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TITLE: NOW THAT THE WORLD HAS ENDED, WHAT’S NEXT? by George Elerick (www.crosscultureconsultancy.com) (scproductions.moonfruit.com)
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Overview To!y revol"#io$ %!& beco'e ! (!, ! wor, !$ $o#%i$g 'ore) I# %!& iro$ic!lly bee$ c!*#iv!#e by c!*i#!li&' !$ co$&"'*#io$) +ro' +ro' i#& *!roy o( #%e "b!$ revol"#io$!ry revol"#io$!ry,, %e G"ev!r! o$#o !$y#%i$g !$ every#%i$g #o i#& c"rre$# %eig%# o( celebri#y (!&%io$, !$y %o*e (or re!l revol"#io$ %!& bee$ e&&e$#i!lly '!rgi$!li-e !$ !b!$o$e (or &o'e#%i$g 'ore &#erile !$ co''o$*l!ce) To %!ve ! revol"#io$ #o!y, we &i'*ly %!ve #o &%ow "* wi#% o"r #o*ic o( c%oice, billbo!r&, b"ll%or$&, &#!$ !$ &%o"# !$ le!ve #%e *l!ce %ow we le(# i#) I( we’re %o$e&#, !$y %o*e (or ! revol"#io$ %!& lo$g ie be(ore i# eve$ begi$&) This will be an investigation into the the curr current ent cultural phenomen phenomena a of Revolution. Revolutio n. The language of revolution today has been exhausted and overused through Leftist ideology. Although this book will look at certain historical revolutions it will mainly look at how the idea itself has been co!opted co! opted by pop!culture (i.e. "he #uevara on a T!shir T!shirt) t) and has been reduced to nothing more than a fad. $t will look l ook also at where %talin went wrong and the positive outcomes of a new kind of &concentrated communism' communism' (i.e. what is mine is yours and etc.) might be the only way forward. .) $t will explore the dierent forms of revolution from ccupy *all %treetactual to sit!ins sit!in s and provide provid key elements to process cr create eateactually and apply plausible stepseto creating a revolution that will change global (rather than the typical idealist approach of revolution happening on a small scale + i.e. every little thing matters) systems institutions ideologies and identities, where people think small changes matter, this book is against that) systems in the argument that systems are that which mediate us from ever having a real revolution. /) T%e '!i$ !r !rg"'e$ g"'e$## o( #%i& boo book k will be ce$#re ce$#re !ro"$ #% #%e e #%e&i&, #%!# re!l0#i'e revol"#io$ i& #%e o$ly o*#io$ we %!ve le(# !$ #o *rovie vi!ble &#e*& #o e$!c# &"c% ! revol"#io$) 1) All the title presents itself a tour!guide the main reason for this title is to attract the widest audience as possible as this will be written for the everyday person who tends to get lost either in academic rhetoric or political -ockeying.
2) ther areas explored in this book will be current events under the banner of revolution revolution $%$% R Religious eligious privati/ation of belief 0erguson American 1olitics $nstitutional 2ias "ultural 2ias #lobali/ation #ender 1olitics. /) o$#e$#&
Revol"#io$: I o$’# #%i$k yo" k$ow w%!# 'e!$& There is a phenomena phenomena erupting in the * *est est that situates th the e idea of revolution right in the middle of everyday life. 2ut the idea of revolution as something we can -ust talk about tames the very spirit of revolution. This chapter is an introduction to where we have gone wrong to the pop! culture appropriation appropriation of revolution and to the virtual domestication of real change (i.e. facebook as a place to talk about revolution but not do it, the place of revolution as having been controlled by government (i.e. you can come here for 3 hours and picket and then make sure you clean up after yourselves). We '"&# Re'e'ber #o +orge#: Le# T%e De! 3"ry T%e De! This will be a historical exploration exploration of the notion and development of revolution. *hat were the conditions (social religious ethical ecological and everyday conditions) that demanded the impossible4 %talin will be a main point of feature as many look to him as a leader in communist thought. $t will also look at his misinterpretation of 5arx6s herm hermeneutic eneutic of how a society needed to 7rst be an industrialist one before "ommunism could work. This will also be a critical engagement with how communism has developed today and where it has gone wrong and why we need a more ecumenical kind of communism. *e *e will also investigate my approach to a 8concentrated communism6 and why we need that. A Novel Revol"#io$ 9ostalgia today is typically marginali/ed as something too idealistic restraining or too steeped in the past. %omething so melancholic andtoo wistful that we would never be able to engage with the future. :owever this chapter is an investigation into why the current structur structure e surrounding the desire for revolution lacks this integral element. $t is not that we need to be nostalgic for some primordial loss on the contrary we need to be nostalgic for what we have yet to grasp namely the future. (*hich is where $ think many books on Revo Revolution lution fall short). Do$’# 3elieve 4o" !$ T%e Worl: %!$ge I# The overused idealist maxim maxim stolen fr from om #handi wher where e we are mean meantt to &be the change;' doesn6t take into account that the world is itself a community and so #handi6s axiom only splinters us back into our western lull of minimal philanthropy (i.e. $ can go to <enya and help reduce poverty) all the while hiding our own implicit role in creating it (i.e wealth
creates poverty). $t was 5arx who made the point that philosophy will not change anything belief is part of such a philosophy philosophy.. That we must go beyond belief to action. 2eyond rhetoric (as seen in 2rand6s media! fren/ied revolution). To see a revolution cannot be messianic but must be communally initiated. How To S#!r# A Revol"#io$ This chapter as the title title says will be looking at practical practical steps. Again not simply looking to history to dictate such a move but looking at Revolution on a global scale. $t will entail investigation into the work of sociology psychoanalysis cultural theory and the voices that have become prominentt in the last => years (including %lavo- ?i/ek 9oam "homsk prominen "homsky y Russel 2rand 9icaraguan Revolution @oices from 2osnia $sis and etc.). This is where where the book will be uite dier dierent ent and mor more e visual and action! based (i.e. will include concrete stages to develop, i.e. lifestyle changes beliefs setting up communities utili/ing all types of media and how to re! create a new world beyond the laws in place).
1) Re!er&%i* The geographic market market will be centered centered initially in the * *est est with of course the goal being international. The whole notion of this book is that we can have a revolution without everyone, hence why it has to be written in a marketable way for as wide an audience as possible. 2) o'*e#i$g #i#le& A description of the book in relation to competing titles. This should include T%e 4e!r o( Dre!'i$g D!$gero"&ly D!$gero"&ly by by %lavo- ?i/ek (=>B=)
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0reudPs topological structure of the $d %uperego and Ggo has been an invaluable tool not only for psychoanalysis but also for cultural theory. theory. :owever one ma-or critiue that has been sustained throughout 0reudPs 0reudPs longstanding history is his binary claim that most of reality can be summed up either through sex or aggression. Hie!hard 0reudians know this is an under!appreciated reduction of 0reudPs context. :owever this reduction has also been in pop!culture if not co! opted by it. ne way out of such an ideological deadlock is to revisit 0reudPs 0reudPs work in these areas via pop!culture and discover how one can still maintain a certain cer tain proximity to 0reudPs 0reudPs initial claims (which $ claim belongs to a subset of other possibilities). The possibilities can be re!activated not only through a proper reading of 0reudian 0reudian thought but also via culture itself via the philosophy of postmodernism. 2 AIHR$LLARH 0RGIH A% A RGAHGR 0 2AIHR$LLARH
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This is an area that that is still uite new in that (although 0reud 0reud had worked worked on Gthics at large) 0reud 0reud has directly never had to deal with a lot of the new technological changes of today. today. *hat would the psychoanalytic prophet have to say about 2ioGthics and where it is heading today4 1ost!humanism is becoming an ever! increasing philosophy that has immense merit due to the reality of technology becoming more central to our daily lives. *here would 0r 0reud eud stand on this4 :ow would a 0reudian synopsis allow for proper discourse4 +RED, LAAN, A++ET < S3ETICIT4: S3ETICIT4:
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