We Will Not Cave

Cameron Neylon, in a chapter on how research excellence is a neo-colonial agenda, states that the “concept of ‘excellence’ is an empty rhetorical construct with no common meaning and no value. In fact, it is deeply damaging to the production of research with relevance and importance to actual policy goals .”  I have identified nation, identity, truth, family, and God as “concepts or notions” that have been deconstructed or “decentered” by the Left. “Excellence” in education is here another concept that is being deconstructed and even more strongly affects the future of the West, East, North, or South.  When we come to our future we will notice that things are falling apart at the seams. This will be decried as the result of latent neo-colonial power, but it actually will demonstrate the lack of incentive and structure needed to prevent the erosion of education. Neylon goes on to undermine use of peer review that has been the staple of research, validity and reliability, for de...

  In  Time for Transformation: Public Policy Must Change to Achieve Health Equity for LGBT Older Adults on the NIH pubmed website (authors)  Fredikson-Goldsen and Espinoza contend that “While the ACA stands to improve the health of LGBT older adults dramatically, additional policy reforms are needed to better evaluate its effect on LGBT people, as well as policy interventions that require community engagement with LGBT people and their nonprofit advocates at the local and state levels”  This article is a harsh criticism of states that do not stand for “same-sex marriage, etc…” This shows the disparity in policy-making, surely.  On the other hand, it also shows progressives influence in so many sectors of our lives and how “they” can influence policy making by seemingly offering objective scientific evidence to promote an agenda.  Whether or not you think LGBTqi+ is plausible is not the matter here; rather it is just how flooded the areas of research have be...

 The progressives tore down truth, with the postmodern move.  The progressives tore down Christianity as the colonizer and terrible hegemony.  Now they are tearing down the “human” in favor of the ecological.  So what is left is an ecosystem, its homeostasis expected to be maintained. The foundations for the humanities are now focused on deconstructing humanity (in their parlance, the humxn).  The question can be: what is the appropriate homeostasis? What system, entity, or species should be allowed to gain or lose? Due to the nature of the Earth, there is a lot of change going on.  Who is to say what the balance is, for example, should sapiens be favored, as if we could make a great effort to control the changes within the ecosystem of the Earth. Tearing down truth amounts to Enlightening others with knowledge about what can stand firm in time and what’s DNA is the fittest.  The fittest is the thing that fits its environment best.  This is the ...

When it comes to wild research an example can follow with the work of Schell et al. This research is not for the birds, it is for equity among neighborhoods.  Findings (?) account for the loss of bird variety being in relationship or correlation with certain humxn populations.  Sapiens equality directly affects the birds. Schell et al. report that “Luxury effects extend beyond primary producers, with recent studies suggesting that colonization, species richness, and abundance of birds are related to neighborhood wealth” and  “Other studies in Phoenix, Arizona similarly found that bird diversity was greatest in parks and residential yards situated in high-income neighborhoods”  Somehow the environment in poorer neighborhood and urban areas are directly related to emissions and pollution therefore bird populations are caused to decline and variety of birds is diminished. Don’t let this bring a smile to your face. Could this research be representative of many cities’ po...

Schell et al. explain that in the article The ecological and evolutionary consequences of systemic racism in urban environments “We provide a transdisciplinary synthesis on how social in-equities – and specifically, systemic racism – serve as principle drivers of ecological and evolutionary processes by shaping landscape heterogeneity” This work is crucial to know about in light of the way public policy is written, even in the US Congress the connection between systemic racism and climate change are directly correlated.  This is not to dismiss racism as a real problem, but we will see the connection that Schell et al. and others perceive to be the case. A definition is required here “ Ecology is the study of the relationships between living organisms, including humans, and their physical environment ” is a definition given by the Ecological Society of America.  So the focus is broader and narrower than Climate Change. Schell reports that “urban biodiversity, and plant diversi...

Christopher J. Schell, Dyson, Fuentes, Des Roches, Harris, Miller, Wolfe-Erskine and Lambert, “We explicitly integrate ecology, evolution, and social processes to emphasize the relationships binding social inequities, specifically racism, and biological change in urbanized landscapes” The closer look at the connections between urban life and ecology is important to the development of discourse for the perpetuation of equity and inclusion. Schell et al. explain that, with a mass of research behind the ideas that connect race and ecology, “Urban ecosystems encompass complex feedbacks between human activity, built and planted infrastructure, and natural landscapes that drive unique biological processes” There is quite the argument here that should be taken seriously, because there is a great debate at the core of what it means to be human and live a sustainable life on earth, with implications about how we have, are, and plan to treat our environment.   One cannot slough it off lightl...

Feminists dislike the prominence and attention that the transgender has received; women’s rights etc… have been too hard for . . . . Transgenderism has been a distraction so that ecological humxnities could sneak up on us Critical ecological theory has come into fashion