[lbo-talk] School Debate: Central Focus

[Eric Beck]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 4:02 PM, James Heartfield
<Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
> Dennis Claxton writes: ‘Just as a machine is seen as an alien thing by the worker, and the normal and necessary activity of labor is converted into a horror, so too is much of schooling. Everything that might be good is turned into an evil. But surely machines and labor and reading and writing are not inherently evil. Surely a good argument can be made that all are fundamental.’
>
> Which is a good analogy, and well put, I think.

Sure it is. But it's also a tactical diversion from what's being
discussed, a reduction and a not taking seriously what the "antis" (to
deliberately overstate it) are arguing. This turns it into a
metaphyscial question, which it seems to me the "antis" have been
avoiding.