves close to and protects sin’s rotten trunk, concealing its defects.” -William Cowper,The Progress of Error...
Technology – be it a system, a behavior, or an object – is something made by man to suit a purpose. Most people probably picture a computer or a smart phone or some futuristic...
From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-10-fabian-socialism/: “I don’t want to punish anybody, but there are an extraordinary number of people who I want to kill. Not in any unkind or personal spirit. But it must be evident to...
From https://www.patreon.com/posts/37368381: Kevin Cole joins Danny and Brett once again to wrap-up the exploration of New Harmony. Discussed: After its collapse, was New Harmony (or the broader work of Owen) cited by later social...
From https://schoolsucksproject.com/in-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-8-new-harmony-part-2/: What was the ideal for New Harmony, as well as what life was actually like there. What was the theory? How was it practiced? Education at New Harmony: Last time we discussed his...
From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-7-new-harmony/?fbclid=IwAR2cx0jkISMy1CWOD-DX_hxai6re2ErzF5j447xY2qv5oPTCxgHel-FQH8g: (AUDIO, 135 minutes) with Danny McCarthy and Kevin Cole. The New Harmony story includes interesting and largely unknown roots of both American compulsory schooling and socialism. In the Richard Grove/John Gatto clip...
From https://schoolsucksproject.com/and-no-man-improves-in-pursuit-of-utopia-part-6-free-a-v-634/: Happy New Year! Here’s a free episode of our supporter-only bonus series, In Pursuit of Utopia. About This Series:In the 21st century, we’re living in a mosaic of fractured and failed Utopian...
From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-5-committee-of-public-safety/?fbclid=IwAR0alZAwz1H3GIXBNPOCXMVibxxOgca70OZciL_WMdrILZRTtbV7Ko1joc4: A lot of what you’re about to hear will sound oddly familiar… The French Revolutionaries began by addressing genuine grievances and demanding liberation from oppressive structures. They declared equal rights for all...
From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-4-common-sense/: Today we take a look at the aims and ideals of the American and French revolutions as well as the results. How’d they go? France quickly descended into headlessness, and the USA...
From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-3-noble-lies/: Daniel McCarthy and I continue on monthly discussion on the history of Utopian visions and their consequences. In this episode:“The development from Aquinas through Locke and Newton represents more than four hundred...
From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-in-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-2-illumination/: Daniel McCarthy and I continue on monthly discussion on the history of Utopian visions and their consequences. In this episode: In the 17th century a small group of religious luminaries built a colonial...
From https://schoolsucksproject.com/bonus-the-pursuit-of-utopia-episode-one-from-the-top-down/: This is the pilot episode in a new monthly historical series with Daniel McCarthy. Danny is a 24-year-old SSP listener, blogger and researcher, and the author of an upcoming book on the...
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