[lbo-talk] Pathologies of Empire

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Jun 28 07:00:57 PDT 2005


Dennis Redmond wrote:


>But those structures are deeply toxic. I didn't realize this until my
>latest quixotic adventure, in the public high schools. And realized, with
>a shock, just how many teachers and administrators were ex-soldiers,
>National Guard, etc. Half the kids in one middle school class had family
>members in the military. In a thousand ways, great and small, the system
>trains the kids to be centurions, not citizens.

Not centurions, really - they're officers. We're trained to be loyal to our commanders and scared of external threats. We're always afraid of something, whether it's Mexican immigrants, Arab terrorists, or Chinese oil companies.

Doug



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