# Fascism, education and social control

**URL:** <https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/fascism-education-and-social-control/10141>\
**Category:** Humanism\
**Created:** [February 13, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/fascism-education-and-social-control/10141 "2023-02-13T17:40:40Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 27, 2023, 9:20pm UTC](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/fascism-education-and-social-control/10141/27 "2023-11-27T21:20:19Z")

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> [@zedenko77](#):
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> Do you look at the medias role in all this ?

We started having a constructive public dialogue in the 50s, then into the 60s, but it was eaten away with time. Now media has a huge roll in promulgating the lies and crazy-making.

> [@zedenko77](#):
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> Govt ?

Yes, government has a big role. In American We The People also have a big role, none bigger than being informed and engaged. I could go on buy my dog calls again.

> [@zedenko77](#):
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> What climate change activism do you support?

Oh lordie, public education.

> [An essay concerning our weather](https://www.thefreelibrary.com/An+essay+concerning+our+weather.-a017529280)  
> Nov/Dec 1995 - The Humanist magazine
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> [Katrina and Rita in context](https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Katrina+and+Rita+in+context.-a0138537035)  
> Nov/Dec 1205 - The Humanist magazine
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> [Concerning Our Failure to Appreciate the Weather](https://thehumanist.com/magazine/november-december-2015/up-front/concerning-our-failure-to-appreciate-the-weather)  
> Nov/Dec 1215 - The Humanist magazine

They are kind of the same, evolved at decadal intervals.

> [@zedenko77](#):
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> Are there some that you disagree with?

In truth I don’t keep up on the personalities anymore, but I used to. And if the right story gets dumped in my lap, I’m known to reengage.  
[Hope is a survival strategy in hopeless times](https://forum.centerforinquiry.org/t/in-defense-of-women/10550/11).

> **[Cc's Hall of Shame](http://whatsupwiththatwatts.blogspot.com/p/my-speciality-has-been-confronting.html)**
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> My "speciality" has been confronting climate science “skeptics” with fact based constructive debates and it usually follows the same trajec...

I really believed intelligent people were capable of curbing their appetites and rational learn from the facts at hand. Now it’s too depressing to get into the weeds anymore. Nothing like watching the horror scenarios of my youth developing before my eyes over the course of the past century.

Now I’m more concerned with conveying a more enlightening understanding of ourselves, body, the introspective consciousness we humans have achieved.

Our relationship with our thoughts.

And on and on . . .

Thanks for asking.

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