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Reasonable individual responses (like restlessness) to repressive institutional conditions like disassociation from the environment, extreme boredom, and inability to find relevance in the assignment have become the basis for the identification of disease and the prescription of drugs. Moreover, __the medical pathologizing of students is interwoven with neoliberal ideology in education in which knowledge, learning, and intelligence are understood through the register of economic competition, social mobility, and opportunity.__
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
The short-term, flexible time of the new capitalism seems to preclude making a sustained narrative out of one’s labors, and so a career. Yet to fail to wrest some sense of continuity and purpose out of these conditions would be literally to fail ourselves.
The Corrosion of Character
Richard Sennett
Most of the core assumptions of modern economics originally trace back to theological arguments: for instance, Saint Augustine’s argument that we are cursed with infinite desires in a finite world and thus naturally in a situation of competition with one another—which reappears in secular form in the seventeenth century in Thomas Hobbes—has become the basis for the assumption that rational human action is largely a matter of “economizing,” the optimal allocation of scarce resources by rational actors in a competitive world.
Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber
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