That is the real goal of education, to teach some selected humans to lead, but mostly to teach them to follow, at varying levels of supervision.
Paul Fussell teaches us that the middle class human is the least free of all.
The working class are regimented at work but once they are off the clock, their time is their own. The rich live largely off capital, which is famously indifferent to its investors.
The middle class sell their qualifications, their projection of steadiness and competence, and so can never get away, lest a client see or a boss find out.
Both the working class and the managerial class have to work, consume, and behave correctly in general or something unpleasant happens to them. A small minority may get off the hook if they posses unusual luck or talents. If that minority becomes too numerous the existing social order collapses and a new one is formed. Hence the hippies were followed by Reaganism, plutocracy, endless war.
That is the real goal of education, to teach some selected humans to lead, but mostly to teach them to follow, at varying levels of supervision.
Paul Fussell teaches us that the middle class human is the least free of all.
The working class are regimented at work but once they are off the clock, their time is their own. The rich live largely off capital, which is famously indifferent to its investors.
The middle class sell their qualifications, their projection of steadiness and competence, and so can never get away, lest a client see or a boss find out.
Both the working class and the managerial class have to work, consume, and behave correctly in general or something unpleasant happens to them. A small minority may get off the hook if they posses unusual luck or talents. If that minority becomes too numerous the existing social order collapses and a new one is formed. Hence the hippies were followed by Reaganism, plutocracy, endless war.