>>>>>Meanwhile the Arizona State legislature has banned the teaching of "ethic studies" or any and every perspective that dares to challenge the dominant white "christian" version of his-story. The reason is pedagogical: So-called ethnic "studies" are not studies in any real sense. Traditionally, the humanities taught that objectivity and dispassionate search for truth is imortant, if always an unachievable ideal. The "ethnic studies" departments teach that the most important goal of research is to promote politically correct opinions, and that the most important quality of a researcher is perpetual (and fake) righteous anger. Banning "ethnic studies" from taxpayer-funded public universities is no more a blow to the education system than banning creationism from taxpayer-funded schools is. Proponents of both care nothing for truth or objectivity and only care about "challanging the acceptable dogma" -- that is, brainwashing students with their fantasies.

Meanwhile the Arizona State legislature has banned the teaching of "ethic studies" or any and every perspective that dares to challenge the dominant white "christian" version of his-story. Arizona is of course the epicenter of USA cowboy "culture" where the freedom loving Tea-Party zealots have been most successful. They want to "take back their country" from who or what?

The world is an indefinable psycho-physical realm. We all transform the world by our presumptions about what is real. Jesus for instance had no worldly power, nor did he in any sense whatsoever advocate or give his blessings to any worldly power, either in his own time and place, or in the future. And yet the kind of civilization that Daniel celebrates is supposed to be based on the life and teaching of Jesus, as described in the Bible. Western Civilization is, and always has been about the exercise of sheer naked power and the drive to gain control over everyone and everything. It is essentially a Civilization based on the power of cities. It is a Civilization created in the image of Scientism which now patterns and controls the entire world. Scientism a "religion" created by the left-brain and left-brained reason. The modern city, in particular is a form of consciousness. It reflects an attitude, a way of life altogether. It is a dogma, a psychological force-field. A "vision" of life that is fundamentally hostile to a Spiritually informed religious Consciousness and Way of life.And thus by extension to living-breathing-felling human beings, and the non-humans too. Notice that none of the various commentators who write for Standpoint, especially those who presume to be religious, never ever use or refer to the word Consciousness. The Western mind always pursues knowledge of a certain kind and then uses it in certain ways. The Western mind is always in confrontation with matter, or Nature, assuming power over natural laws and events, and thus by extension over masses of human beings. Such a process seems natural, but it is not. It is based entirely on a narrowly defined presumption about Reality and by extension what we are as human beings The destruction of the natural world, and of human culture altogether is just a social extension of the misapplication of knowledge. Western Man, in particular, has always misapplied knowledge, either by preventing it through its half-baked religions, or exploiting it via a false persuasion to the point of destruction. Which is the situation the entire world is now in. There was no Wisdom then, and no Wisdom now. World history has always been a horror story, but our current crisis is largely an extension of scientism, the extension of Western consciousness dramatized all over the planet. The Western mind in itself is just insane.

Yes the American founding fathers were interested in the pursuit and preservation of the white mans life, liberty and happiness, as long as those pesky Indians stayed out of the way. Which of course they did not because their land and resources were being systematically stolen from them. So they had to be either eliminated altogether or shunted off into reservations. Applied "manifest destiny" or part of "God's" plan for the world altogether. These self-righteous dudes signed many treaties with the various tribal groups. And then broke most of them. So much for the "rule of law". The white man always spoke with a forked tongue. The same scenario was dramatized all over the planet. It is still occurring.