Youth Advocacy
Youth Advocacy
Year 3, Week 44 (182 total reports)
31.10.2023-19.10.2023
REVIEW and ANNOUNCEMENTS
Advocating for young people in a time of global atrocities and conscientious stupidity.
Best Links of The Week
31.10.2023
Navigating The Future: 10 Global Trends That Will Define 2024
The only way to navigate the future is to learn from the past. It would seem this is self-evident and yet, there are solidifying minority groups of people who are intent on either hiding the past or rewriting it. I can think of only two reasons why a group of people would want to pursue this erroneous and dangerous ideology; 1. to hide complicity and/or to repeat the atrocities.
30.10.2023
Ignorance: A Philosophical Study
https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/ignorance-a-philosophical-study/
The epistemology of ignorance is often called Agnotology. Martin Luther King, Jr. once said, “Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Conscientious stupidity means that you are making a decision to live in error or to believe untruths or misinformation. It is important we understand the difference between being ignorant and choosing ignorance.
29.10.2023
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/identity-trap-story-ideas-power-time-bookbite/45829/
Nothing is more powerful than the stories we concoct about ourselves and the myths we concoct about our society. Yascha Mounk, offers a guideline on how we can get trapped inside our own stories and myths and the dangers therein.
28.10.2023
The Cost of War Will Be Counted in Children’s Lives
https://apple.news/AHJz2szZBQ3izYOXT9edLeQ
By any reckoning, the lives of thousands of children have been lost in Gaza since October 7. This Atlantic article puts the figure at 480 child casualties A DAY! According to the Gun Violence Archive, the number of children (0-11) that have been killed from gun violence in the US during 2023 is 248 and the number of injuries is 555. Of course, none of this describes the lifelong emotional damage done to children during this timespan. It also does not include the number of children that have lost a family member, supportive adult, or personal friend. This type of trauma is multigenerational and epigenetic, in other words, it will affect our societies for generations and even impact the genes we pass on to generations yet unborn. Each death is a thread and every thread is connected to the heart and soul of who we are collectively as human beings. Numbers cannot possibly represent the cost. Despite the ignorance of politicians like House Speaker (for-the-moment), Mike Johnson, this violence is NOT our “heart” and we shouldn’t begin to acquiesce and accept these atrocities as representative of who we’ve become as a species.
27.10.2023
‘How Much Blood Is Your Fun Worth?’
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/lewiston-maine-mass-shooting-guns/675790/
This article, written by a former resident of Maine, near where the October 25 shooting in Lewiston occurred, asks what cost we are willing to pay in order for gun enthusiasts to have a weapon developed with the sole purpose of being used in war. The NRA and the congress people they have bought would like you to think this is a canary-in-the-coal-mine issue, but it is not. It is an issue about human lives and lethal play toys.
26.10.2023
Georgia's lieutenant governor wants to pay teachers $10,000 a year to carry guns at school
Who, but the NRA, and their bought-and-paid-for flunkeys would believe that the presence of additional weapons would lead to a reduction in deaths? There is no research to support this investment, just as there is no research behind a half-a-dozen other cockamamy schemes the gun lobbies are trying to push on America to keep their weapons and bullets on the market. All evidence shows: it’s about the guns.
25.10.2023
More Americans say they support political violence ahead of the 2024 election
The violent rhetoric of Donald Trump and his minions is having a deadly impact on the psyche of our democracy. The numbers in this study are not just disconcerting, they are a cry for admonishment of all those who are sowing the seeds that violence is an acceptable alternative to choosing the losing side. Imagine a little league team that is encouraged to use their bats on the opposing team because they lost a game. The numbers of Trump followers supporting violence is staggering. Putin and other global authoritarians couldn’t be more pleased with what the Koch Brothers, the Murdochs, and their carnie, Donald Trump, has done to democracy in the United States.
This Week’s Links
31.10.2023
Navigating The Future: 10 Global Trends That Will Define 2024
Florida teen defies 'Don’t Say Gay' law and teaches class about Stonewall uprising
What Is ‘Servant Leadership,’ Exactly? HR and DEI Experts Share What It Looks Like in the Workplace
https://parade.com/living/servant-leadership
4 Phrases Every Creative Person Uses
30.10.2023
Ignorance: A Philosophical Study
https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/ignorance-a-philosophical-study/
Gun control advocates press gridlocked Congress after mass shooting in Maine
How AI Can Tackle 5 Global Challenges
https://www.worth.com/how-ai-can-tackle-5-global-challenges/
Ready or Not, AI is Here: How K-12 Schools Should Respond
https://www.edweek.org/events/webinar/ready-or-not-ai-is-here-how-k-12-schools-should-respond
White House drops an AI regulation bombshell — 10 mandates that'll shake up the industry
https://mashable.com/article/white-house-drops-ai-regulation-bombshell
Google Bard asked Bill Nye how AI can help avoid the end of the world. Here's what 'The Science Guy' said
Prisons are banning thousands of books
https://www.axios.com/2023/10/29/prisons-books-banned-report-censorship
Next Generation of Students Might Be Ignorant of U.S. Racial History
https://www.thedailybeast.com/next-generation-of-students-might-be-ignorant-of-us-racial-history
Youth with conduct problems may have diminished activity in brain areas linked to empathy and social learning
Boys keep failing to do as well graduating high school as girls, baffling experts: ‘It’s not a structural racism issue’
https://fortune.com/2023/10/29/why-do-boys-fail-to-graduate-high-school-like-girls/
29.10.2023
The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/identity-trap-story-ideas-power-time-bookbite/45829/
One Good Thing: How to change your life in 6 minutes a day
https://www.stylist.co.uk/health/mental-health/one-good-thing-write-six-minutes-a-day/835301
On being a man: Andrew Tate and Donald Trump are the worst possible examples
28.10.2023
The Cost of War Will Be Counted in Children’s Lives
https://apple.news/AHJz2szZBQ3izYOXT9edLeQ
Israel's Western philosophy can't beat Hamas ideology - opinion
https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-770390
Louisiana's 'In God We Trust' law tests limits of religion in public schools
Breaking Free of Grudges
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/complicated-love/202310/breaking-free-of-grudges
Use the 'Method of Loci' to Remember Anything
https://lifehacker.com/loci-method-remember-anything-on-a-test-1850963999
White House hits Johnson over claiming gun violence was a matter of the ‘heart’
https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/27/white-house-johnson-gun-violence-00124001
27.10.2023
‘How Much Blood Is Your Fun Worth?’
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/10/lewiston-maine-mass-shooting-guns/675790/
The Neuroscience of Storytelling
https://www.inc.com/carmine-gallo/the-neuroscience-of-storytelling.html
Why the green, circular economy is key to beating the triple planetary crisis
Daily Practices to Unlock The Power of Now
https://thetaoist.online/daily-practices-to-unlock-the-power-of-now-c52f572a375c
Meet the evangelical activist who’s had a 'profound influence' on Speaker Mike Johnson
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/evangelical-activist-influence-speaker-mike-johnson-rcna122313
Who Is Rep. Virginia Foxx, the Antigay, Trump-Loving, Mike Johnson Supporter?
https://www.advocate.com/politics/virginia-foxx-anti-lgbtq-record
Vermont’s Largest School District Unanimously Codifies Trans Rights for Students
Footage Reveals How the Koch Network Plans to Gut Federal Agencies
https://newrepublic.com/post/176466/footage-reveals-koch-network-plans-gut-federal-agencies
26.10.2023
Georgia's lieutenant governor wants to pay teachers $10,000 a year to carry guns at school
Unleashing Your Sixth Sense: The Power of Neuroception
Why You Should Hug Your Kid For At Least 20 Seconds
https://www.fatherly.com/parenting/20-second-hug-kids
Ron DeSantis compares elementary school teachers to Hamas terrorists
Time to treat the climate and nature crisis as one indivisible global health emergency, says widely published editorial
https://phys.org/news/2023-10-climate-nature-crisis-indivisible-global.html
What to say instead of ‘I’m sorry’
https://www.fastcompany.com/90972667/what-to-say-instead-of-im-sorry
As a Psychologist With ADHD, Here Are 6 Things That Get On Our Nerves
https://www.verywellmind.com/things-that-bug-adhders-8358226
Being humble about what you know is just one part of what makes you a good thinker
The One Thing You Need To Stop Doing If You Actually Want To Be Happy
https://www.yourtango.com/self/thing-you-need-stop-doing-want-be-happy
Unlocking the "D Factor": A New Measure for General Distractibility in ADHD - Neuroscience News
https://neurosciencenews.com/d-factor-adhd-24994/
How to Focus: 9 Science-Backed Ways to Block Out the Noise and Improve Your Concentration
https://www.rd.com/article/how-to-focus/
25.10.2023
More Americans say they support political violence ahead of the 2024 election
The Trade Trap: How to Stop Doing Business with Dictators
https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/trade-trap-stop-business-dictators-bookbite/45760/
Biden’s Numbers, October 2023 Update
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/10/bidens-numbers-october-2023-update/
Mental health expert weighs in on anxiety and explains how it is strongly linked to addiction