Intelligentsia: Mr. Wass's Social Studies Blog

Check out the website http://www.storyofstuff.com/ .  Watch the video.  What do you think?  Is there truth in watch you were watching?  Is this overkill?  Should we be this fanatical?

From this point on for posts/comments to count your entry must take into account one or more of the following: the moral, ethical, current event (making a connection), or continuing an intellectual thought from a previous post.  We will go above and beyond the normal everyday fare of the classroom into a “society” of intellectual thought [...]

We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world.  And this has been based on the even flimsier assumption that we could know with any certainty what was good even for us.  We have fulfilled the danger of this by making our personal pride and greed [...]