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civics classes?
without also bringing back some level of encouragement for students to think for themselves, this class amounts to little more or less than political indoctrination.
which would seem to me a sign of the bushtimes--you can counter problems that might be raised by critique of irrational policies by working to create a totally servile public by using education as an explicitly political instrument.
this sets up even more people for this kind of discussion: introduce military personnel as fetish-objects to cut off debate about whether a particular state action is or is not defensable....because if you oppose the policy, you disrespect the folk who have put themselves in the position of having to carry it out (for whatever reason---this type of argument tends to reduce the motivations folk might have to enter to military to a one-dimensional matter).
follow this pattern to its logical conclusion and you can imagine people expressing everything about how the think of america in relation to the world as summed up in those stupid magnetic ribbons you can buy at 7-11. one-dimensional thinking for a one-dimensional regime enframing its one-dimensional conception of the world as a natural horizon. if you want to make servility a habit, get people early. and let no child be left behind.
on an unrelated note, i have never understood why it is necessary to play the national anthem at sporting events......
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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