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Stop making this a moral issue. Did 20th century behaviourism teach you nothing? The human stock is only as good as the stimulation it receives. The reason peo
by forensic 15y ago
Stop making this a moral issue. Did 20th century behaviourism teach you nothing? The human stock is only as good as the stimulation it receives.
The reason people have trouble learning is because they are victims of mass culture. When a child is raised on corporate propaganda from age 1 how do you expect him or her to be intellectual?
You phrase these things in moral terms and indicate that the failure lies with those in poverty. But we intellectuals discovered long ago that those in poverty behave in predictable, controllable ways.
Garbage in, garbage out. The public schools have become corporate propaganda systems and the Universities have lost all sense of public duty.
The poor can't educate themselves. They need an enlightened class to protect them (using government) from the powerful forces of propaganda.
You sit in your ivory tower and blame the victims, when you have no idea what it's like to be raised by a television and modern public schools bought and paid for by special interests.
Children are impressionable and stupid. Your classes have to compete for attention with the greatest propaganda machine the world has ever known: the U.S. corporate media.
- NY_Entrepreneur 15y agoIt's called 'pop culture'! Or it's "the great wasteland". Or it's the "message" in "the medium is the message". But heavily it's the old tried and true of the humanities culture, 'drama' as in 'formula fiction', especially as in the 1000 year old 'morality' plays. So, I'm reluctant to believe that more of the 'humanities' culture will have a solution. Or, with high irony, in main results, if not in all intentions, the 'humanities' are a great enemy of humans!