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Education is Ignorance, by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from Class Warfare) - 0 views

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Education is Ignorance by Noam Chomsky (Excerpted from Class Warfare)

shared by thinkahol * on 27 Apr 11 - Cached
  • thinkahol * on 27 Apr 11
     
    I didn't do any research at all on Smith. I just read him. There's no research. Just read it. He's pre-capitalist, a figure of the Enlightenment. What we would call capitalism he despised. People read snippets of Adam Smith, the few phrases they teach in school. Everybody reads the first paragraph of The Wealth of Nations where he talks about how wonderful the division of labor is. But not many people get to the point hundreds of pages later, where he says that division of labor will destroy human beings and turn people into creatures as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human being to be. And therefore in any civilized society the government is going to have to take some measures to prevent division of labor from proceeding to its limits.
Daniel Beringer

Shepard Smith Unloads On Fox News, White House Over Shirley Sherrod Scandal - 0 views

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shared by Daniel Beringer on 22 Jul 10 - Cached
  • "We here at Studio B did not run the video and did not reference the story in any way for many reasons, among them: we didn't know who shot it, we didn't know when it was shot, we didn't know the context of the statement, and because of the history of the videos on the site where it was posted, in short we do not and did not trust the source."
    • Daniel Beringer
      Daniel Beringer on 22 Jul 10
       
      According to the video, edited video gets released, Sherrod "quits", full video gets released, Sherrod apologized at by the WH. How exactly is the WH at fault? It is the original creator of the video and those who blindly followed it's lead. If Sherrod had really been like the edited video portrays her as, than it would be correct to dismiss her. The president trusts that news groups check their sources. The WH should do a little better too, and quit being so afraid to take time in matters like this. Waiting a day would have saved much embarrassment for the WH, and even could have allowed them to clear her name themselves. Bravo Shep Smith, and learn from this, WH.
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