Obama's Community Volunteerism

Text-only presentation of the obscure philosophy behind President Obama's call to Community Volunteerism. The author has limited resources for adding music or uncopyrighted photos and would be honored to add your original music and photos depicting communitarian college programs nationwide (look up How Many Delawares?) Ends with a commercial for the ACL book: 2020: Our Common Destiny.

Category:

Nonprofits & Activism

Tags:

• Communitarianism
• community volunteerism
• homeland security
• amitai etzioni
• From Empire to Community
• Volunteer America
• Americorps
• change agents

[toounfazed]

At first I thought your videos might be interesting and contain some useful knowledge. Instead I find them teetering precariously on the thin edge of neo-conservative paranoia. Be careful, it is razor sharp and designed to woo you into complacency because you can't see it. When in our history have we ever not worked for the common good of a strong nation? It was somewhere between 2001 and 2009, during years of the Bush Doctrine. Please do please yourself as long as you live. I do not care.

[Alaskatentlady]

@toounfazed I'm sorry, what nation's history are you referring to? The Soviet Union? Red China?Israel? Unlike you, I wasn't raised in a communitarian nation, I will choose when and how I serve my country. Bush II, btw, was the first open communitarian president. Bush I created the 1000 Points of Light and Bush II carried on the torch. .Labeling me in dialectical terms shows your ignorance of communitarianism. This was a 101 class. You flunked.

[toounfazed]

@Alaskatentlady Your confusion lies in connecting the Bush regimes' neo-conservative "communitarianism", a dubious philosophical exercise with it's sole objective a criticism of liberal political concerns, to a Democratic president currently in office. One of these things is just not like the other. The "communitarianism" forces find it easy to confuse liberal arts coeds like yourself who forever pursue 101 classes in philosophy but never make it to the graduate level courses.

[Alaskatentlady]

@toounfazed We can throw insults back and forth forever and it won't change the facts. The communitarians put Obama in the WH. Etzioni brags about it.  The Rothschild funded DLC called him their "Third Way Wonder Boy" in 2004, when they invented him. Both Clinton's are communitarians too, as is Tony Blair. Interesting that you say the "communitarianism" forces look for ways to confuse students... that is their MO, for sure.

[toounfazed]

@Alaskatentlady Have you taken umbrage to something I've said? You said W. Bush was the first "c" president, in your view, yet you said the "c" forces put Obama in office. One of these things is not like the other. Obama is the complete opposite of a "communitarian" by your own definition, yet you persist in labeling him as such. You've lost all credibility in this horse race. The fact that "communitariansim" is a 101 philosophy class is enough to discredit it as worthy of examination.

[Alaskatentlady]

@toounfazed Here's what the "father" of communitarianism wrote in Jan 2010:"The time for muscular communitarianism has come. In his second year, President Obama best reveal that his communitarianism is not powerless, but indeed has muscles of its own, although these have so far been rarely exercised." Btw, my original anticommunitarian thesis is recommended reading in graduate level courses on Quality of Life at Vassar, My Youtube videos are for people who haven't been Tavistocked yet.

[DoucheyBaggins]

@Alaskatentlady ditto to you lady

[Alaskatentlady]

@DoucheyBaggins Genuine volunteerism has nothing to do with the people who brag about how much they do or how much they enjoy it. Authentic helpers don't feel the need to advertise their special "goodness".. they're not looking for a pat on the back or admiration. My volunteerism is evident in the body of work I've donated to millions of people worldwide. Yours is only evident in your bragging about it. You couldn't keep up with the level of work I'm capable of producing. You're fired.

[Alaskatentlady]

@DoucheyBaggins You know absolutely ZERO about me, but like all the programmed proponents of the fake communitarian ideology, you just make up whatever you need to validate your untenable position.