Do you know how stamps are made? Watch this video and find out.
All letters and parcels along with their accompanying stamps are properly stamped before they leave the post office. Would you like to make your own stamper? Here’s a super easy tutorial.
What about getting this stamper down to work to create your own piece of art?
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Yesterday’s 170th historic anniversary of 3 September 1843 revolution, which forced the king Otto to grant Constitution to the Greek people, brings forward thoughts about the development of democracy in Greece and modern societies worldwide.
Noam Chomsky’s Media Control – The Spectacular Achievements of Propaganda unavoidably comes to mind and provides interesting citations for our higher level students to contemplate and debate on:
“Let me begin by counter-posing two different conceptions of democracy. One conception of democracy has it that a democratic society is one in which the public has the means to participate in some meaningful way in the management of their own affairs and the means of information are open and free….
An alternative conception of democracy is that the public must be barred from managing of their own affairs and the means of information must be kept narrowly and rigidly controlled. That may sound like an odd conception of democracy, but it’s important to understand that it is the prevailing conception….
…in a properly-functioning democracy there are classes of citizens. There is first of all the class of citizens who have to take some active role in running general affairs. That’s the specialized class. They are the people who analyze, execute, make decisions, and run things in the political, economic, and ideological systems. That’s a small percentage of the population… Those others, who are out of the small group, the big majority of the population, they are what Lippman called “the bewildered herd.”
…The bewildered herd is a problem. We’ve got to prevent their rage and trampling. We’ve got to distract them. They should be watching the Superbowl or sitcoms or violent movies. Every once in a while you call on them to chant meaningless slogans like “Support our troops.” You’ve got to keep them pretty scared, because unless they’re properly scared and frightened of all kinds of devils that are going to destroy them from outside or inside or somewhere, they may start to think, which is very dangerous, because they’re not competent to think. Therefore it’s important to distract them and marginalize them.”
