Tom Lowe wrote:
>
> At 18:26 -0400 8/8/00, Brad McCormick, Ed.D. wrote:
>
> >Most people seem not to have heard of what I call:
> >"[Erving] Goffman's First Law":
> >
> > Wherever there is a system,
> > there is a way to "work" it.
> >
> >There is a faint glimmer of hope in Max Weber's "iron cage"
> >and in most other "institutions", "systems", etc.....
>
> The following essay of Dave Stratman is illuminating. Stratman's writing appears on
>http://www.newdemocracyworld.org, an interesting web site.
>
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> YOU'LL NEVER BE GOOD ENOUGH:
> SCHOOLING AND SOCIAL CONTROL
[snip]
> HEALTH: You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle of
>Scotch. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until your work has been inspected. You
>have 15 minutes.
[snip]
In the 1960s, a Soviet physician in an Antarctic research station
who could not be medevaced out took and passed this test.
It's possible (well -- he did have more proper medical
instruments and no time limit: The only people who operate with
razors are all the women in Egypt and other
mostly but not only Islamic countries who
rip their daughters' external genitalia out to
make them more fully human -- millions pass *this* test!).
"Never again!" (That is an exhortation,
not a declarative, alas.)
+\brad mccormick
--
Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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