Books read:
Modern Mongolia by Mossabi
The company of strangers by Seabright
Four archetypes by Jung
Girl with the golden eyes by Balzac
The media students' book by Gill Branston adn Roy stafford
Year 501 the conquest continues by Noam Chomsky
manufacturing consent by Noam chomsky
pedagogy of the oppressed by Paul Freire
the grand chessboard by zbigniew brzezinski
Foundations of John dewey's educational theory by baker
On education by Bertrand russell
the sociology of education by Baker
young people and new media by Sonia livingstone
The conquest of happiness by Bertrand russell
Bengali Nights by Mircea Eliade
Botswana A short political history by Anthony Sillery
Minerals in African Underdevelopment by Samuel Ochola
The Quest: history and meaning of religion
In search of prosperity by Doni Rodrik
Goldmund und Narziss by Hermann Hesse
Confessions of Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
From Confrontation to Coorperation
Year 501 the conquest continues by Noam Chomsky
Year 501 by Noam Chomsky:
p.11: [free trade] These were significat factors leading to the pacific war, as Japan set forth to emulate its powerful predecessors, having naively adopted their liberal doctirines only to discover that they were a fraud, imposed upon the weak, accepted by the strong only when they are useful. So it has always been.
p.32: Explaining that “the demographic catastrophe which befell early Latin America was .. caused not by wickedness byt by himan failing and by a form of fate: the grinding wheels of long-term historical change,” the London Economist writes that “Where cruelties and atrocities accurred, historians know of them precisely because of the 16th century Spanish passion for justice, for they were condemned by moralists or recorded and punished in the courts.”
p.43: The general point was clarified by Carter’s Latin America adviser Robert Pastor, at the critical extreme: the US wants other nations “to act independently, except when doing so would affect U.S. interests adversely2; the US has never wanted “to control them” as long as developments do not “et out of control”. Others can be quite free as long as they are “pragmatic.”
p.55: It was accelerated by the neoliberal economic doctrines dictated by the world rulers. The UN Economic Commission for Africa found that countries pursuing the recommended IMF programs had lower growth rates than those that relied on the public sector for basic human needs.
p.61: In the current version, “the construction of a new global system is orchestrated by the Group of Seven, the IMF, the World Bank, and the GATT” in “a system of indirect rule that has involved the integration of leaders of developing countries into the network of the new ruling class”- who, not surprisingly, turn out to be the old ruling class. Local managers can share the wealth, as long as they properly serve the rulers.
p.66: Foreign capital participation in Russian railways reached 93 percent by 1907, catpital for development was mostly foreign, largely French, and debt was rising rapibly, as Russia settled into the typical 3rd world pattern. By 1914, Russia was “becoming a semi-colonial possession of European capital”.
p.69: [Truman said] “if we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought ot help Germany and that way let them kill as many as possible.”
p.89: Again the lesson is clear: the priorities are profits and power; democracy in more than form is a threat to be overcome; human rights are of instrumental value for propaganda purposes, nothing more.
p.99: The truth of the matter was well articulated by a US banker in Venezuela under the murderous Perez Jimenez dictatorship: “You have the freedom here to do what you want to do with your money, and to me, that is worth all the political freedom in the world.” That about sums it up.
p.101: Case by case, the record of export-led growth refutes the doctrines of the neoliberal “new orthodoxy,” economist Stephen Smith points out. Success was based on “activist trade and industrial policies” that deliberately alter market incentives to place “long run development goals over short run comparative advantage”.
p.116: Like other developed countries, the US did not abide by the rules it now seeks to impose. IN the 19th century, the US reected foreign claims to intellectual property rights on grounds that they would hamper its economic development. Jpan followed the same course. And today, the concept of “intellectual property rights” is finly crafted to suit the needs of the powerful. Exactly as in the case of “free trade,” Churchill’s disruptive “hungry nations” with their indecent clamor are to be denied the methods that were used by the “rich men dwelling at peace within their habitaions.”
p.213: […] Father Aristide was overthrown in part because of concerns among politically active people over his commitment to the Constitution, and growing fears of political and class-based violence, which many believe the President endorsed.”
p.286:During periods of popular activism, it is often possible to salvage elements of truth from the miasma of “information” disseminated by the servants of power, and many people not only “consult their” neighbors” but learn a good deal about the world; Indochina and Central America are two striking recent examples. When activism declines, the commissar class, which never falters in its task, regains command. While left intellectiuals discourse polysyllabically to one another, truths that were once understood are buried, history is reshaped in to an instrument of power, and the ground is laid for the enterprises to come.
the grand chessboard by zbigniew brzezinski
THE GRAND CHESSBOARD by ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI
p.24: In brief, America stands supreme in the four decisive domains of global power: military, it has an unmatched global read; economically, it remains the main locomotive of global growth, even if challenged in some sspects by Japan and Germany; technologically, it retains the overall leas in the cutting-edge areas of innovation; and culturally, despite some crassness, it enjoys and appeal that is unrivalled, sespecailly among the world’s youth – all of which give s the US a political clout that no other state comes close to matching. It is the combination of all four that makes America the only comprehensive global superpower.
p.26: The American emphasis on political democracy and economic development thus combines to convey a simple ideaological message that appeals to many: the quest for individual success enhances freedom while generating wealth. The resulting blend of idealism and egoism is a potent combination. Individual self-fulfillment is said to be a God-given right that at the same time can benegit others by setting an example and by generating wealth. It is a doctrine that attracts the energetic, the ambitious and the highly competitive.
p.98: Barely a month after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he [Andrei Kozyrev] noted: “ IN abandoning messianism we set course for pragmatism. … we rapidly came to understand that geopolitics … is replacing ideology.”
p.140: The troubling fact is that some elements in Russian political elite act as if they prefer that the area’s resources not be developed at all if Russia cannot have complete control over access. Let the wealth remain unexploited if the alternative is that foreign investment will lead to more direct presence by foreign economic, and thus also political, interests. [it explains why the Russian minister came to Mongolia almost at the same time as Mr.Baker. Both were interested in the exploiting the natural resources. China gave 300 million US dollar loan, of which IMF did not have idea before the agreement. IMF thus helps Mongolia in checking the loan amount]
p.163: Some China experts have even prophesied that China might spin into one of its historic cycles of internal fracgmentation, thereby halting China’s march to greaness altogether. But the probability of such an extreme eventuality is diminished by the twin impacts of mass nationalism and modern communications, both of which work in favour of a unified Chinese state.
p.198: As in chess, American global planners must think several moves ahead, anticipating possible countermoves. A sustainable geostrategy must therefore distinguish between the short-run perspective, the middle run term, and the long run. Moreover, these phases must be viewed not as watertight compartments but as part of a continuum. The first phase must gradually and consistently lead into the second-indeed, be deliberately pointed toward it- and the second must tehn lead subsequently into the third.
Four archetypes by Jung
But why on earth," you may ask, "should it be necessary for man to achieve, by hook or by crook, a higher level of consciousness?" This is truly the crucial question, and I do not find the answer easy. Instead of a real answer I can only make a confession of faith: 1 believe that, after thousands and millions of years, someone had to realize that this wonderful world of mountains and oceans, suns and moons, galaxies and nebulae, plants and animals, exists. From a low hill in the Athi plains of East Africa I once watched the vast herds of wild animals grazing in soundless stillness, as they had done from time immemorial, touched only by the breath of a primeval world. I felt then as if I were the first man, the first creature, to know that all this is. The entire world round me was still in its primeval state; it did not know that it was. And then, in that one moment in which I came to know, the world sprang into being; without that moment it would never have been. All Nature seeks this goal and finds it fulfilled in man, but only in the most highly developed and most fully conscious man. "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype" (1939). In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. P. 177
The company of strangers by Seabright Paul.
p. 27: Two kinds of diposition have proved important to our evolution: a capacity for rational calculation of the costs and benefits of cooperation, and a tendency for what has been called reciprocity – the willingness to repay kindness with kindness and betrayal with revenge, even when this is not what rational calculation would recommend.
p.28: We frame rules for behaviour toward strangers that mimic the way we treat our family and our friends, and we reinforce these rules by explicit systems of incentives, as well as by eduction and traingin – an apprenticeship for social life that is designed to make opportunistic behaviour more uncomfortable for us.
p.46: Our emaitonal reaction to risk are still shaped by that hunter gatherer heritage. We treat those who suffer the hazards of life either as casualties of a blind chance that we may fear but cannot logically resent, or as victims – chosen sufferers of deliberate aggression to which the only emotional response is resentment and the only justifiable response, revenge.
51: It is well known that once a certain characteristic becomes a basis for sexual preference, such preferences can be self-reinforcing. This is a tendency that has been adduced to explain such runawayu evolutionary phenomena as the peacock’s tail and the large antlers of some species of deer. The fact that females in future generations will be attracted by some characteristic, even a wholly arbitrary one, increases the adaptive benefit to any female in the current genereation of seeking a mate that has that characteristic.
59: this led Cosmides and Tooby to conclude that our reasoning abilities are sensitive to context in ways that would have been beneficial for our ability to spot cheats during our evolutionary history.
61: At the same time that it disables people’s capacity for exercising trust wisely, alcohol is enabling people to inspire trust by stimulating an excellent signal of positive affect, namely laughter, that is not under direct voluntary control.
77: Balzac put in his novel Splenors and Miseries of the Courtesans: A girl with no income finds herself in the mud, as I was before I entered the convent. Men find her beautiful, they make her serve their pleasure without according her the smallest respect, they come for her in a carriage and then send her away on foot. If they never quite spit in her face, it is only her beauty that spares her this outrage. But let her inherit five, or six million, and she will be sought out by princes, saluted as she passes in her carriagel she can shoose form the most ancient coats of armas of France and Navarre. This world, which would have sneered at us [her and her impoverished lover] for being two handsome creatures, united an content, has constantly honoured Madame de Stael with her bohemian life, because she had an income of two hundred thousand livres. The world, which bows before Money and Glory has no wish to honour happiness and virtue.
p.100: in fact, the history of recent economic development suggests that the poor and the rich can have a mutual interest in exchange, but it’s important to remember that competitive markets are about exploring avenues of mutual interest, not about redressing pre-existing imbalances of power and wealth.
P212: the club that prehistoric man used to ward off attackers was the same club he used to attack others.
p.257: To manage the hazards imposed on us by the action s of strangers has required us to deploy a different skill bequeathed to us by evolution for quiote different purposes, the capacityfor abstract symbolic thought. Modern political institutions temper their appeals to the deep emotions, to family and clan loyalty, with just enough abstract reasoning to help Homo sapiens sapiens, they shy, murderous ape, emerge from his family bands in the savanna woodland in order to live and work in a world largely populated by strangers. This experiment is still young, and needs all the help it can get.
Modern Mongolia
p.60
Sumati […] and Hulan and Oyun claimed that in promoting rapid privatization and a weaker government, the international donors had not taked into consideration Mongolia’s hitroy of nepotism and favouritism. Such associations had been held in check during the communist era. With a less powerful government, the restraints were eliminated. The nexus of close relations, family or otherwise, among the small, generally well-educated, and comfortable elite in Ulaanbaatar also contributed to an environment of favouritism in which corruption flourished.
p.97
It [TDB] had a net profit of $6 million in 2000 and almost $5 million in 2001 and in the latter year, it contributed just undert $4 million to the Mongolian treasury. […]
Sonirhol tatahaar asuudal hondson 20-n huudsiig Canon-dov.
Modern Mongolia by Mossabi
The company of strangers by Seabright
Four archetypes by Jung
Girl with the golden eyes by Balzac
The media students' book by Gill Branston adn Roy stafford
Year 501 the conquest continues by Noam Chomsky
manufacturing consent by Noam chomsky
pedagogy of the oppressed by Paul Freire
the grand chessboard by zbigniew brzezinski
Foundations of John dewey's educational theory by baker
On education by Bertrand russell
the sociology of education by Baker
young people and new media by Sonia livingstone
The conquest of happiness by Bertrand russell
Bengali Nights by Mircea Eliade
Botswana A short political history by Anthony Sillery
Minerals in African Underdevelopment by Samuel Ochola
The Quest: history and meaning of religion
In search of prosperity by Doni Rodrik
Goldmund und Narziss by Hermann Hesse
Confessions of Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
From Confrontation to Coorperation
Year 501 the conquest continues by Noam Chomsky
Year 501 by Noam Chomsky:
p.11: [free trade] These were significat factors leading to the pacific war, as Japan set forth to emulate its powerful predecessors, having naively adopted their liberal doctirines only to discover that they were a fraud, imposed upon the weak, accepted by the strong only when they are useful. So it has always been.
p.32: Explaining that “the demographic catastrophe which befell early Latin America was .. caused not by wickedness byt by himan failing and by a form of fate: the grinding wheels of long-term historical change,” the London Economist writes that “Where cruelties and atrocities accurred, historians know of them precisely because of the 16th century Spanish passion for justice, for they were condemned by moralists or recorded and punished in the courts.”
p.43: The general point was clarified by Carter’s Latin America adviser Robert Pastor, at the critical extreme: the US wants other nations “to act independently, except when doing so would affect U.S. interests adversely2; the US has never wanted “to control them” as long as developments do not “et out of control”. Others can be quite free as long as they are “pragmatic.”
p.55: It was accelerated by the neoliberal economic doctrines dictated by the world rulers. The UN Economic Commission for Africa found that countries pursuing the recommended IMF programs had lower growth rates than those that relied on the public sector for basic human needs.
p.61: In the current version, “the construction of a new global system is orchestrated by the Group of Seven, the IMF, the World Bank, and the GATT” in “a system of indirect rule that has involved the integration of leaders of developing countries into the network of the new ruling class”- who, not surprisingly, turn out to be the old ruling class. Local managers can share the wealth, as long as they properly serve the rulers.
p.66: Foreign capital participation in Russian railways reached 93 percent by 1907, catpital for development was mostly foreign, largely French, and debt was rising rapibly, as Russia settled into the typical 3rd world pattern. By 1914, Russia was “becoming a semi-colonial possession of European capital”.
p.69: [Truman said] “if we see that Germany is winning we ought to help Russia and if Russia is winning we ought ot help Germany and that way let them kill as many as possible.”
p.89: Again the lesson is clear: the priorities are profits and power; democracy in more than form is a threat to be overcome; human rights are of instrumental value for propaganda purposes, nothing more.
p.99: The truth of the matter was well articulated by a US banker in Venezuela under the murderous Perez Jimenez dictatorship: “You have the freedom here to do what you want to do with your money, and to me, that is worth all the political freedom in the world.” That about sums it up.
p.101: Case by case, the record of export-led growth refutes the doctrines of the neoliberal “new orthodoxy,” economist Stephen Smith points out. Success was based on “activist trade and industrial policies” that deliberately alter market incentives to place “long run development goals over short run comparative advantage”.
p.116: Like other developed countries, the US did not abide by the rules it now seeks to impose. IN the 19th century, the US reected foreign claims to intellectual property rights on grounds that they would hamper its economic development. Jpan followed the same course. And today, the concept of “intellectual property rights” is finly crafted to suit the needs of the powerful. Exactly as in the case of “free trade,” Churchill’s disruptive “hungry nations” with their indecent clamor are to be denied the methods that were used by the “rich men dwelling at peace within their habitaions.”
p.213: […] Father Aristide was overthrown in part because of concerns among politically active people over his commitment to the Constitution, and growing fears of political and class-based violence, which many believe the President endorsed.”
p.286:During periods of popular activism, it is often possible to salvage elements of truth from the miasma of “information” disseminated by the servants of power, and many people not only “consult their” neighbors” but learn a good deal about the world; Indochina and Central America are two striking recent examples. When activism declines, the commissar class, which never falters in its task, regains command. While left intellectiuals discourse polysyllabically to one another, truths that were once understood are buried, history is reshaped in to an instrument of power, and the ground is laid for the enterprises to come.
the grand chessboard by zbigniew brzezinski
THE GRAND CHESSBOARD by ZBIGNIEW BRZEZINSKI
p.24: In brief, America stands supreme in the four decisive domains of global power: military, it has an unmatched global read; economically, it remains the main locomotive of global growth, even if challenged in some sspects by Japan and Germany; technologically, it retains the overall leas in the cutting-edge areas of innovation; and culturally, despite some crassness, it enjoys and appeal that is unrivalled, sespecailly among the world’s youth – all of which give s the US a political clout that no other state comes close to matching. It is the combination of all four that makes America the only comprehensive global superpower.
p.26: The American emphasis on political democracy and economic development thus combines to convey a simple ideaological message that appeals to many: the quest for individual success enhances freedom while generating wealth. The resulting blend of idealism and egoism is a potent combination. Individual self-fulfillment is said to be a God-given right that at the same time can benegit others by setting an example and by generating wealth. It is a doctrine that attracts the energetic, the ambitious and the highly competitive.
p.98: Barely a month after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, he [Andrei Kozyrev] noted: “ IN abandoning messianism we set course for pragmatism. … we rapidly came to understand that geopolitics … is replacing ideology.”
p.140: The troubling fact is that some elements in Russian political elite act as if they prefer that the area’s resources not be developed at all if Russia cannot have complete control over access. Let the wealth remain unexploited if the alternative is that foreign investment will lead to more direct presence by foreign economic, and thus also political, interests. [it explains why the Russian minister came to Mongolia almost at the same time as Mr.Baker. Both were interested in the exploiting the natural resources. China gave 300 million US dollar loan, of which IMF did not have idea before the agreement. IMF thus helps Mongolia in checking the loan amount]
p.163: Some China experts have even prophesied that China might spin into one of its historic cycles of internal fracgmentation, thereby halting China’s march to greaness altogether. But the probability of such an extreme eventuality is diminished by the twin impacts of mass nationalism and modern communications, both of which work in favour of a unified Chinese state.
p.198: As in chess, American global planners must think several moves ahead, anticipating possible countermoves. A sustainable geostrategy must therefore distinguish between the short-run perspective, the middle run term, and the long run. Moreover, these phases must be viewed not as watertight compartments but as part of a continuum. The first phase must gradually and consistently lead into the second-indeed, be deliberately pointed toward it- and the second must tehn lead subsequently into the third.
Four archetypes by Jung
But why on earth," you may ask, "should it be necessary for man to achieve, by hook or by crook, a higher level of consciousness?" This is truly the crucial question, and I do not find the answer easy. Instead of a real answer I can only make a confession of faith: 1 believe that, after thousands and millions of years, someone had to realize that this wonderful world of mountains and oceans, suns and moons, galaxies and nebulae, plants and animals, exists. From a low hill in the Athi plains of East Africa I once watched the vast herds of wild animals grazing in soundless stillness, as they had done from time immemorial, touched only by the breath of a primeval world. I felt then as if I were the first man, the first creature, to know that all this is. The entire world round me was still in its primeval state; it did not know that it was. And then, in that one moment in which I came to know, the world sprang into being; without that moment it would never have been. All Nature seeks this goal and finds it fulfilled in man, but only in the most highly developed and most fully conscious man. "Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype" (1939). In CW 8: The Structure and Dynamics of the Psyche. P. 177
The company of strangers by Seabright Paul.
p. 27: Two kinds of diposition have proved important to our evolution: a capacity for rational calculation of the costs and benefits of cooperation, and a tendency for what has been called reciprocity – the willingness to repay kindness with kindness and betrayal with revenge, even when this is not what rational calculation would recommend.
p.28: We frame rules for behaviour toward strangers that mimic the way we treat our family and our friends, and we reinforce these rules by explicit systems of incentives, as well as by eduction and traingin – an apprenticeship for social life that is designed to make opportunistic behaviour more uncomfortable for us.
p.46: Our emaitonal reaction to risk are still shaped by that hunter gatherer heritage. We treat those who suffer the hazards of life either as casualties of a blind chance that we may fear but cannot logically resent, or as victims – chosen sufferers of deliberate aggression to which the only emotional response is resentment and the only justifiable response, revenge.
51: It is well known that once a certain characteristic becomes a basis for sexual preference, such preferences can be self-reinforcing. This is a tendency that has been adduced to explain such runawayu evolutionary phenomena as the peacock’s tail and the large antlers of some species of deer. The fact that females in future generations will be attracted by some characteristic, even a wholly arbitrary one, increases the adaptive benefit to any female in the current genereation of seeking a mate that has that characteristic.
59: this led Cosmides and Tooby to conclude that our reasoning abilities are sensitive to context in ways that would have been beneficial for our ability to spot cheats during our evolutionary history.
61: At the same time that it disables people’s capacity for exercising trust wisely, alcohol is enabling people to inspire trust by stimulating an excellent signal of positive affect, namely laughter, that is not under direct voluntary control.
77: Balzac put in his novel Splenors and Miseries of the Courtesans: A girl with no income finds herself in the mud, as I was before I entered the convent. Men find her beautiful, they make her serve their pleasure without according her the smallest respect, they come for her in a carriage and then send her away on foot. If they never quite spit in her face, it is only her beauty that spares her this outrage. But let her inherit five, or six million, and she will be sought out by princes, saluted as she passes in her carriagel she can shoose form the most ancient coats of armas of France and Navarre. This world, which would have sneered at us [her and her impoverished lover] for being two handsome creatures, united an content, has constantly honoured Madame de Stael with her bohemian life, because she had an income of two hundred thousand livres. The world, which bows before Money and Glory has no wish to honour happiness and virtue.
p.100: in fact, the history of recent economic development suggests that the poor and the rich can have a mutual interest in exchange, but it’s important to remember that competitive markets are about exploring avenues of mutual interest, not about redressing pre-existing imbalances of power and wealth.
P212: the club that prehistoric man used to ward off attackers was the same club he used to attack others.
p.257: To manage the hazards imposed on us by the action s of strangers has required us to deploy a different skill bequeathed to us by evolution for quiote different purposes, the capacityfor abstract symbolic thought. Modern political institutions temper their appeals to the deep emotions, to family and clan loyalty, with just enough abstract reasoning to help Homo sapiens sapiens, they shy, murderous ape, emerge from his family bands in the savanna woodland in order to live and work in a world largely populated by strangers. This experiment is still young, and needs all the help it can get.
Bengali nights, Pedagogy of the oppressed, Howard Zinn zereg baigaa:LINK
Baabar's book excerpts: LINK
Anticorruption things:LINK
Rodrik and some other scholars wrote:LINK
From coorperation to confrontation:LINK
Modern Mongolia
p.60
Sumati […] and Hulan and Oyun claimed that in promoting rapid privatization and a weaker government, the international donors had not taked into consideration Mongolia’s hitroy of nepotism and favouritism. Such associations had been held in check during the communist era. With a less powerful government, the restraints were eliminated. The nexus of close relations, family or otherwise, among the small, generally well-educated, and comfortable elite in Ulaanbaatar also contributed to an environment of favouritism in which corruption flourished.
p.97
It [TDB] had a net profit of $6 million in 2000 and almost $5 million in 2001 and in the latter year, it contributed just undert $4 million to the Mongolian treasury. […]
Sonirhol tatahaar asuudal hondson 20-n huudsiig Canon-dov.
Mossabi Modern Mongolia LINK
Hermann Hesse's Goldmund und Narziss excerpt:LINK
Soviet Aid LINK
