re: #52 calochortus

Personally, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Wisconsin is going after teachers. There is an assault on education from the right ranging from the Texas school board’s rewriting of history to demonizing the entire educational system. Higher education does not escape the right’s attention either. I heard someone from the Hoover Institute a couple weeks ago say that public supported higher education is not important because the education only benefits the person educated and not society at large. This was incidental to the topic being discussed, so no one challenged him on it.

Really? An uneducated populace is entirely neutral to a nation’s well being?

Think about the wingnut’s fear of ‘social engineering’. Oddly, for people who preach self-reliance, they’re suspicious of foresight, planning, or thinking about how things will turn out, preferring to just rely on abstract principle and figuring it will all be fine.

Reminds me of kids who say they don’t use birth control because ‘planning’ to have sex means you’re slutty, or not really in love. In their minds, it’s better to just be overwhelmed by the moment, even though this devotion to pure romance may lead to pregnancy or STDs.