Epistemological violence in America

Let’s get down to brass tacks and address a core issue we’ve neglected thus far: the racket run by corporate businesses and universities. A great many of our fellow peons are caught in a nightmarish debt trap that began when they were impressionable youth and will dictate the rest of their lives. This person is, on average, intelligent, relatively young, idealistic, single and without child; in other words, they are unencumbered by the trappings of a typical middle age, suburban lifestyle that is largely devoid of social and physical mobility. Yet the peon remains unable to exercise their autonomy and mobility because these things are rendered null and void by the crippling debt they began to accumulate as students, as well as the inadequate preparation given to gain meaningful employment. By the time they finish school and are ready to enter the workforce, the peon, in order to merely service their debt, is forced to find immediate and unsatisfactory employment. This type of work generally pays just enough for the peon to maintain some semblance of independence, which in turn lures the peon to compensate for their castrated mobility by seeking immediate satisfaction in the form of material goods and a lifestyle obsession that can be sated only by the accumulation of further debt. The peon is rendered unable to develop the skills and experience necessary to find better employment and becomes stuck in the lowly job for which they are over-qualified, uninterested and under-compensated until their spirit is broken, their aspirations dashed and they resign themselves to a vapid and inescapable fate. Thus they become the ideal corporate drone: docile, unquestioning and hopeless.

# posted by workplex @ 15:37