The title of this post is taken from a propaganda remix poster I have on my office door.
Counterpunch has been running a number of good articles about the recent targeting of Ward Churchilland, more generally, of academics pretty much anywhere to the left of Attila the Hun.
Carolyn Baker, writing about her students' future as cannon fodder and Mall-Wart cogs, observes,
Some of us who "profess" to have something to teach in higher education would like to make the demolition of these young psyches and bodies a little less traumatic by telling the truth about their world right now and teaching them how to think, question, problem-solve, and prepare for the increasingly hellish existence that their elders have allowed to evolve. However, when we do so we are called "terrorists", "subversives", "unpatriotic", and "criminal." The degree to which this development parallels the educational scenario of Germany in the 1930s cannot be overstated.
Then again, maybe I'm being unfair to Attila.
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Her face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, she sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of her feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm . . . . irresistibly propels her into the future to which her back is turned, while the pile of debris before her grows skyward. (Walter Benjamin, revised)
