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		<title>The Matrix Unmasked: The Matrix Movie is a Symbolic Masking of the Human Condition.</title>
		<link>http://emergent-culture.com/the-matrix-reloaded-again-and-now-de-metaphoralized-activism-revolution-egyp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Feb 2011 06:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohaan  Solare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Metaphoralize, a new term I&#8217;ve coined to better define an aspect of story telling whereby reality is described by a story teller or author in the universalized big picture language of imagery. The idea is to creatively convey large chunks of information via setting, image, symbols and story character actions. A picture truly is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Delusions The Deluders and the &#8220;Truth&#8221;:  How Culture Programs Your Mind</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Mar 2009 07:15:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohaan  Solare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why We Believe What We Do and Why We Should Be Concerned I venture to say that most of us take for granted the reasons for why we believe what we do and what we don&#8217;t.  After all it is a process we automatically and without forewarning enter into as soon as we became able [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Present Day Culture Would Spin the Sinking of the Titanic</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:11:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohaan  Solare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of my articles tend to be of a serious nature but that does not mean I am without a sense of humor. There are plenty of sources for those wanting to be amused so I am content to offer a site that serves as a sobering station. I have an intuitive sense that to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Amused and Abused into Oblivion: Western Culture Illustrated By Huxley And Orwell</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 00:37:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohaan  Solare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aldous Huxley and George Orwell offer contrasting views of the enslaving methodologies employed by the governing classes and of the cultural conditions most apt to bind us. &#160; In actuality both men were correct on every point. Both methodologies are employed in the domestication process. The last item about inflicting pain pertains to inflicting the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Platos Cave Revisited: The Cave Walls Of Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Jun 2009 06:52:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohaan  Solare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our Culture, Our Inheritance, Our Burden The Way In and a Way Out from the Nightmare of Western History In the &#8220;Allegory of the Cave&#8221; we get a depiction of the human cultural condition according to the Greek philosopher Plato, who lived approximately 2400 years ago. The image to your left is the scene he [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Emergent Culture as Regenerative Dynamic of Culture</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:08:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohaan  Solare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Emergent culture will not be defined by the brands we consume nor the socio-economic status we achieve, but by the values we uphold Raymond Williams, the cultural historian defined emergent culture as, &#8220;the result of processes where “new meanings and values, new practices, new relationships and kinds of relationships are continually being created.” Williams also [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WAR! A Ploy By the Rich to Become Richer</title>
		<link>http://emergent-culture.com/purpose-of-war-origins-economic-crisis-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 22:34:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohaan  Solare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Don&#8217;t forget what I discovered that over ninety percent of all national deficits from 1921 to 1939 were caused by payments for past, present, and future wars. &#8211;Franklin D. Roosevelt In 1961, the late President Dwight D. Eisenhower, former Supreme Military Commander of Allied Armed Forces during World War ll&#8211;coined the phrase&#8211;&#8220;Military Industrial Complex.&#8221; The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE ACHILLES HEEL of Society an The Kings of Exploitation</title>
		<link>http://emergent-culture.com/how-the-west-won-lost-achilles-heel-society-kings-of-exploitation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:56:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohaan  Solare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Underlying Social Condition Involved in the Enablement of Exploitation Acts of manipulation and deception exploit certain fundamental and universal social condition&#8217;s found existing in all societies. And then the burden of exploitation is compounded in some cultures when deliberate measures (culture specific practices) are devised to cement and insure the success of exploitive strategies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Deconstrcuting the Biblical &#8220;Fall of Man&#8221;: Insight Into The Source Of Our Misery&#8212;Ancient And Modern</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohaan  Solare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Most of us have heard of, if not read about the legendary Garden of Eden, the mythical paradise on earth said to have existed prior to the &#8220;Fall of Man&#8221;. The first &#8220;Book&#8221; of Semitic biblical mythology, Genesis, recounts the events which lead up to &#8220;the Fall&#8221;. But before I get into my interpretation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lobbying Pays. Banks made a 258,449% Return on their Investment</title>
		<link>http://emergent-culture.com/lobbying-pays-how-would-you-like-to-make-a-258449-return-on-your-investment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2009 18:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rohaan  Solare</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beneficiaries of the $700 billion bailout package in the finance and automotive industries have spent a total of $114.2 million on lobbying in the past year and contributions toward the 2008 election, the nonpartisan Center for Responsive Politics has found. ...  During the bill-writing process, members of Congress were able to specify to some extent where the money should go, and they have lobbied regulators to urge them to inject funds into specific banks and financial institutions, including those in lawmakers' own districts.&#160;&#160;  "Taxpayers hope their money is being allocated entirely on the merits, but with Congress controlling how much money the Treasury gets to hand out, it will be impossible to completely exclude politics from this process," Krumholz said.  

...This includes  General Motors , which spent $15 million between campaign contributions and lobbying expenditures and got $10.4 billion (more than all other companies),  Bank of America  (and the investment company it bought last year,  Merrill Lynch ), which spent $14.5 million to play politics and received  $45 billion  from the bailout bill; and  American International Group  (AIG), which spent $10.6 million and was paid out $40 billion. ...  The  finance, insurance and real estate sector , including all companies and trade groups (not just those that qualified for TARP funds), spent $453.5 million on lobbying in 2008, an 8.7 percent increase from the year before. ]]></description>
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