This excellent analysis is timely now that the revolution is beginning.
When I stood against the gentrification of West Philly and privatization
of Clark Park over a decade ago, I started realizing that the values of
the American people could no longer sustain a republic or hope for a
just society. The horrifying march to war in Afghanistan and Iraq
showed me that the ignorant cruelty and consumer religion of Friends of
Clark Park/UCD/Spruce Hill Civic Ass. were not simply a local aberration.
If the revolution succeeds after our blood is spilled, it's extremely
important that the history and forces that successfully destroyed the
hope of the New Deal and Great Society are examined by the children of
the brave young people on the streets today.
Our brave revolutionaries correctly understand that there is no hope in
the corporate controlled institutions that once allowed hope for a just
society and future. If our grandchildren survive and rebuild America
and a sustainable planet, they MUST study and understand how American
society was destroyed! This book looks like a good start.
http://www.truth-out.org/beyond-education-illiteracy-vulgarity-and-culture-cruelty/1317131147
"Central to "Education and the Crisis of Public Values" is the belief
that no change will come unless education both within and outside of
formal schooling is viewed as central to any viable notion of politics.
If real reform is going to happen, it has to put in place a viable,
critical, formative culture that supports notions of engaged
citizenship, civic courage, public values, dissent, democratic modes of
governing and a genuine belief in freedom, equality and justice. Ideas
matter as do the human beings and institutions that make them count and
that includes those intellectuals both in and out of schools who bear
the responsibility of providing the conditions for Americans of all ages
to be able to think critically so they can act imaginatively - so they
can embrace a vision of the good life as a just life, one that extends
the values, practices and vision of democracy to everyone."
http://www.truth-out.org/beyond-education-illiteracy-vulgarity-and-culture-cruelty/1317131147
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