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[TypicalGirls] HumanifestX September 2025 Update: You can take the teachers out of the classroom, but we're always in school.
- From: Dina Hornreich <hornreichdina AT gmail.com>
- To: Dina Hornreich <hornreichdina AT gmail.com>
- Subject: [TypicalGirls] HumanifestX September 2025 Update: You can take the teachers out of the classroom, but we're always in school.
- Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2025 12:29:29 -0400
Dear Friends (new and old):
I continue to ponder the impact of COVID quarantining as I am reassured that we simply need to accept that returning to our previously “precedented” times is not an option. We cannot “unsee” what we’ve witnessed upon adopting videoconferencing (e.g. Zoom) throughout this time. Teachers who saw their children outside of the classrooms got a chance to realize the things we don’t see (but parents’ couldn’t tell us). Supervisors were forced to rethink how to communicate with their clients and employees in order to provide their products and services under undesirable circumstances.
It seems evident that our entire infrastructure has become decentralized and overdifferentiated; and so we cannot return to those precedents we’ve established without getting trapped by these things which we cannot simply remove from our memory banks. Instead, we have to recognize those shared “blindspots” which we may have been exploiting just to avoid this mess (and have instead been perpetuating the status quo).
In this moment, we have to accept our new understandings and aggregate those disparate pieces into a new composite. And that is why I am trying to create resources for building a taskforce in solidarity for a participatory democracy of informed, engaged, & wise citizens who can live, learn, love, work, create, & grow individually, communally, and across the metaverse.
If separation of church and state doesn’t sanction immorality; then how should we proceed to prevent this ongoing mayhem of wanton ludicrousness? How can we begin laying the foundation for collaborative, egalitarian, & introspective discernments that impact our daily decision-making habits on numerous levels: healthcare, education, religion, arts & entertainment, economics, government, public safety, and beyond (i.e. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: we are hooked on bullsh*t and it is driving us DEIMOCKRAZY!)? Obviously, this must be a literacy piece!
First, we might revisit Neil Postman’s key principles for tech education:
Critical examination
Epistemological distance
Focus on human interaction
Balance and moderation
Media literacy
Beyond efficiency
Next, we can try to address Postman’s concerns about technology in education:
Trivialization of learning
Undermining of traditional values
Loss of critical thinking
Focus on skills over understanding
As a librarian, I tend to invoke Michael Gorman and his extrapolations on Ranganathan’s five laws of library science:
Libraries serve humanity
Respect all forms by which knowledge is communicated
Use technology intelligently to enhance service
Protect free access to knowledge
Honor the past and create the future
However, David Lankes defines “new librarianships” as improving society by facilitating “knowledge creation” in the communities whom we serve. Meanwhile, I’ve been contemplating the ongoing iterations of “Metaliteracy Goals and Learning Objectives” (updated 2025) which suggest that we need to level up from our current knowledge focus in order to support wisdom attainment; in other words: we should be validating social intuitionism for improved moral discernments and otherwise more explicitly prioritizing dispositional traits in order prevent another “industrial age” (as well as the unwanted residuals from the "information age”).
Norenzayan has talked about how religion has transformed cooperation into conflict; so where do we go from here? We could revisit the Oriya moral tribes!; but I am proposing the application Joshua Greene's rules for modern herders which is based on his research in moral reasoning:
Question moral instincts
Avoid appeals to rights and duties
Appealing to rights often ends the argument
Focus on the facts
Beware of biased fairness
Use a common currency
Make small sacrifices
Technology can coexist with the virtues; and we can relearn to trust teachers with school success too! We will have to create consilience to do that! And I think we’re getting closer than we ever have before; we may still be in the wake of Brown v. Board of Education! But we need to move past the Innovator’s Dilemma and similar disruptions. It’s time to stop paying for partying without forgetting why liberal education matters. Education should be crash proof, as the transformation is already underway (but don’t ask Charles Murray to create your lesson plans for you)! These are “cross purposes,” I’m able to admit! As we continue to be thinking through culture and the techno-social realities impact on the human mind.
Philosopher Rene DesCartes’ notion of dualism emphasizes the domain of thought, a proposal that has put us in a permanent state of cognitive dissonance. Trying to navigate through false binaries, dualities, and similar dialectical tensions feels like an exercise in futility. “Data feminist” principles support the existence of pluralistic epistemologies. So we should recognize not just contemplation, but also _expression_, connection, negotiation, reflection, interpretation, and reorganization. This is an integrative reproach for holistic recovery which recognizes the possibility of wisdom as a meta-heuristic in order to ensure the standards prioritize the construction of “a good life” which recognizes the possibilities of "spiritual incomprehensibilities.”
As such, I am trying to advocate for supporting the acquisition of literacies ensuring ethical, effective, & appropriate usage of vital resources for physical, emotional, intellectual, social, spiritual, & financial fulfilment. We should be explicitly implementing an integrative/holistic approach toward improving conditions for all constituencies in our immediate and surrounding environments both dynamic & static.
We can do this by striving for authenticity, safety, consistency, acceptance, comfort, trust, and impartiality in our exchanges in order to prevent “mixed messages” – i.e. when we say one thing with our words, but do something different with our conduct – from causing contradictions, “attribution errors,” and otherwise escalating into crises of “cognitive dissonance.” We can start by assuming an anthropological awareness (i.e. “cultural humility”) amidst a substantial economic & political upheaval against inequitable power structures (i.e. gender essentialism: subjugating the feminine). By providing access to the organic, analog, & digital resources that we need, want, and deserve for sustainably living, learning, working, loving, creating, leading, and growing together.
This will be our strategy for addressing media pollution, information disorder, techno-lust, and other unfortunate residuals from the information age that are disrupting our socio-cultural ecosystems. It helps us when considering the full spectrum of cross-cultural, multilingual, & transnational variables that invite conflict & grievances amongst internal and external community stakeholders. It requires demonstrating the acquisition of productive communicative competencies (when speaking and writing) for "encoding" messages as well as comprehension aspects (when listening and reading) for "decoding" messages that are sent verbally and nonverbally.
This is NAMP: Not Another Marketing Ploy! My goal is to facilitate a taskforce who will be advocating for consumer safeguards to prevent media pollution, information disorder, & “techno-lust” from further disrupting our social, cultural, political, & economic ecosystems.
Thank you for considering these ideas; and please feel free to forward my message to those whom you may deem to be appropriate recipients.
-Dina
https://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/NAMP:_Not_Another_Marketing_Ploy
linkedin.com/in/dina-hornreich-113a79283
medium.com/@dina-hornreich
413-315-0485
c/o FOH & CSO @29 Industrial Drive East, Northampton, MA 01060
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Advocating for better consumer safeguards and sustainable
economic reform in the age of surveillance capitalism for "wising up" from rationality to morality in this emerging "Conceptual
Age."
Stopping the epidemics of misinformation, disinformation, & malinformation (propaganda)
from disrupting our information, media, & technology (IMT) ecosystems by
facilitating the effective, appropriate, & ethical comprehension/production
of IMT artefacts on our journeys toward integrative recovery & holistic
wellbeing.
Facilitating the acquisition of lifelong literacies, instead of reinforcing the perception that "natural vulnerabilities" are "permanent deficiencies," as a community of learners struggling to fight the onslaught of unhealthy messages generated by practices which condone/promote the exploitation of typical human fallibilities reinforcing the greedy, violent, and misogynistic approaches of a plutocratic tyranny who resorts to criminalizing, pathologizing, and otherwise blaming the victims of their wanton ludicrousness.
Alerting
consumers to the impact of numerous illusions and other deceptive
efforts that turn our individual differences into manufactured
deviations (and other forms of "learned helplessness"); thereby
revealing systemic injustices that are perpetuated by ongoing
inequitable power dynamics (i.e. colonialism) and other accessibility
barriers to the basic resources that support our universal human needs,
wants, & desires.
Building a taskforce of nonviolent communicators who are:
- Promoting an informed, engaged, & wise global citizenry and participatory transnational Democracy. (cf: listography)
- Elevating “Conceptual Age” skills (design, story, symphony, empathy, play, & meaning) in order to remedy the shortcomings of residuals from the preceding "Information Age" and "Industrial Age."
- Preventing media pollution, information disorder, & “techno-lust” from further disrupting our social, cultural, political, & economic ecosystems.
- Championing mindful “meta-literacies” (i.e. becoming adept bullsh*t detectives) involving the creation, selection, organization, presentation, diffusion, consumption, & preservation stages for "processing" IMT artefactual innovations.
- Adopting the principles of "Data Feminism": Examining power; challenging power; elevating emotion & embodiment; rethinking binaries & hierarchies; embracing pluralism; considering context; and making labor visible.
- [TypicalGirls] HumanifestX September 2025 Update: You can take the teachers out of the classroom, but we're always in school., Dina Hornreich, 09/09/2025
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