Never Trust a Corporation With Your Education
Thoughts From The Park Today
As I sat below a tree today I thought:
”Never Trust a Corporation With Your Education” — Why did I say that to myself?
A Corporation, by legal definition, is a sociopath: the CEO is legally obliged to make decisions one-dimensionally, based on shareholder value.
And what will maximize shareholder value in an education corporation is CLASS SIZE.
(And I don’t just mean the sizes of the lower classes in the wealth distribution…)
Whereas, on the other hand, what a parent wants for their child is individual attention, as much as possible, insofar as this doesn’t compromise teacher quality.
Parents running an education cooperative would vote to hire more teachers in many situations where an education corporation would seek to do as much business as possible, with as few teachers as possible, and that is what we see in corporate academia: Artificial scarcity of jobs and student debt producing ideological compliance of the poor in spite of the supposed upward mobility offered by the Maclean’s Top 10. (Another corporation.)
Hey, “The Enlightenment” called, they want their values back. The truth won’t set you free if you are shackled by student debt, as Chomsky explained. The truth won’t set you free if you’re a teacher threatened by UofT. And the truth won’t set you free if there are funders you can’t see.
The truth will never set you free without something more: activism, so get off your ass if you’re one of those deactivated, depoliticized, privileged members of the intelligentsia with a cushy academic job and show yourself in the public arena, devoid of paywalled content, with all eyes on the code: in the media sphere, on the news platforms readily available to faculty by default, right here on substack, or in ‘the public square’ proverbially or otherwise: uprise, academia, and speak your true voice, for your job has never been safer now that it is today with UofT fighting a losing legal battle against its own best-paying customers, in a dramatic capitalist act of hari-kari, for the entire world to see.
This is capitalism’s own undoing: just as the will to truth devoured Christianity from the inside, as Nietzsche explained, the will to profit will devour the corporate University; mark my words — reductivism and ideology breed suffering precisely because of what makes them more predictable: lower dimensionality.
MEANWHILE, IN COURT: https://www.facebook.com/adamgolding/posts/pfbid03C4WouuVrjM6dwmfX7YBibzT43Uzyp9AyCg6iHmahToWc7tpxvZpQMZtf8RiNmP9l