The future is incompatible with human thinking. That’s not to say we cannot imagine “tomorrow” but that what we imagine will always be cobbled together out of “pastness.” Further, the very same thinking that is…
Posts tagged economics
Economics and Kindergarten
I would like to offer the following as a critical warm-up to the following “economics” article from the Times (from 2010) about the “value” of the Kindergarten experience. First, be clear, I think these early…
Indolence! Undercutting the Cult of Mammon
A recent report on Inequality in America from Stanford details the extent of the wealth disparities. Salon has a brief post on it (United States of Inequality) offering this example of the self-perpetuation of winners…
China On My Mind: Seeing Indiana
“Never think of a surface except as the extension of a volume…” Henry Moore (out of Rodin) quoted by Donal Hall China was forced upon me. Look, but don’t read beyond the excerpts below, unless…
Against Oligarchical Roundtables In Education (and really, everywhere else too)
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about the answers. Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow It’s that simple really. All we do now is ask the wrong questions and…
Debt Ceiling – Proclamations of Liars and Thieves
Updated below. Or, Welfare Music. That’s my take, really, regardless of the real issues involved; the debt ceiling showdown is just another ruse to try to force the citizens to accept cuts to the…