Enforcement & Compliance

Posted on October 9, 2007
Filed Under Politics, Reading |

The hard right has a seamless system in place for enforcing compliance. Are you a working class family that dares speak out about the lack of health insurance? You will be slimed & harassed. Are you an Iraq veteran who dares disagree with the War Party? You will be called a “phony soldier” & compared to a suicide bomber. And lunatics chase you home & threaten to beat you up because you have a Kerry/Edwards bumpers sticker on your car from the last election. That is just this week. The reason the radical right cannot stand the academy is that the academy still manages to suggest, however meekly, that we think about the nature of authority & obedience. In response, a panoply of organizations relentlessly cage & frame the discussion of higher education.

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2 Responses to “Enforcement & Compliance”

  1. bdr on October 9th, 2007 9:34 am

    I’m glad the academy thinks about the nature of authority and obedience.

    I wish elected Democrats did too.

  2. Peter on October 9th, 2007 10:51 am

    MORNING SKY

    A small boy with a book
    entitled ‘I And Its Derivatives’
    resting near dripping water
    it could have been a solution

    whether through remembering
    or forgetting we do the truth
    as enduring injustice

    but which of us feels free
    enough to be harvested
    muscled out of his own willfulness
    by the pink way it all comes on

    double-wrapped and gauzy
    slipping it to the body of the world
    with our child’s rendition of a soul?