[lit-ideas] Re: education
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 22:18:28 +0900
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 9:36 PM, Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> *From:* John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Monday, November 7, 2011 12:34 AM
> *Subject:* [lit-ideas] Re: education
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> John: Whether the battle is winnable in a world where
> market-fundamentalist economics are grounded in a neo-Calvinist view of
> humanity (a few blessed, mostly damned) is, I fear, open to question.
> Whether it is winnable in a world where, ever since the invention of
> writing, scribe and ruler have worked hand in hand to exploit the rest,
> whatever the ideology said to govern economic affairs, is very much open to
> question.
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> Andy: John, that's brilliant.
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As much as I would like to claim credit, I owe the observation to my wife,
who got the basic idea from reading Max Weber's *The Protestant Ethic and
the Spirit of Capitalism *while doing freshman humanities at Reed College.
John
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