[lbo-talk] Re: Radical Left Critique Of Nation Article

[C. G. Estabrook]

"Instead of the comforting rationale that merit breeds success and the
successful have merit, a more rational approach would be to speculate that
in our society wealth and power tend to accrue to those who are ruthless,
cunning, avaricious, self-seeking, lacking in sympathy and compassion,
subservient to authority and willing to abandon principle for material
gain..." --Noam Chomsky

On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, joanna bujes wrote:


> Kelley writes:
> 
> "The parochial sense of entitlement and snobbery exacerbates the
> problem."
>  ...  I have enough money to send my daughter to a private school, but
> I am resisting it with all my strength because I don't want her to
> grow up learning those values. Fuck them and their asshole
> meritocracy.
> 
> Joanna
> 
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