What To Make of a Diminished Thing
Please forgive this presentation of something akin to an "ars blogetica."
Paul's recent post, "Slaying the Two-Headed Dragon...,"points up a kind of fallacy as regards the reformation of the social management of large systems: when one moves towards a "critical" pedagogy one discovers that these systems are manifestations of the the very "evil" we have attempted to move against--the authoritarian state. It is only an evil from a particular orientation of course. The authoritarian state can surely be praised for many advances, even in the realm of humanitarianism. This impulse to rectify injustice for individuals while retaining the machinery of "blind injustice" is our moral paradox.
The disconnect here is that writers and educators like Paul (and I include myself in this as regards "the
Paul's recent post, "Slaying the Two-Headed Dragon...,"points up a kind of fallacy as regards the reformation of the social management of large systems: when one moves towards a "critical" pedagogy one discovers that these systems are manifestations of the the very "evil" we have attempted to move against--the authoritarian state. It is only an evil from a particular orientation of course. The authoritarian state can surely be praised for many advances, even in the realm of humanitarianism. This impulse to rectify injustice for individuals while retaining the machinery of "blind injustice" is our moral paradox.
The disconnect here is that writers and educators like Paul (and I include myself in this as regards "the
