[lbo-talk] Re: why won't they listen to us dept.?

[Michael Dawson -PSU]

Well, there's also the fact that it's probably BS to gripe about this
problem anyway.  My experience is that ordinary students love to gain access
to information and arguments that have been withheld from them.  Chomsky
makes people ecstatic.  People almost always ask why he isn't on TV all the
time.

Telling the truth is as important as activism.  Activism without faith in
the power of the truth would be a form of insanity.  No activist I've met
believes truth-telling is ineffective.  Carrol Cox certainly doesn't believe
this, despite his self-flattering attempts to elevate activism above ideas.

"The Truth Shall Make You Free"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Frank Scott" <frank at marin.cc.ca.us>
To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org>
Sent: Monday, February 16, 2004 2:33 PM
Subject: [lbo-talk] Re: why won't they listen to us dept.?


>
> -"... Perhaps
> it's because we have so much experience with
> "getting the
> facts out there" and seeing how easy it is for
> students to
> ignore or misinterpret any information that
> challenges their
> preexisting assumptions"
>
> only students? how does that differ from any
> human being's "preexisting assumptions"? is it
> only poor, overworked , suffering academics
> who have to deal wit this tendency among most
> of the human race?
>
> and when all-knowing faculty present these
> "facts", why shouldn't even semi-thinking
> students disregard them, given that , so often,
> eltitist types who teach , and condescend to
> their students deserve to be given short shrift?
>
> and let's not get to the relative nature of facts, as
> presented by people who have absolutely no
> basis for arrival at these facts, that concern any
> material experience beyond reading, or
> watching, or listening to someone elses'
> alleged experience, and then delivery of these
> "facts"...
>
> fs
>
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