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The Peacemaker [of the Iroquois Confederacy] laid forth a promise of a hopeful future, a future in which there would be no wars, a future in which human beings would gather together to use their minds to create peace. He raised the idea of rational thinking to the status of a political principle. He promoted clear thinking as the highest human potential, and he preached it in the spiritual language of his contemporaries.
John Mohawk, Origin of Iroquois Political Thought |
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ADVENTURES IN FREEDOM Reviewed by Richard Bozarth
When Kaz told me he was publishing Adventures in Freedom, I didn’t have a single doubt about enjoying it, so my enthusiasm to read it was there immediately. Kaz took over as editor of The American Rationalist in 1996, so I’ve been reading what he has published in the magazine for a very long time and have liked all of it because we’re philosophical siblings. It would have been quite astonishing for me not to like his book; hence I wasn’t surprised to like it as much as I do. Every person in the philosophical family of Freethinkers and Secular Humanists will like this book. Who will not like this book? The Secular Humanists manqué who, like Christopher Hitchens, believe W. Bush’s War on Terror is practicing Secular Humanism’s principles will not like this book. Religionists definitely will not like this book. Flag-waving jingoists who believe the United States possesses cultural supremacy and therefore has a right to global hegemony will not like this book. The members of the boards of directors and the senior officers of corporations will not like this book. Kaz is a Polish American who arrived in the U.S. in 1981. Before experiencing the real United States, he had believed all the PR bullshit about it being a Land of the Free. All those lies were quickly exposed, which is why Adventures often expresses the betrayal that all Freethinkers and Secular Humanists in the U.S. resent—sometimes sadly, sometimes bitterly, sometimes angrily, but also with the hope that there’s still time to change the road we’re on. His academic career as a college professor was distinguished for having taught the first two courses on Secular Humanism in the U.S. and being fired each time for being uppity enough to do it, by the same college! Adventures has essays about this “achievement.” Any reader who believes the U.S. is a Land of the Free should read this tale and honestly ask this: could such punitive suppression of information in a college have happened in an authentic Land of the Free? more |
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Kaz Dziamka, Adventures in Freedom
CONTENTS
FOREWORD: Reflections on Freedom and Wilderness, i
THE FORGOTTEN WISDOM OF NATIVE AMERICANS, 1
Iroquois Democracy: A Legacy of Rational Politics, 1 The Iroquois Way of Impeachment: Let the Mothers Do It, 4 On the Superiority of Apache Religion, 6 A Lesson from the Apaches, 11
RECIPES FOR A GOOD LIFE, 20
We Were Born to Run—Not to Fight, 20 Whatever Happened to Rogerian Argument?: Shut up and Listen to Your Enemy, 23 A Winter Solstice Gift for You, 25 Try Yoga, Try Science, 27 A Fulbright Adventure, 31 Chasing Loons … in a Subaru, 33 |
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The unhappy humanist ©Kaz and Josh |
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Still waiting for the final “new AR” issue. Then I will keep updating this site on my own. |