In Reply to: So you really LIKE capitalism!! posted by mvwine on November 1, 2002 at 06:26:12:
>>The second is sheep like masses (who have no one to blame but themselves)<<Not when the mindset that allows this to happen is inculcated in the very young, as in our current public school system. Perhaps you'd be surprised to find how many Americans believe the school system is actually designed to educate and that it produces healthy, critically-minded citizens. Rather, it produces carefully "engineered" citizens who are ignorant of the contradictions in their own situations and easy to manipulate. This is close to what Orwell describes as the ability to hold two contradictory notions at the same time.
Also, the comparison to sheep doesn't really work. Sheep don't "blame."
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- Re: So you really LIKE capitalism!! - Jabberwock 11:54:18 11/01/02 (13)
- Why don't you tell us a better system.... - Mrs. Piggy 12:28:31 11/01/02 (4)
- A pig that teaches... - Jabberwock 16:51:18 11/01/02 (3)
- Access to material goods IS a measure of quality of life... - Mrs. Piggy 17:00:00 11/01/02 (2)
- Re: Access to material goods IS a measure of quality of life... - Jabberwock 17:04:36 11/01/02 (1)
- No one says it is.... - Mrs. Piggy 17:15:23 11/01/02 (0)
- I really have misjudged you! - mvwine 12:14:08 11/01/02 (7)
- Don't be too hard on the guy.... - Mrs. Piggy 12:40:06 11/01/02 (6)
- Even worse... - Jabberwock 15:48:12 11/01/02 (5)
- A professor wouldn't say - Mrs. Piggy 16:48:27 11/01/02 (4)
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