"Lay back and let me show you another way..."
Here's the beginnings of the pitch for my class.
The class is designed for challenging discussion between myself and those who attend. My goals for it are to broaden and intensify political awareness, as well as my own awareness of the local political psyche. I also intend (as everyone does) to get my own views out into the wider community. Mostly because the rEVOLution only requires common sense, I believe this may in fact be effective, and harmless. (By that I mean, I'm not trying to start violent rebellion.)
The problems I expect to face in this, are that many of the people who are likely to come, would be very set in their beliefs [old], and the people under my direction would most likely disagree with me fervently [stupid]. Fortunately, I love arguing my point of view.
I am going to approach the class/group (whatever) from the side. Meaning I'm going to first learn as much has I can about the personalities and ideals of the people who come along, before really attempting to provide information or inject my own.
My first session will be about definitions in politics. What means what to who. (Liberal/ Conservative etc) the ultimate goal of the session will be to help people make better sense of phylosophical debates, and or be able to spot political labelling.
(I will post my session plans... while writing I've decided to call the class/group a session now.)
As a side project, I will be attempting to improve on the Nolan Chart (google it), making it a three dimensional representation of one's political beliefs, rather than just two dimensional.
The revolution is all about education. So like Maynard sings; lay back and let me show you another way.
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