From the author of the Buddhist discovery novel, Myth Shattering, we now present Timothy Harada’s third volume of his Collected Writings From Soka University of America, “Questioning Orthodoxy.†This third volume is perhaps a mix of the first two volumes in that it questions both the political and philosophical views that are the anchors of Western “civilization.†As George Orwell wrote over a half century ago, “Orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness (1984).†Today thanks to our collective thoughtlessness, we all live in that world Orwell predicted in his novel, 1984, where “War is Peace; Freedom is Slavery; Ignorance is Strength.†The tragedy we all face today is perhaps even worse than Orwell could have predicted and it will only get worse if we don’t learn how to think for ourselves. The only hope that we are going to change the death strewn path we are all on is if we learn to rethink what we have been forced to think by our corporate media, our unelected officials and their many paid-for “think-tanks.†Though Timothy doesn’t claim to have any special ability to think outside the boob tube, he does offer us some hope that we all can think differently, even as painful as it may be to question our own conditioning.
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
“Times They Are a-Changingâ€.....................Page 1
For Both Women and Men
Contrasting US and Japanese.....................Page 10
Stereotypes of Each Other Before,
During and After World War II
The Least Unjust System.........................Page 37
I am a Chandala And Proud of It.................Page 41
The Europeanization of Islam in.................Page 46
Turkey or the Islamization
of Europe
The Unfair World of Odysseus....................Page 62
Huck’s Transformation...........................Page 67
Who am I?.......................................Page 73
The Fallacy of Objectivity......................Page 83
Comparing Clinton and...........................Page 88
Bush, Jr.’s Foreign Policies
Fogle’s Assessment of...........................Page 95
“Young Goodman Brownâ€
The Ignorance of Specialization.................Page 104
A More Enlightened Science......................Page 109
My Thoughts on Art and Activism.................Page 115
The Century of Women Has Now....................Page 130
Begun at Soka University of America
It’s a Damn Good Thing That.....................Page 133
Linus Pauling Didn’t Teach
At Soka University of America
Limits to Western Science.......................Page 137
Western and Eastern Science.....................Page 142
The Importance of Translation...................Page 147
The Arrogance of Western........................Page 152
Materialism
It’s All Been Done Before.......................Page 157
The Meaning of Art?.............................Page 161
Learning Humility...............................Page 166
Studying SGI-USA................................Page 172
A Celebration of Life...........................Page 177
For the Love of Reading.........................Page 180
A Time for Reflection Not Retaliation...........Page 186
A letter to the Commander and Thief
The Post Modern Effect..........................Page 190
An Overview of My “Modes of.....................Page 199
Inquiry†Readings In a Disjunctive
Modal Sort of Style?
Probing Beneath the Surface: A Deeper..........Page 203
Look at “To His Coy Mistress†and
“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrockâ€
The Aristotelian Critique of Sophocles..........Page 218
Cats and Golfing Make Flu Shot..................Page 226
Easily Swallowed Over Tea Bags
On Ice in the Late Afternoon
Reconstructing Sappho’s Fragments...............Page 231
The Complex Issues of the Civil War.............Page 245
Literary Introductions..........................Page 250
The Commodification of US Culture...............Page 255
My Proposal to the US State.....................Page 265
Department To Improve
Western Hemispheric Affairs
The Geology and Geography.......................Page 280
Of the Present-Day United States
Kyoto, the Land of Temples,.....................Page 289
Shrines and Beautiful Women
Islam and Minorities............................Page 306
In the Ottoman Empire
Nichiren Daishonin, Ehren Watada, Naomi Wolf, Naomi Klein, Dennis Kucinich, Berkant Coskun, Tayfun Gönül, Vedat Zencir, E.T. and many more.
Music that makes you think.
All of Michael Moore's movies: Sicko, Fahrenheit 911, Bowling for Columbine, Ed and Me. Other movies that make you think, like JFK, Malcolm X, Gandhi, Nostradamus, Stigmata, The Name of the Rose, Tuesdays With Morrie, etc. Movies that make you laugh, like The Labyrinth, Charley and the Chocolate Factory (the first, I've not seen the newest version), Alice and Wonderland (the 4 hour TV special version from the 80s).
Blow up your stupid TV, before it consumes your mind!
Let's Stop Fascism From It's Continued Rise in the US!
All of Daisaku Ikeda's books, especially the dialogues. Naomi Wolf's new book, "The End of America," Naomi Klein's new book, "The Shock Doctrine and the Rise of Disaster Capitalism," Jeremy Scahill's new book "Black Water, the Rise of the World's Most Powerful Missionary Arm," Confessions of An Economic Hit Man," "The Dead Sea Scroll's Deception," "Lies My Teacher Told Me," "Many Lives; Many Masters," "The Dancing Wu Li Masters," "The Seat of the Soul," "The Lost Years of Jesus," "Holy Blood; Holy Grail," Catcher in the Rye, Wuthering Heights, The Human Revolution, etc.
Ehren Watada, Naomi Wolf, Father Roy, Micheal Moore, Naomi Kline, Steven Biko, Noam Chomsky, Helen Caldicott, Shijo Kingo, Daisaku Ikeda, Nichiren Daishonin and many more!
Who planted the explosive devises? That's all we want to know.