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Beware: All too often, We say What we hear others say. We think What we’re told that we think. We see What we’re permitted to see. Worse! We see what we’re told that we see. Repetition and pride are the keys to this. To hear and to see Even an obvious lie Again And again and again May be to say it, Almost by reflex Then to defend it Because we’ve said it And at last to embrace it Because we’ve defended it And because we cannot admit That we’ve embraced and defended An obvious lie. Thus, without thought, Without intent, We make Mere echoes Of ourselves— And we say What we hear others say.
Parable of the Talents
Octavia E. Butler
Managerialism has become the pretext for creating a new covert form of feudalism, where wealth and position are allocated not on economic but political grounds—or rather, where every day it’s more difficult to tell the difference between what can be considered “economic” and what is “political.”
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
curriculum itself is imbued with the social locations of its authors, designers, or sponsors (e.g., major corporations), and as such curriculum creates potentialities for understanding the world more clearly or in more obscurity relative to such locations.
A Marxist Education
Wayne Au
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