Audio Activism » Quotes http://www.audioactivism.org Metadata about *Media* Activism Sat, 19 Dec 2009 16:32:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Seven Days http://www.audioactivism.org/2005/11/03/seven-days/ http://www.audioactivism.org/2005/11/03/seven-days/#comments Thu, 03 Nov 2005 13:03:02 +0000 Brian R. http://www.audioactivism.org/?p=361 From Rob Brezsny’s Free Will Astrology:

LIBRA (Sept.23-Oct.22): In one of his books, the Dalai Lama challenges readers to go just 10 minutes without having a negative thought about another person. When I told this to my acquaintance Arthur, he said, “What a simplistic, overrated fraud that Dalai Lama dude is. It;s totally easy to go 10 minutes without dissing someone.” Your assignment, Libra, is to submit to a marathon version of the challenge. See if you can go seven whole days without having a negative thought about anyone. His Holiness implies there’s a good selfish reason for doing so: it helps you cultivate a state of mind in which peaceful contentment is a natural condition. (bold mine)

I read this in the Independant as I walked to work this morning. I had for some unknown chearful reason said hello rather loudly to two different men at this point. I think they appreciated me saying hello.

Last night I was in a rather bad mood. I’d said some rather harsh words to someone I didn’t know. I went to bed worn out. I wonder what I dreamed last night? This morning was different. Thank you for sharing His Holiness advice Mr. Brezsny.

]]> http://www.audioactivism.org/2005/11/03/seven-days/feed/ 0 On Objectivity by Howard Zinn http://www.audioactivism.org/2005/01/03/on-objectivity-by-howard-zinn/ http://www.audioactivism.org/2005/01/03/on-objectivity-by-howard-zinn/#comments Tue, 04 Jan 2005 03:21:08 +0000 Brian R. http://www.audioactivism.org/?p=42 “From the start of my teaching and writing, I had no illusions about “objectivity,” if that meant avoiding a point of view. I knew that a historian (or a journalist, or any one telling a story) was forced to choose, from an infinite number of facts, what to present, what to omit. And that decision inevitably would reflect, whether consciously or not, the interests of the historian.”

“There is an insistence, among certain educators and politicians in the United States, that students must learn facts. I am reminded of the character in Charles Dickens’s book Hard Times, Gradgrind, who admonishes a younger teacher: “Now, what I want is, Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life.”

“But there is no such thing as a pure fact, innocent of interpretation. Behind every fact presented to the world–by a teacher, a writer, anyone–is a judgment. The judgment that has been made is that this fact is important, and that other facts are not important and so they are omitted from the presentation.”

From Voices of a People’s History of the Untied States, Introduction, p.25, edited by Howard Zinn and Anthony Arnove.

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This wonderful bit of text is AudioActivism’s mantra. -Brian ]]> http://www.audioactivism.org/2005/01/03/on-objectivity-by-howard-zinn/feed/ 0