Cause the Dp's might shed some light on cats that don't know, but I should hope that the vast majority of cats on Okayactivist are aware of the type of socialization and indoctrination that happens in school.

To paraphrase (as opposed to quote, cause I know how many blackstar/reflection eternal/kweli zealots are on okayplayer)
Kweli,"If you tore down this wicked system, what would you build in it's place?" (l-fudge's "what if")

I still got problems with what they say on this song. Math is useful for more than just adding up dollars. If you want to build a physical structure you need to know math (among other things). Pyramids couldn't have been built on the fly. Science, same thing. American History, can tell you a lot about what it takes to take over nations and decimate people. Bronte, Dickens, Shakespeare - tell you how the common and the elite euro-american tend to think and what they respect.

Studying American, British, Western European culture from their perspective gives you plenty of weapons and ammunition when it comes time to debate. But in order to shed light on things like that, I believe you need to have a multiple perspective, but also realize that you are dealing with the dominant way of thought.

The information is possibly useful, but often in the instruction various moral lessons are reinforced. The protestant work ethic...

peace
k. orr

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