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Monday, March 31, 2008

Participation

In the next few days, we will add faculty emails so that you can sign in and participate.

1 comment:

HuJia said...

Orwellian, yes, and also a page torn directly from Gentile and Mussolini's play book, La Doctrina del Fascismo, who in the name of the "productivism" "consolidated" all citizens --now "producers"-- into 22 corporations in order to maximize efficiency and to manufacture consent, squash dissent, and shore up corporate hegemony. For who was "Il Duche" (the leader)without the backing of his corporate cronies ? No doubt the current A&S Dean, who seems incapable of finding any value in the arts and sciences except as means to fuel economic development, (see his piece in the Toledo Free Press: http://www.toledofreepress.com/?id=7462),
Small wonder then that a president who values "Extreme" (a favorite word of all fascists) Student Centeredness and "Mass Customization" (do note that Dell announced last May that it would lay off 8,000 workers, is largely abandoning mass customization to model itself more closely on HP! :
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18967391/)
would have 'tremendous confidence' in this Dean.

Here is Mussolini on Fascism (Excerpted from, What is Fascism?"

"... Fascism combats the whole complex system of democratic ideology, and repudiates it, whether in its theoretical premises or in its practical application. Fascism denies that the majority, by the simple fact that it is a majority, can direct human society; it denies that numbers alone can govern by means of a periodical consultation, and it affirms the immutable, beneficial, and fruitful inequality of mankind, which can never be permanently leveled through the mere operation of a mechanical process such as universal suffrage...."


And now on a more promising and hopeful note here is your daily Aung San Suu Kyi:

Peace, stability and unity cannot be bought or coerced; they have to be nurtured by promoting a sensitivity to human needs and respect for the rights and opinions of others...

Keep the blogs coming!