Is this an outcome of the increasing need for co-optation into MarketWorld or a is MarketWorld a result? There’s much to explore here in the world of secondary and post-secondary education that is unexplored in this chapter.Īs a society - we need to revisit what we believe about education and schools: schools aren’t just for training future workers. Instead, according to Lukianoff & Haidt, schools are becoming more insular and resisting that which is “different” as just flat out harmful or wrong. His first case study of an idealistic young graduate student being co-opted into such economistic thinking as a means for making positive changes in the world provides a small glimpse into the changing beliefs about such education in our society.Īre schools just a way to train and future workers at all levels of the capitalist machine and indoctrinate them into economistic thinking? As Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt discuss in “The Coddling of the American Mind” - schools are becoming less of an environment where young people are exposed to a variety of ideas, taught how to think critically and independently and given space for intellectual experimentation. Business processes are being seen as the best solution for many other domains where they may not be exactly applicable. “Economistic thinking dominates our age,” says our author - this has been pointed out by plenty of other people. He presents his evidence as a body of case studies of individuals - and leaves out important details about what they might actually do to create real change. He’s got a lot of great anecdotal detail from his first-hand experience and his interviews - but it is definitely skewed toward the politically liberal elites. Most people, if not everyone, knows this - or maybe it’s just my good fortune for having pursued an undergrad degree in sociology.īased on the wide array of reviews of this book - so much hyperbole such “scathing” and “important” - it seems to me that many people fail to see it as “a good start” on a better book. ![]() The elites who are part of the power structure will work to co-opt and de-radicalize people, movements and culture. Surfing on this wave of credibility as a “whistle blower,” he rushes publish detailing how the wealthy protect their ability to continue increasing their wealth and how people are co-opted into this system - whether they are entrepreneurs, consultants or thought leaders. Our intrepid young author makes a speech that shocks all his colleagues. Our author has an epiphany - as many people do in their mid-30s - and realizes that the philanthropy of the wealthy was not addressing the root causes of the social issues they were trying to resolve. “The Winners Take All” (2018) is written by Anand Giridhardas - who was raised in a fairly affluent neighborhood in Cleveland, worked as a consultant and has circulated with social/economic elites most of his life. This can only result in ever-increasing socio-economic polarization. We live in a society where people at the top are encouraged to accumulate and hoard money - and then to use that money for power to manipulate laws and create conditions for them to continue to make even more money. She did not NEED the money - so why continue a business that was so contrary to her own values? Given the power and authority of women at that time, I imagine if she had tried, she would have been committed to an asylum. ![]() This is instead of halting production of the Winchester rifles and closing down the business. To avoid the wrath of angry spirits of the slain, and perhaps because she lacked the power, being a woman in the 19th century, Sarah Winchester commissioned continual work on her house to confound the spirits. Sarah Winchester lived in mortal fear of the horrors being caused by those weapons in mass killings of innocent people across the landscape of a country that promoted “freedom.” Sarah Winchester earned something like $10,000/minute without having to do a thing because of the pivotal role that those weapons served in the genocide that took place across the US West in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Take as an example - the Winchester Mystery House in San Jose, built by the widow who was the heir to the fortune of Winchester rifles. People who are making money at the expense of the common good are not ignorant about the effects they are having on the world around them. BOOK REVIEW: Philanthropy as the Winchester Mystery House of Our Age
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