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Originally posted by PornoDoggy@Sep 17 2003, 07:42 PM
Yo, Buffy ... just what in the hell does the fact that [labert] went to public schools have to do with anything?
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I would be honest to god surprised if Buffy did not graduate from public school himself. He exhibits all the classical traits of a typical public school graduate.
I should follow that up with an explanation. The public school system is only designed to create mindless little automatons. It is nothing more than societies way of enculturating you into consumer society and preparing you to be another cog in the industrial machine. Public school does not, and I am not saying private school does, teach critical thinking skills nor does it introduce any alternative viewpoints. But again, that is not what it is there for. Its only job is to produce workers and consumers.
Back when the industrial revolution began sweeping across Europe and the United States, the factories needed a large workforce. Since 98% of the population was agrarian they found it increasingly difficult to keep these people working long steady hours. Your typical agrarian individual had no concept of working by the clock, or working to accumulate material wealth. They only knew how to work long enough in order to get what they needed to survive. Nothing more was needed. If you could get away with working 4 hours a day on a very small farm, why the hell would you work 14 hours a day? There was no large scale consumer society, if you needed anything else you simply bartered for it. I am getting off track. So this new class of factory workers found the idea of working in a factory 14 hours a day to be absurd. They only wanted to work long enough to get what they wanted and be done with it. Henry Ford had this same problem, Ill come back to this in a minute.
Slowly but surely this gave rise to a small consumer class that needed to purchase its goods from producers in order to survive.
This is where the idea of public school comes in. Child labor was a huge problem during this time. Not only were children forced to work in dangerous conditions, expanding populations in these new industrial centers created competition for work. Then comes the enemy of Buff, the lefties come in and fix this problem by creating child labor laws. More adults are available for work now, and children are not working 12 hour days in dismal conditions.
But what the fuck do we do with all these kids? Enter the school system.
Brilliant idea actually. We will take all these children, regiment them according to the clock, enculturate them how we see fit, and when we are done... bingo, instant working class. Barely educated (esp by todays standards), used to working by the clock, and minds pumped full of whatever the ruling class saw fit.
Its no different than getting an education here. You are shown what is right, what is wrong. Who is right, who is wrong. What happens if you break the rules of the ruling class. Why it is good to follow the herd.
Back to Henry Ford. So what does Henry do to keep these lazy hick bastards working? Instead of paying them a minimum wage, he pays them an astounding wage for the time. What does all this extra money do? What do you do with extra money? You spend it. Henry Ford created a class of consumer employees. The more you make, the more you buy. And one need only look to examples of people in this industry to see what money and material wealth create. Its just creates more need, more want. Commodity fetishism it is called, and most of you are stricken with it. You got the Brad Shaws, the Lensmen, the MikeAI, people just obsessed with gathering up material possessions. Why? Because it is their identity. They cannot exist without it. It fills a void. It makes them who they are. They sleep better at night knowing they have more than the next guy.
Shit, time for class. Until next time faggarios. I didnt bother to spell check, have a ball Buffy.
Last edited by [Labret] at Sep 18 2003, 07:08 AM