On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Sandwichman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course, the implication of what you say is profound. Only the > unenlightened "want to teach people what they should want". Knowledge is > what people should want. Therefore all teaching is, by definition, > unenlightened. Since any learning corresponds with some teaching, then > learning, too, is, by definition, unenlightened. By a process of > elimination, ignorance is enlightment. But having just learned that > ignorance is enlightened we have managed to darken it by our so learning.
Well S-man, behind the (entirely unintentional) profundity, there was what I think is a serious question. 1) The masses have learned to want to consume (actively helped along by eager capitalists through advertising, indoctrination and so on.) 2) This desire to consume so well-learned by the masses has disastrous consequences for the environment and for society. 3) What to do? Help the masses to learn (teach?) to want something less destructive, e.g. leisure? Is it unenlightened to use the weapons of indoctrination and counter-advertising against their original purveyers? If so, what is to be done by the enlightened (beyond simple gestures of individual protest)? -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
