John Taylor Gatto - Perfect Production or Perfect Control

The major changes in education were implemented and rushed through state legislators during the camouflage of the world wars. The rationality for this transformation relied heavily upon the theories of big names who convinced decision makers that the lower social classes were inferior, saying that they are biologically inferior (Darwin), that they are spiritually inferior (Calvin), that they are psychologically inferior (Spinoza), and that they are politically inferior (Fichte).

Overproduction was used as justification for dumbing down Americans, because a Perfect Producer was totally self-sufficient, producing ones own education, shelter, clothing, food, entertainment, medical care, etc. In this social structure, supply organized through centrally owned private-public partnerships, such as the Corporation, could not survive. So, in order to obtain control, self-sufficiency of the individual, or "Perfect Production", had to be disintermediated, and replaced by an interdependent social structure.

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@Classpower007 Michel Foucault's another one to read.

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people are missing out!

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@Envisionism - very disappointing, isn't it?