Required Reading

• Harry G. Frankfurt - On Bullshit


• Plato (via Allen Bloom) - The Republic


• Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves to Death


• Yevgeny Zamyatin - We


• Alduous Huxley - Brave New World


• George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four


• Allen Bloom - The Closing of the American Mind


• Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

Manifesto

This is the world in which we live:

• American youth think the press has too much constitutional freedom.


• There is one state-run video camera for every fourteen Britons.


• An inhabited island in a sovereign state has disappeared due to environmental destruction.


• They love Big Brother. And they're raising the next generation.

A manifesto is:

a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.

My intentions: to save the world from itself. My opinion: the vacuum of critical thought in humanity has been replaced with self-destruction. My objective: to make humanity realize that it is constantly lying to itself. My motive: love. Come with me; we'll make a finer world.