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Isn't that kinda the point? Parenting is a huge guessing game with no guarantees. It is hard to draw the regarding how much to respect authority.
by bitexploder 10y ago
Isn't that kinda the point? Parenting is a huge guessing game with no guarantees. It is hard to draw the regarding how much to respect authority.
- smallnamespace 10y agoMaybe the point is that authority is neither inherently good nor bad, and the best thing to teach is to have a nuanced response to it?
- tantivy 10y agoThe passage from Chomsky explicitly argues that institutions in the USA have been, over the last half century, restructured to indebt and disenfranchise young people while maximizing short-term material gains for the people in charge of those institutions. The point is that "authority" has sought to produce a populace that is not capable of mustering a nuanced response to authority.
- moxious 10y agoHow do we suppose that authority got so sophisticated as to know how to do this fancy indoctrination if they themselves are a product of it?
- tantivy 10y agoThey aren't. From the passage: "That was true as well in the United States itself when it was a much poorer country after World War II and huge numbers of students were able to enter college under the GI bill – a factor in uniquely high economic growth, even putting aside the significance in improving lives."
- AlexCoventry 10y agoThe over-arching principle of Chomsky's political work is that systems of authority must always be required to justify themselves, and should be abandoned if they can't.