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Knowledge Reform » Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com Inspirational Words of Wisdom, Knowledge & Philosophy Resource Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:16:28 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Wisdom Books: Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/02/02/wisdom-books-four-arguments-for-the-elimination-of-television-by-jerry-mander/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/02/02/wisdom-books-four-arguments-for-the-elimination-of-television-by-jerry-mander/#comments Thu, 02 Feb 2012 12:20:39 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=13161 A total departure from previous writing about television, this book is the first ever to advocate that the medium is not reformable. Its problems are inherent in the technology itself and are so dangerous — to personal health and sanity, to the environment, and to democratic processes — that TV ought to be eliminated forever. [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/02/02/wisdom-books-four-arguments-for-the-elimination-of-television-by-jerry-mander/feed/ 0 Thought-Provoking Documentaries: Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/30/thought-provoking-documentaries-vox-populi-methods-of-manipulation/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/30/thought-provoking-documentaries-vox-populi-methods-of-manipulation/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 11:08:56 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=13153 COTO Report and Megan ‘Verb’ Kargher are pleased to present Vox Populi, Methods of Manipulation. It has become increasingly evident that large portions of the planet are descending at an alarming speed into Orwellian police states. What is the New World Order and what are their plans for mankind? How can we stop the corruption [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/30/thought-provoking-documentaries-vox-populi-methods-of-manipulation/feed/ 0 Quotes of Wisdom: H.L. Mencken http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/30/quotes-of-wisdom-h-l-mencken/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/30/quotes-of-wisdom-h-l-mencken/#comments Mon, 30 Jan 2012 10:53:31 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=10673 “The most dangerous man, to any government, is the man who is able to think things out for himself without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane and intolerable, and so, if he is romantic, he tries to change [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/30/quotes-of-wisdom-h-l-mencken/feed/ 0 Wisdom Books: Discourses of Epictetus http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/24/wisdom-books-discourses-of-epictetus/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/24/wisdom-books-discourses-of-epictetus/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:49:21 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=13116 Product Description Epictetus, a Greek stoic and freed slave, ran a thriving philosophy school in Nicropolis in the early second century AD. His animated discussions were celebrated for their rhetorical wizardry and were written down by Arrian, his most famous pupil. Together with the Enchiridion, a manual of his main ideas, and the fragments collected [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/24/wisdom-books-discourses-of-epictetus/feed/ 0 Technology and Information Overload – The Purveyors of Ignorance and Superfluity http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/19/technology-and-information-overload-the-purveyors-of-ignorance-and-superfluity/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/19/technology-and-information-overload-the-purveyors-of-ignorance-and-superfluity/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:48:02 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12989 What can be said about information overload? With the advent of the media and technology, especially in regards the television, the computer and invention of the Internet, we have unlimited access to information and knowledge more than at anytime in human history. We are continuously bombarded daily with superfluous information no matter how useless or [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/19/technology-and-information-overload-the-purveyors-of-ignorance-and-superfluity/feed/ 2 Thought-Provoking Documentaries: Krishnamurti – The Real Revolution http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/16/thought-provoking-documentaries-krishnamurti-the-real-revolution/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/16/thought-provoking-documentaries-krishnamurti-the-real-revolution/#comments Mon, 16 Jan 2012 10:07:03 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12132 Jiddu Krishnamurti is regarded globally as one of the greatest thinkers and religious teachers of all time. He did not expound any philosophy or religion, but rather talked of the things that concern all of us in our everyday lives, of the problems of living in modern society with its violence and corruption, of the [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/16/thought-provoking-documentaries-krishnamurti-the-real-revolution/feed/ 0 Knowledge Reform: Best of 2011 http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/12/knowledge-reform-best-of-2011/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/12/knowledge-reform-best-of-2011/#comments Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:16:25 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12910 Happy New Year one and all! Yes, I know it’s a bit late but I’ll say it anyway. Hopefully you all had a good Pagan (or whatever you want to call Christmas) break and are now fully reinvigorated for the year ahead. But don’t leave 2011 just yet, as I have decided to put together [...]

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]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2012/01/09/2012-end-of-the-world-or-the-end-of-ignorance/feed/ 0 Wisdom Books: The Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/29/wisdom-books-the-nicomachean-ethics-by-aristotle/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/29/wisdom-books-the-nicomachean-ethics-by-aristotle/#comments Thu, 29 Dec 2011 15:14:56 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12877 In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul in accordance with virtue’, for example with moral virtues, such as courage, generosity and justice, and intellectual virtues, such as knowledge, wisdom and insight. The Ethics also discusses the nature of practical [...]

]]> http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/29/wisdom-books-the-nicomachean-ethics-by-aristotle/feed/ 0 Aristotle’s Practical Wisdom Towards Living Virtuously http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/22/aristotles-practical-wisdom-towards-living-virtuously/ http://www.knowledgereform.com/2011/12/22/aristotles-practical-wisdom-towards-living-virtuously/#comments Thu, 22 Dec 2011 12:17:35 +0000 Jason Cooper http://www.knowledgereform.com/?p=12826 “Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Goethe starts this post with an apt quote which states, perhaps wisely, how one should apply the knowledge and experiences, they have accumulated in life, towards making the best possible decisions. Therefore, by making a reasoned [...]

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