Carrol
shag wrote:
>
> you perceive people as being horrified that the great professors are being
> treated like clerks at safeway. that's not what anyone here means, i don't
> think. the problem is turning an education into commodity that exists only
> to be exchanged. i guess you can say that this is just part of the process
> of all that's solid melting into air, all that's holy is profaned.
>
> and that's true but while we shouldn't valorize the past and mourn for
> something lost that we never had, i can't see why we should celebrate it in
> that punishing, on your knees before the truth, prostrate yourself, bare
> and wimpering, before the truth of capitalist reality suckers -- because
> that goes in the other extreme which is equally intolerable.