Over the last two decades, Marxist ideologies have gradually seeped into the foundations of the nation's educational landscape, planting seeds of division and discord in America's soil through its ultimate training ground: the K to college public education system. In part one of this interview with culture-shaper Kevin McGary, we discuss what he calls the current fruit of Marxism, a movement that is now sweeping unfettered across the nation's pulpits and classrooms. What is the root? What is the goal? What can pastors, parents, professors, and university presidents do to minimize the damage? Join us for this week's show to learn how you can be a restorer of hope, unity, and biblical literacy in your realm of influence. 

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Mass media consumption has a predictable, calculable impact on a significant portion of the population. Knowing its potential pitfalls should propel us to small changes (or perhaps sweeping ones) in our mass media consumption. In this final episode of the Media Literacy season, Dr. Dunne reminds us of the individual and collective impact of media on our sense of self, our identity formation, giving us the clarity we need to live free from the manipulation of a culture that is constantly cocooned by media. Discover some practical tools for those in your realm of influence as you learn the secrets of monitoring media intake and filtering false content. Cultures do not improve with inertia. It takes the sustained and collective efforts of courageous men and women to direct the course of history. May we all have the boldness we need to step out and speak up for the sake of the next generation. Our identities, and theirs, may depend on it. 

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Who are you? How did you become the person you are today? In a mass-media centric world, this is an increasingly vital question. We are not only a biological bundle of genetically-inherited traits; we are also the product of our surroundings. We become like the company we choose to keep. Whether it’s a physical friend or a virtual one, our beliefs and our behaviors are fashioned by the voices to whom we give the power of influence. In this episode, Dr. Dunne analyzes the modern-day Ahithophels, a generation of people whose lack of emotion regulation and positive relational influence has led them to a pathway of despair, comparison, hopelessness, fear. Discover the steps we can take in a media-central culture to remain rooted, grounded, and anchored in Christ. The identity of a generation, and a future nation, is at stake. 

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 If you’ve ever been trapped in a paradigm, emerged from it, and then looked back in retrospect at the folly of deception, you have probably experienced a sense of amazement that you could have been so incredibly misled, so convincingly deceived by something so unreal. Many people today live in similarly problematic paradigms, caught up in a world that is more of an invasive  illusion than a true representation of reality. There are imaginary definitions and pressures and imaginary milestones and deadlines and imaginary audiences and expectations.  It’s a world of illusion and delusion, one that mass media defines and dictates: a handful of owners parroting the same narratives,  applauding the same mediocrity, prescribing the same cures, consuming the same fare. Like our food intake, a media diet should be managed through portion control and nutrient density. Too much “dangerous nonsense” will skew the behavioral scale. To be effective, media use needs to be tempered, purposeful, and contemplative in nature, for its consumption is capable of directing the outcome of our lives: What we meditate on, we believe, and what we believe, we become. Join Dr. Lisa Dunne as she provides pathways for breaking free of mass media's problematic paradigms. 

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The benefits of connection are well known. From emotional to social to spiritual to physiological health, connection with other people influences our health at the macro and micro levels. However, it seems that there is a concerted effort today to isolate people from one another. After months of quarantine, California's governor even declared that families couldn't gather for Thanksgiving inside their homes, and if they decided to join together in the cathartic act of singing, they should wear a mask and sing softly. But this is not the only arena where isolation is becoming the norm. The foundations our children form in childhood and their teen years will influence the way they act and interact, the way they work and play, the way they think and speak and vote. The influences we surround ourselves with will foster the beliefs and behaviors that determine the ultimate outcome of our lives. 

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In the classic children's story The Emperor's New Clothes, two swindlers trick an entire village into pretending they don't see reality. Fearful of looking foolish before their fellow villagers, the men and women go along with the elaborate hoax, playing on the vanity of the emperor and their own pride. Instead of blowing the whistle, the villagers remain stuck in groupthink, creating a storyline that has been translated into 100 languages. Unlike the villagers, many of us do understand that we are called to be truth-tellers, that we are commissioned to be culture-shapers, that we are compelled to break toff the chains of deception in this generation. As historian Peter Burke says, "Change is often the result of conflict." Join Dr. Lisa Dunne as we learn how to break free off the fear of man so we can rise up, speak up, and deliver the truth that will set people free. 

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The wisest man in history, King Solomon, once said that humans become like the company we keep.  Put another way, "We are the sum total of the five people we spend most of our time with."  Now, parents are defensively aware of any stranger who might try to befriend their son or daughter, but what if the company kids keep is virtual, online, invisible to the eye? Does it still have power? Most definitely. In fact, media's ubiquitous presence is altering our behaviors, changing our families, and radically transforming our culture. As former MIT dean Lester Thurow said, "Values are not, and will not be, inculcated by the family, the church, or other social institutions in either the present or the future. They are and will be, inculcated by the visual and electronic media."  What can we do to combat this full-scale inculcation? Join Dr. Lisa Dunne as we learn how and when to pull the plug, to press the off button, and to find ways to turn down the volume on mainstream media's instant influencer status. 

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Are we influenced by the company we keep? Do we absorb ideologies, lifestyles, beliefs, and behaviors through the process of repeated exposure to specific constructs? Join me for this week’s podcast as we unpack classical conditioning, conspicuous consumption, and the “coddling of the American mind.” In their insightful book by the same title, Lukianoff and Haidt assess the collective decline of civic discourse that has resulted in absolute mayhem in colleges around the nation. We’ve lost the collective ability to be sharpened or challenged by a thought that differs from our own, to agree to disagree. Instead, we make provisions for “safe space” bubbles that perpetuate the “childified adult” formula. But humans do not become mature, thoughtful, respectful, engaged, critically-thinking citizens by lying in a fetal position with our fingers in our ears. Baby-proofing the culture has led only to the rise of immaturity, of offense, of ideo-ophobia. How did we get here? And how do we get free? Join me for on Spotify or iTunes for this week’s Communication Architect podcast as we track the deleterious cultural implications of what Postman once called “the din of dangerous nonsense.” #bethechange #standup #speakup #thinkcritically #liberty #mindsetmatters #classicalconditioning #nosheeple

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In part two of this two-part series, Dr. Dunne explains the foundations of entertainment-education and how music and other forms of media have shaped belief and behavior over the last seven decades. Through a targeted approach toward certain demographics and a highly specialized and well-researched agenda, lobbyists utilize mainstream media to attempt to change thoughts, actions, lifestyles, individuals, families, nations. How can you ensure that this subtle and not-so-subtle socialization doesn't bear a negative impact on you or your family? Join Dr. Lisa Dunne to learn the secrets of staying media savvy in the realm of persuasion, socialization, and indoctrination. 

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In part one of this two-part series, Dr. Dunne explains the foundations of entertainment-education and how music and other forms of media have shaped belief and behavior over the last seven decades. Through a targeted approach toward certain demographics and a highly specialized and well-researched agenda, lobbyists utilize mainstream media to attempt to change thoughts, actions, lifestyles, individuals, families, nations. How can you ensure that this subtle and not-so-subtle socialization doesn't bear a negative impact on you or your family? Join Dr. Lisa Dunne to learn the secrets of staying media savvy in the realm of persuasion, socialization, and indoctrination. 

K to 12 Rescue Mission: https://www.academicrescuemission.com

Christian Community College: https://www.veritascc.us

CVCU degree programs: https://www.cvcu.us

Book Dr. Lisa to speak: https://www.DrLisaDunne.com

@DrLisaDunne