> >Carrol Cox wrote:
> > >
> > > So if you really want to get rid of jargon, you are going
> > > to have to discover a way to give a 3-week equivalent
> > > of a Yale education to people who barely got through
> > > high school.
>
> Missed this the first time around. I don't agree. One of the benefits
> of a Yale education, at least in my experience, is the exposure to
> how the bourgeoisie thinks and acts. I can look, act, and talk like
> them even though I find them largely repellent; this is a useful <...>
> skill for both going undercover at their conferences and knowing how
> to address them on the rare occasions when they invite me. But also
> an advantage of a good formal education is, or should be, the
> capacity to take complex ideas and talk about them in relatively
> simple language. You don't need 20 years of schooling to understand
what he said.
yale did seem like a weird example, since it's notorious for being a bastion of some of the least comprehensible writers working in american academia in the past thirty years.
> the basics of Marxian class analysis; chances are you've experienced
> them every day of your life, but never heard them analyzed as such.
i'd settle for something much, much simpler: people realizing that the disembodied and polarized 'issues' the 'media' present don't match the world they live in.
as a side observation, this is one thing the net--whatever the hell it is--is good for. it's got all kinds of pitfalls, but it's striking a major blow against the cartelization of 'public discourse': captured networks, localized media markets, broad- cast models, technical barriers to comparing representations.
cheers, t