beyond generalities
About Gove?
I managed to get to the top of page 2 of the web version before a red mist descended.
Education policy is a complete mess at the moment, with schools and colleges unable to make meaningful plans beyond the next 12 months, funding's fcuked, Toby Young, Jobs getting cut, social mobility getting hit (again), schools having to make decisions to chase money, which the gvt can then use for political gain, private schools being bailed out by the state, Toby Young, consultations headed by lunatics, Toby Young.
LOL
Yeah, was thinking of Zerzan and the Unabomber really - plus an anonymous book I picked up at Dan's the other day called Bolo Bolo or something."the unabomber was largely motivated by anti-civ views (primmie theorist high priest john zerzan visited him in prison a la sartre + the RAF)"
Not sure what you're saying here to be honest. I wasn't talking about my views at all so not sure how this relates."2nd, you're echoing a general assumption that the goal is to "give people better life" (whatever that means) which aside from being typically nebulous is, again, impossible on any real scale. the argument isn't that h+g gives a higher living standard (there is "original affluence" but it's debated among anthropologists), it's about sustainability + skepticism that progress will offer a way out from under. which isn't, NB, an argument for an equally impossible widespread return to h+g. some people do pursue that lifestyle to varying degrees in their own lives but that's on a personal/subcultural level. that entire scene is largely withdrawn from mainstream society anyway.
look, from your posts over the years i'm pretty sure you're a liberal. you talk reform. I'm telling you there's no such thing, not in any meaningful sense. we're not talking about the same thing. we don't even see the same planet. which is fine. no shots, that's just the reality."
Not sure what you're saying here to be honest. I wasn't talking about my views at all so not sure how this relates.
But I certainly see no reform as possible. I think the world is fucked - like I said in the environment thread - I'm just glad that I was one of the lucky ones born in a relatively prosperous country at a time that I believe is slightly easier to live in than those prior to it and much easier than those to follow. What we do now is mainly move deckchairs around on the Titanic to make the best of what remains - maybe that is liberalism.
^1st, the current system ensures a miserable (at least socioeconomic) life for the majority of humans. it's inherently a pyramid with the materially good lives of the few subsidized by the severely ill-compensated labor of the many. e.g. it is impossible to raise the living standards of any significant number of people without its collapse, w/o even going into the near certainty that the earth's carrying capacity couldn't support 7 billion people living at a modern middle class level.