Current Affairs
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The 21st Century Digitized Panoptican
by Lawrence Burke Humanyze is a data analytic company. Its mission is to monitor employee’s work day through the use of digital technology. Designed at MIT, The Humanyze Badge Platform allows employers to monitor their employees every second of every… Continue reading
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Education, Power & Wealth
by Lawrence Burke The subsummation of 21st century education into an advanced capitalist framework reaches its Zenith in Jose Ferreira’s recent polemic on The Hollywoodization of Education. Ferreira is CEO of Knewton, a self-described ‘adaptive learning company’. It’s actually a… Continue reading
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World War 1, Historical Revisionism & the Distortion of the Horrors of War
by Lawrence Burke The 28th of July, 2014 marked the 100th anniversary of the start of World War 1. I was born 35 years after the end of WW1 and 8 years after the end of WW2, so both major… Continue reading
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Prisoner 46664: The Last Great Statesman
by Lawrence Burke The death of Nelson Mandela leaves a more obvious vacuum in the international and humane leadership of the world today-perhaps it’s safe to say given recent history in South Africa, since he stepped down as President of… Continue reading
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Teaching in the Shadows of Social Injustice
by Lawrence Burke Teachers in Brazil, protesting their poor working conditions and paltry wages for undertaking one of the most essential jobs in the world today-educating future generations-were brutally attacked by security forces as they protested for better pay and… Continue reading
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The Decline of the Open Society
by Lawrence Burke The ex-CIA employee, Edward Snowden who exposed the extent to which the security agencies of the United States of America and her allies intrude on the lives of their citizens raises the specter of the decline of… Continue reading
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The Uncomfortable Truth about Violence, Entertainment and Violent Crime in Society.
by Lawrence Burke Three weeks after the United States of America was overwhelmed with grief at the murderous rage of a 20 year old man who went on killing spree ending the lives of 26 people, including 20 children in… Continue reading
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Questions arising from the Process of Schooling and Societal Violence
by Lawrence Burke On Tuesday 2nd October 2006, a 32 year old man held hostage a group of young students between the ages of 6 and 13 at a small rural Amish school in Pennsylvania, and later executed 3 girls… Continue reading
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In Defense of Humor in an Age of Blame, Revenge and Scapegoating
by Lawrence Burke Fawlty Towers, the British sitcom, which aired in the United Kingdom and its former dominions between 1975-1979 provides an insight into the psyche of British Humor. Fawlty Towers is essentially class driven, culturally misogynistic and racist as… Continue reading
The LB Chronicles by Lawrence Burke, Ed.D 