If you're not scared of the 21st Century - you're not paying attention!
“The Late Mark Twain on Surviving the 21st Century” is produced for Middle and High School Social Science Classes by award winning playwright, veteran US Civics Teacher and Historian Paul D Rosa, born in Castro Valley, California in 1961.
This no-cost educational mini-series, complete with free transcripts, debate guides, and study guides is designed to shake things up and get your students thinking, talking, and debating about just where and what the “lunatic top 1% or Toppies” (as Twain calls them) are steering the people of the earth in this next century?
As the top 1% desire utopian bliss for themselves, what is instore for the bottom feeding rest of us? What is really distracting 99% of us from fixing the mess the top 1% are peddling?
Is the Late Mark Twain right? Is he wrong? Or, is he just one crazy-old-dead-genius? Let’s let your students debate and decide? As they do, we promise you one heck of a ride at yathink.org!
"Preamble"
7 min 46 sec
Series creator and producer Paul Davis explains how honest news died in 1988 when then US President Ronald Reagan vetoed the extension of the "Fairness Doctrine" established in 1949. "1988 was the birth of Fake News, the death of honest news reporting, and the year the "big brother" horrors of George Orwell's book 1984 starting becoming our sad reality." "Surviving the 21st Century" is all about this and more. 07/25/2020
Episode 1 - "Three of Twelve!"
Paul Davis as the late Mark Twain offers suggestions on how the "bottom 99%" in the United States might take back control from the "top 1%":
1) Starting your own Video News Website.
2) Replace Common Core in your schools.
3) Stop sending State School Money to the Feds.
07/25/20
32 min 40 sec
Episode 2 - "Four through Six"
Paul Davis as the late Mark Twain offers suggestions on how the "bottom 99%" in the United States might take back control from the "top 1%":
4) Earth will go on fine without humans.
5) No new nukes are good nukes.
6) Get Real with Real Farms & Real Food.
08/07/20
18 min 00 sec
Episode 3 - "Seven through Nine"
Paul Davis as the late Mark Twain offers suggestions on how the "bottom 99%" in the United States might take back control from the "top 1%":
7) When the people lead the leaders will follow.
8) You are all actually the same color.
9) Start a career in Animal Husbandry or Meat Cloning.
08/07/20
12 min 37 sec
Episode 4 - "Ten through Twelve"
Paul Davis as the late Mark Twain offers suggestions on how the "bottom 99%" in the United States might take back control from the "top 1%":
10) Just Stop! Stop creating so many humans for a while.
11) Put healthcare and people before profits.
12) Tweet carefully, tweet kindly or don't tweet at all.
08/07/20
22 min 21 sec
