Discussing Movies

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Discussing Movies

Do you enjoy lifelong learning?? Would you like to connect with others who also immensely enjoy learning, sharing, and empowerment through the collective wisdom of your diverse community? How often have you been part of a really stimulating conversation that was life-altering or prompted you to take surprising action? By using selected videos as a starting point, we will begin collectively addressing topics that are important to YOU. In our rapidly changing world, it is easy to become disoriented and lose your bearings. Sadly, in the western world our disconnectedness with each other and the world around us has mushroomed out of control but the good news is that we have the power to reverse that trend by making a few simple choices. Frank, open exchanges can stabilize as well as harmonize and reconnect us, especially if “learning” is your idea of fun. No discussion topics should be off limits.

Oku Singer is the organizer of a local movie discussion group project. His love of teaching goes back to early adulthood and that first position as a volunteer teacher assistant in a Project Head Start classroom. Since then he has accumulated many years of teaching and engineering experience with: business & industry (12), grades Pre-K thru 12 (5), community colleges (7), tutoring academies (3), top-ranked American engineering university (9), and solar engineer (6).

INVENTION SCHOOL’S SIGNATURE SERIES

The technological progress of Africa and its diasporans was dramatically broken beginning with slavery and later through its colonization by European powers. With the arrival of the 21st century, a new era of an awakened Africa has dawned. In the graphic novel series “Invention School”, curious young African students explore their creative potential for solving everyday problems through a subset of engineering skills under the watchful and loving guidance of an expatriate African American engineering professor. Watch this uplifting graphic novel series. If you find the series and its content useful, please share widely.

GORGING YOUR LEARNING APPETITE

Powerful media giants continue feeding us steady diets of stories, games, music, and images of exploitation, mayhem, helplessness, victimization, sexism, murder, adultery, preposterous wealth, torture, drugs, deceit, vampires, zombies, thuggery, glorified gangsterism, demonic spirits, horror, war, despair, brutality, crime, vengeance, sex, addiction, psychic disorders, occultism, savagery, lust, hate, prejudicial beauty/virtue standards, and stale mind-numbing escapism. Never underestimate the power of the subliminal messaging in this media content to accustom your subconscious to your further takeover and control. The groundwork is being laid and we are being deliberately manipulated for easier subjugation. The “collusion” between Hollywood and complicit agencies like the CIA is clear. Hollywood has played a little known role as a propaganda machine for the US national security apparatus for many years. Carefully look at the proportion (you’ll be shocked) of currently available movie fare that embodies these themes rather than embodying themes that uplift, transform, and inspire. “Just coincidence”, you say? After a steady diet of this psychic fare (garbage in, garbage out), what normal person would ever be in a position or mindset to connect and collaboratively formulate creative solutions and healing to man-made problems that beset humanity, earth lifeforms, and Mother Earth herself? These incapacitating but profitable offerings by these media giants stifle any visions of progress and action we might otherwise take to deliver ourselves out of the quagmires our modern societies have created that affect the entire world. Why do these companies market and sell so much of this awful, depraved content?? Could it be: