In Praise of the American Spirit
(list of videos will be found below)
contents:
A Forgotten Resource: the American Spirit
part one: The American Will: to Sacrifice for an Ideal
part two: Economic Tyranny and the American Spirit
part three: The Word, the Idea of Propery, and the Creation of a True American Culture
Celebration and Theater: A People's Art of Statecraft (link to web-essay)
links to other essaysBasic Conceptions: fundamentals of a new social view
Civil Society: its potential and its mystery
Beyond Columbine: appreciating the patterns of social meaning hidden in the Columbine tragedy
The Future
The Coming Collapse - civilization at the brink
see also The Social-Spiritual Organism of a Waldorf School Community http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/ssows.html et seq; and, Threshold Problems in Thinking the Threefold Social Order http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/thpts.html
Introducing Barbara Gardner: Barbara is a Scottish visionary thinker, very interested in social life, especially politics and economics. Here is an outstanding, though small, book of her's Aesthetics of Economics and The Scottish Masonic Tradition and, a remarkable essay that won an award in Scotland: The Constitutional Question: Conscience Politics
a small meditation on the spiritual path pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson, including a report of some practical applications - this was an address given on the occasion of the 200th aniversary of Emerson's birth, at the Concord School of Philosophy - May 25th, 2003, under the auspices of the Center for America Studies at Concord MA.
"there is no true self government, in a political sense, if there is not
an equal proportion of 'self-governing', by the individual of himself, in a moral sense"*
*from my essay: Song of the Grandfathers: Unconventional Wisdom (real
wealth) and the redemption of Social and Political Existence (civilization)
books
- the links below are to free reading that can be found on my website,Uncommon Sense: the Degeneration and the Redemption of Political Life in America {concerns the failure of both parties to protect the Republic, and how through Citizen Governance We the People can move our public life forward by considering a 2nd Declaration of Independence and the creation of a new Constitution }
Shapes in the Fire,
if you want a physical book to hold in your hand,
those can be purchased at my bookstore
Joel Wendt's Theory of Everything Emporium
On the Nature of Public Life is a collection of older essays on politics and social existence (except for a couple original to the book) that also can be found elsewhere on this website
Hermit's Weblog: everything your mother never told you about how the world really works. The link here is to the blog.
Counter-Moves: Finding victory in the war the rich are making upon the poor (also contained in the appendix to Uncommon Sense).
Sign a Second Declaration of Independence here
link to older YouTube material on this subject:
Welcome to the Second American Revolution
link to beginning of Youtube playlist on this theme:
In Praise of the American Spirit
http://www.youtube.com/user/joel232001#p/c/502796B282CEA9F1/0/Ye0o5FMavjk
list of single videos on this theme
#1 the gift of unemployment (part one): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ye0o5FMavjk
#2 the gift of unemployment (part two): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jMPBxszLjo
#3 the gift of unemployment (part three): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7cI7_fEgOo
#4 the gift of unemployment (part four): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gfDJzyvM_w
#5 foreclosures - and the changing tide of consent (part one) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q2WAyIz13YY
#6 foreclosures - and the changing tide of consent (part two) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjN4h_Fh7ec
#7 foreclosures - and the changing tide of consent (part three) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YAXFPZWNJ9k
#8 foreclosures - and the changing tide of consent (part four) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbTuROM6leY
#9 We have met the enemy and he is us (one part only) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgfSCK9zT90
#10 the extraordinary ordinary (part one) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2MDWcCbDxZQ
#11 the extraordinary ordinary (part two) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FsAPo5uvRRU
#12 the extraordinary ordinary (part three) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4thuClNkSdA
#13 the extraordinary ordinary (part four) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EScdHeJBUL4
#14 the extraordinary ordinary (part five) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUqTZl1-BC0
#15 the extraordinary ordinary (part six) http:///www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFJWPcNfwPo
