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A Skeptic Reads the Alumni Newsletter
I got my alumni bulletin in the mail the other day. I don´t think I am giving away too much about myself, am I? I mean, lots of people have been to university (-:
It´s amazing how very different our worldviews can be. The newsletter is chock full of economists and socialists and ´educators´ strategising to improve us with ´metrics.´ In a way, their hearts seem to me to be in the right place. In a way, they don´t. It is like one of those prints of little pictures making a big picture. Squint just the right way….and you see fascism. Hold it back to a regular view and you see what they see…success, leadership, progress!
We could all be of two minds I guess. Their worldview, which could be quite innocent, no that´s not the right word, but quite…something…is sort of….relaxing. I really believe that all the way down, or all the way up, most NWOists are True Believers. They think they are tinkering and helping and really making something for everyone. If that were the case, if they were *all* true believers, all I would be is a sort of cultural luddite, or a misguided idealist, who could only mumble about the lack of art in their vision, about all the pretty little cultural things they were tampling over…but it would all be aesthetic, or spiritual, no?
Unfortunately, the dark truth, I believe, is that they are not *all* true believers. In the corners, in the places of power, hiding in the open or in the shadows, are some who may know a little little more. Some who know that we are right where we see too much darkness or danger at the peripharies of their programmes. The ones who may be setting a trap… I don´t know. I am just an ordinary lady.
When I think of academics, and I am just a plain housewife, I think of how incredibly different a sociologist would have to be, from say, my strange romantic interest– the legendary Groethendik, the mathematician who went insane over defence funding of maths and just disappeared. How interesting it would be to ask both of these types my cold war challenge questions..(I prefer to ask questions than talk myself).
When I look through the notes I look at the photos of our ´policy makers´ makers and wonder, what are their private passions? Who are they in love with? What are their real stories? But then I realise that is unfair. Evreyone must be buttoned up at work, no? That is part of civilisation. Perhaps it is because their work can seem so strangely to touch on spiritual things– care of children, religion, war, marriage, that I maybe wrongly want to view sociologists and politicos through a different lens than say a medical doctor. Attention doctors: good work and I don´t care about your privare passions! But when a professor of education wants all infants in mandatory state care to achieve ´excellence´ I wonder about her in different ways. And I wonder if she ever felt the shadow of anyone standing over her, wanting those same things but for a different reason she cannot know.
oh well.
2012-08-23 14:54:37
Source: http://lavenderluck.blogspot.com/2012/08/a-skeptic-reads-alumni-newsletter.html
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