KTC> I'm delighted that Zim posted this, since it condemns many of the positions that I thought he supported. Zim must be a good man.
http://www.sott.net/articles/show/246983-Beyond-the-Politics-of-the-Big-Lie-The-Education-Deficit-and-the-New-Authoritarianism
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KillTheCat,
I'm not sure what you got out of it . . . .
But what I got was not only that the author of that piece thought we was 'uneducated' . . . but that he
blamed 'capitalism' for it.
Oh, we got far tooo many ignorant people in this country . . . folks who are utterly unable to accept
facts and reality . . .
But the pompous azz who penned it is another of the
symptoms of the 'dumbing down' of America.
(Unless you can explain otherwise . . . . . Try.)
This from the article:
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There is little distance between what I am calling an education deficit and the reigning market authoritarianism, with its claim to be both synonymous with democracy and unquestionable in its assumptions and policies. The education deficit, a hallmark achievement of neoliberal capitalism,
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'neoliberal capitalism' ??
Zim.
Mad Poet Strikes Again.