On Wed, Mar 26, 2014 at 7:59 PM, Michael Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Surely it is a much better way to spend society's resources than the > military, for-profit healthcare or just about any other government budget > item? > > Oh, I don't know. There's a lot to be said for > garbage collection, and the buoying of navigation > channels. Not to mention GPS. > > The comparands suggested in Raghu's question give the game > away, really. Imagine a poor guy in the dungeons of the > Inquisition, with Dominicans idly tearing out bits of his > flesh with red-hot pincers. The patient exhibits a certain > inclination to protest. The head Dominican tut-tuts and tells > him, "Just be glad we're not *Jesuits*." > Really? Going to college in the US today is analogous to getting tortured in the Inquisition? I don't understand this strain of anti-intellectualism on this list. Is complaining about how learning Greek is useless in modern society that much different from Tea Partiers going on about the evils of liberal arts education? Following the logic of your complaints against education, every modern institution is corrupted by capitalism, so Resistance is Futile. We might as well just throw up our hands, give up and wait for the Armageddon? Oh I know. We are not waiting for Armageddon. That is for stupid Christians. We are waiting for Class Consciousness! -raghu.
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