Scissorfight - Mantrapping for Sport and Profit

Scissorfight
Mantrapping for Sport and Profit
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" If you believe nothing can be done for the dumb except kindness, because it’s biology (the bell-curve model); if you believe capitalist oppressors have ruined the dumb because they are bad people (the neo-Marxist model); if you believe dumbness reflects depraved moral fiber (the Calvinist model); or that it’s nature’s way of disqualifying boobies from the reproduction sweepstakes (the Darwinian model); or nature’s way of providing someone to clean your toilet (the pragmatic elitist model); or that it’s evidence of bad karma (the Buddhist model); if you believe any of the various explanations given for the position of the dumb in the social order we have, then you will be forced to concur that a vast bureaucracy is indeed necessary to address the dumb. Otherwise they would murder us in our beds.

" The shocking possibility that dumb people don’t exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the careers devoted to tending to them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my proposition: Mass dumbness first had to be imagined; it isn’t real."

- John Taylor Gatto, The Underground History of American Education


Yeah, in place of a regular review, I really want you guys to check out author and former NYC teacher John Taylor Gatto's book The Underground History of American Education. You can read it online for free. Here. Please read this. Also, Scisorfight kicks ass.







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