Meditations on China, Africa, Zen, and the environment. The time to change things is now.
Monday, September 18, 2006
Reading
I had to get this link down before losing it. It is almost beyond comment in the naivete. Everyone should not be bothered in thinking abstractly and thinking about more than the next Big Mac.
I like to think about food. It gives me great joy.
Sadly, IMO the neoliberal era has meant that universities must conform to the needs of business (read: 'private investment'). So, unless your 'Sartre - Being and Nothingness' is going to increase productivity, then there isn't going to be much funding to teach it!
And so, I am not surprised that we are all dumb cunts now. I didn't read further down than that.
---And what better way for capital to consolidate its hegemony then by removing the remnants of emancipatory ideology [for lack of better words at present].
sorry, excessive but i should clarify: the vocational shit domesticates us, makes us stupid, rather than making us smart. Hence why people can't read complex books.
When you get down to it, some people need vocational shit. So, I believe that it should exist, regardless of how it may seem to be classifying people into roles so as to keep my college-educated ass comfortable. But, by turning college into vocational/sacrifice your life to sell shit, it domesticates the entire population, yes. College shouldn't teach people how to fit into this society. It shouldn't teach people how to confront society. It should teach people how to think (if the high schools can't do it), how to confront/challenge themselves, and then change society, not make money. Some drinking and drug use mixed in are fine.
Ideas and abstract thought are what keep people away from stupid crimes becuase people can actually imagine the consequences before doing stupid shit. Maybe we should teach kids how to imagine a real life of crime, not what is shown in hip hop and mafia movies.
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I like to think about food. It gives me great joy.
Sadly, IMO the neoliberal era has meant that universities must conform to the needs of business (read: 'private investment'). So, unless your 'Sartre - Being and Nothingness' is going to increase productivity, then there isn't going to be much funding to teach it!
And so, I am not surprised that we are all dumb cunts now. I didn't read further down than that.
---And what better way for capital to consolidate its hegemony then by removing the remnants of emancipatory ideology [for lack of better words at present].
maybe 'radical teachings' would've been better - and less pretentious - to have said.
sorry, excessive but i should clarify: the vocational shit domesticates us, makes us stupid, rather than making us smart. Hence why people can't read complex books.
When you get down to it, some people need vocational shit. So, I believe that it should exist, regardless of how it may seem to be classifying people into roles so as to keep my college-educated ass comfortable. But, by turning college into vocational/sacrifice your life to sell shit, it domesticates the entire population, yes. College shouldn't teach people how to fit into this society. It shouldn't teach people how to confront society. It should teach people how to think (if the high schools can't do it), how to confront/challenge themselves, and then change society, not make money. Some drinking and drug use mixed in are fine.
Ideas and abstract thought are what keep people away from stupid crimes becuase people can actually imagine the consequences before doing stupid shit. Maybe we should teach kids how to imagine a real life of crime, not what is shown in hip hop and mafia movies.
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