Benjamin Britton > Recent Status Updates

“But for now, UpFront is a small but effective alternative to the well-funded and politically popular programs that leave young people misinformed and unprepared to make intelligent, healthy decisions in their lives.”

“One component of its [P.S.24] success has been the integration of what’s called social and emotional learning, which includes mediation and negotiation, communicating clearly and active listening, understanding and expressing feelings and valuing diversity to counter prejudice”

“But the failure of zero tolerance, reflected in the epidemic of students suspended and pushed out of schools, is becoming harder to ignore.”

"Of course, where men are shot point blank, there are no wounded."
•Fidel Castro

"Of course, where men are shot point blank, there are no wounded."
•Fidel Castro

“And then we’re hearing about the prospect of this shock-and-awe budget, which some people are calling a “skinny” budget. Which is like an alt-right rebranding thing. It isn’t a “skinny” budget, it is a savage budget. It is about cutting $10 trillion over ten years.”

Naomi Klein

“And then we’re hearing about the prospect of this shock-and-awe budget, which some people are calling a “skinny” budget. Which is like an alt-right rebranding thing. It isn’t a “skinny” budget, it is a savage budget. It is about cutting $10 trillion over ten years.”

: Naomi Klein

“Maufas says accounts indicate that one of the new SROs called on her radio for backup with the code used for an “officer down” situation. The sheriff’s department had deputies in the area, and about thirty of them joined in, thinking that their fear of gang troubles had blown up,”

Almost a quarter of a century later, in a letter dated August 11, 1881, Engels speaks of the “worst English trade unions which allow themselves to be led by men sold to, or at least paid by, the middle class”.

“Right now I’m looking at some kind of strategy long-term that might have an impact. Anything that would stem the flow of kids with disabilities into the juvenile justice system.”

“By helping to lay the legal, legislative and political infrastructure, these warriors have assisted the rise of a drug-testing industry in which they have clear financial interests, and provided the ideological cover for student drug testing.”

“The non-economic superstructure which grows up on the basis of finance capital, its politics and its ideology, stimulates the striving for colonial conquest.”

“To substitute the question of the form of the struggle and agreements (today peaceful, tomorrow warlike, the next day warlike again) for the question of the substance of the struggle and agreements between capitalist associations is to sink to the role of a sophist.”

I first heard of Zizek through my brother, who described
him to me as "crazy, a hothead." Interesting, perhaps, but
untrustworthy. Not a solid chap, but an interestingly unre-
liable narrator of history, a wearer of clown motley, a
Shakespearean Fool. My brother must have known that,
based on this sketch, I would become a fan.

the Hegelian subject emerges precisely by way of the
reflective, self-relating, reapplication of a logical operator,
as in the worn-out joke about the cannibal who ate the last
cannibal in the tribe.

in an old soviet joke, a listener asks Radio Erevan:
"Did Rabinovitch win a new car in the state lottery?" Radio
Erevan replies: "In principle, yes — he did. Only it was not a
car but a bicycle, it was not new but old, and he did not win
it, it was stolen from him!"

A believer is complaining,
"I was promised contact with God, divine grace, but now
I am totally alone, abandoned by God, destitute, suffer-
ing, with only a miserable death awaiting me! "The divine
voice then answers him, "You see, now you are effectively
one with God — with Christ suffering on the cross!"

"The country cannot continue begging on its knees for miracles from a few golden caves, similar to the biblical one destroyed by the fury of a prophet. Golden caves cannot perform miracles of any kind."

"It matters little that those worthy and valiant young men have been condemned, if tomorrow the people will condemn the Dictator and his henchmen."
Fidel Castro

“As a private company, Interquest has an edge over drug-dog sweeps done by local police agencies, which are held to much stricter legal definitions of reasonable suspicion of drug or alcohol possession and unreasonable search.”

"But the people are so cowed and disorganized. A few might take the opportunity to protest. But it'll just be a voice crying in the wilderness."

"Happiness is a prison, Evey. Happiness is the most insidious prison of all."

“As an adjunct to the criminal justice system, his product may be useful, but Measom cannot claim to have prevented any crimes in school. Indeed, the majority of sexual abuse and assaults of children occur in or near their homes—Jessica Lundsford was murdered by a neighbor.”

"… But it was my integrity that was important. Is that so selfish? It sells for so little, but it is all we have left in this place. It is the very last inch of us… But within that inch we are free."

"It was like hell. Men burning... choking in the yellow fog. And a black shape against the flames. A man."

"Fascists should know the strength of weapons in the hands of Soviet supermen."

"Life is beautiful. Let the future generations cleanse it of all evil, oppression and violence and enjoy it to the full."
L. Trotsky,
Coyoacán, 27 February 1940.

"The All-Union Communist Party- Bolsheviks- The Assault Army of Socialism"

"The working classes struggle for education because they need it for victory."
•Lenin

"Cleanse the Party of Class Aliens and Hostile Elements, Degenerates, Opportunists, Double-Dealers, Careerists, Self-Seekers, Bureaucrats and Morally-Decayed Persons."