While there will surely be more snow falling in Newfoundland this Spring, let's try to get some of the chill out of our bones with some warming words from Noam Chomsky as he endorses the 2012 leg of the Occupy Movement.
"They're counting on our silence and apathy, and we should not grant them that lethal gift...
"...We have the chance to take power back and rescue the country and the planet from a grim fate."
In his poem "The Wasteland," T.S. Eliot said that April was the cruellest month. If the Spring thaw and dead and rotting plants has got you down, come on down to Harbourside Park and hold a sign or pitch a tent, or drive past and scowl and tell everyone to get a job.
...Whatever makes you feel better!
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More academics need to be as openly supportive of the Occupy movement. What are they waiting for?? Especially profs who are supposedly content experts on anti-oppression and get their students to read Foucault on the nature of power...
@cynical human,
No BS you speak. They've only been talking about it for like thirty years: postmodernism (the failure of imagination and action).
Seriously though, the academy has a lot to answer for...
For some reason it seems like academics [i]think[/i] they should be neutral and somehow lacking in bias. I think this might be rooted in the belief that science is somehow free of bias and an attempt by other disciplines to be more scientific for the sake of 'legitimacy'.
...Personally, I don't think it's possible. I also don't think it's desirable.
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