Re: {PBJFlorida} Did you read Chris Hedges today?

Hi Penny, could you send the link? I'm very interested to read a Chris Hedges article that you don't endorse! 

Happy elections day to all. I am sitting with a pit in my stomach and fingers crossed, my absentee Florida ballot safely in the mail.

On Mon, Nov 5, 2012 at 10:49 PM, jim belcher <jimbelcher350@me.com> wrote:

Hedges speaks his truth. I believe he is trying to wake us up. 

What he says about education rings true for me. "The role of education, the elites believe, is to train us vocationally for our allotted positions and assure proper deference to the wealthy. Disciplines that prod us to think are—and the sneering elites are not wrong about this—"political," "leftist," "liberal" or "subversive." And schools and universities across the country are effectively stomping out these disciplines. The elites know, as Canetti wrote, that once we stop thinking we become a herd. We react to every new stimulus as if we were rats crammed into a cage. When the elites push the button, we jump."

Most educators around me have lost all critical perspective. The have given in the the bidding of the elite. The state rules education now.  We've all but given up. 

And we keep watching the ugly drama unfold silently from the grandstands. Where's the indignation?

On Nov 5, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Penny Villegas <pennyvillegas31@gmail.com> wrote:

I have admired CH many times--his honesty, his insight, his articulate response to injustice, but today's Truthdig was too much. CH was brutal and I'm not sure he was correct/accurate. That coupled with the Fish drawing made me feel sick, both for the possible truth and the depths these two intelligent men have sunk to.

 

Penny

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