[lbo-talk] asymmetry

joanna 123hop at comcast.net
Tue Oct 30 09:11:57 PDT 2007


Doug Henwood wrote:


>It's interesting that the criticisms of Harvard students were taken
>up enthusiastically, but that criticisms of less elite kids are
>dismissed. If you think the society is polarizing and pervasively
>anti-intellectual, wouldn't that show up in classrooms (besides those
>in Cambridge, that is)? More broadly, if you don't think that being
>poor or working class is at all damaging to mind and character, why
>be anti-capitalist?
>
The enthusiasm has two causes:

1. The way in which all parents/kids are beat over the head to get into the elite schools and the effect that has on their intellectual goals and on their actual benighted lives.

2. The fact that the Harvard stupids are causing far more damage than the inner city stupids, given that they can start hedge funds, deploy divisions, and push nuclear buttons.

Joanna



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