[Alumni-chat] What will the BOT do?

[Jack (jack1 at mac.com)]

Listen: it all comes down to the amount of unforgiveable debt a youth is saddled with when they (depart the initial system) graduate. The U.S. has got a lock on making sure that individualistic thinkers (the more individualistic, the more drawn to particular, and therefore, expensive, schools) are tagged with unavoidable debt. It's a simple, and effective, social control solution. My only pain lies in how many posts prior to this it's taken to lay this out. You want graduates to express freedom and individuality above and beyond the dominant paradigm? Do everything you can to release them of their governmentally-decreed financial burdens. jeezuz. Boomers didn't have to deal with this. The system saw that and adjusted accordingly to ensure that new inductees would be contained within the system. Who what where, conspiracies, no matter, that's the effective truth. 


>>Tell them to grow up and get over it.  We're experiencing the worst outbreak of unregulated laissez-faire capitalism since before the Great Depression, and if Gens X-Z don't have a better strategy than scapegoating boomers, they're hosed.
>No problem, I don't take it personally because -- as I pointed out -- it isn't a fair comment. All boats are being scuppered in an ebb tide.
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>I agree that there are ways to think and work our way out of these dilemmas. But I wouldn't underestimate the inequalities which have developed over the past 40 years. And it has been pointed out that the tuition price-tag hides the fact of millions in uncollected dollars which Antioch's current students cannot pay.
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>Alan